The Seven Mysteries of Life
by Guy Murchie | 
Against Method
by Paul Feyerabend | 
Bad Astronomy
by Philip Plait | 
Critical Path
by R. Buckminster Fuller | 
Synergetics
by R. Buckminster Fuller | 
Chance and Necessity
by Jacques Monod | 
Objective Knowledge
by Karl Popper | 
Creative Evolution
by Henri Bergson | 
I Seem to Be a Verb
by R. Buckminster Fuller |
The Foundations of Arithmetic
by Gottlob Frege |
Order Out of Chaos
by Ilya Prigogine | 
The Common Sense of Science
by Jacob Bronowski | 
Symbolic Logic
by Lewis Carroll |
The Social Construction of What?
by Ian Hacking | 
Farewell to Reason
by Paul Feyerabend |
The Rebirth of Nature
by Rupert Sheldrake | 
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
by Martin Gardner | 
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell | 
The Myth of the Framework
by Karl Popper | 
The Island of Knowledge
by Marcelo Gleiser |
Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, "50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know" introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.
