Why can't we think straight about the big issues that face our
society? Why are we taken in by the phony arguments of populists
and scammers? Where are the philosophers hiding when we need them
to tell us what makes sense? They are hiding because they have
nothing to say. The airy-fairy answers offered by writers of
footnotes to Plato were wrong two thousand years ago, and they are
still wrong now. All this time, we should have been listening to a
different but equally venerable branch of matter-of-fact philosophy
pioneered by the much-maligned philosopher Epicurus. His ideas were
suppressed in ancient times as heretical, but the development of
the theory of games and decisions makes it timely for those of us
who care about science to revive his style of thinking-not just
about the world around us but about ourselves as well. The price of
transferring our allegiance to Epicurus and his modern followers is
that we can no longer enjoy the luxury of being told what we want
to hear. It would be nice if we were really equipped with a hotline
to a metaphysical world of transcendental ideals, but the truth is
that we are just the flotsam left behind on the beach when the
evolutionary tide went out, and we have to get real about what will
and will not work for our imperfect species before it is too late.
This book is an attempt to point the way. It has no equations and
very little jargon; nor does it pull any punches, either in
explaining how game theory works or in exposing the follies of
famous metaphysicians.
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