How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the
world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning,
and value - how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it
is in the physical universe, made up of nothing but physical
entities such as electrons and quarks? How can anything be of value
if everything in the universe is, ultimately, just physics? In Our
Fundamental Problem Nicholas Maxwell argues that this problem of
reconciling the human and physical worlds needs to take centre
stage in our thinking, so that our best ideas about it interact
with our attempts to solve even more important specialized problems
of thought and life. When we explore this fundamental problem,
Maxwell argues, revolutionary answers emerge for a wide range of
questions arising in philosophy, science, social inquiry, academic
inquiry as a whole, and - most important of all - our capacity to
solve the global problems that threaten our future: climate change,
habitat destruction, extinction of species, inequality, war,
pollution of earth, sea, and air. An unorthodox introduction to
philosophy, Our Fundamental Problem brings philosophy down to earth
and demonstrates its vital importance for science, scholarship,
education, life, and the fate of the world.
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