The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Now Know about Science, History and the Mind.

Grayling, A. C.

ISBN 10: 024130458X / ISBN 13: 9780241304587

Published by Viking Penguin, London, 2021

About this Item

Paperback octavo, very good condition, tiny scuff base spine, minor edgewear, autograph (author's owner's written dedication title page). 414 pp. This fascinating survey by philosopher A. C. Grayling is a remarkable history of science, life on earth, and the human mind itself. More knowledge than ever before has been revealed. But how far does it so far reveal the truth regarding science, history and the mind? The author has written a compelling book with verve, clarity and knowledge, to try and answer undiscovered questions about knowledge and truth.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Now Know about Science, History and the Mind.
• Publisher: Viking Penguin, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 024130458X
• ISBN 13: 9780241304587
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st p/b (Australian printing) ed.
• Seller catalogs:
  • PHILOSOPHY & SKEPTICISM

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Synopsis

In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just five per cent of the universe, pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored, and the new neurosciences of mind and brain are just beginning.

What do we know and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever.

Best-selling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks to answer them in three crucial areas at the frontiers of knowledge: science, history and psychology. In each area he illustrates how each field has advanced to where it is now, from the rise of technology to quantum theory, from the dawn of humanity to debates around national histories, from ancient ideas of the brain to modern theories of the mind.

A remarkable history of science, life on earth and the human mind itself, this is a compelling and fascinating tour de force, written with Grayling's verve, clarity and remarkable breadth of knowledge.

About the Author

Professor A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.