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• Title:Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
  
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• Author/Creator:Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Pantheon, [2014]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: B395 .G4435 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Plato--Influence.
  Philosophy--History--21st century.
  Imaginary conversations.
  
• Description:459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher's depth and a novelist's imagination, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and child-rearing to morality and the meaning of life--by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he encounters the modern world. By reviving the Platonic art of the dialogue for the 21st century, she demonstrates that the questions he first posed continue to confound and enlarge us"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-444) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780307378194 (hardback)
  0307378195 (hardback)
  9780307908872
  9780307456724 paperback
  0307456722
  
• Contents:Man walks into a seminar room
  Plato at the Googleplex
  In the shadow of the Acropolis
  Plato at the 92nd Street Y
  I don't know how to love him
  xxxPlato
  Socrates must die
  Plato on cable news
  Let the sunshine in
  Plato in the magnet
  Appendix A. Socratic sources
  Appendix B. The two speeches of Pericles from Thucydides' The history of the Peloponnesian War
  Glossary.