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Wisdom, Information, and Wonder

by Mary Midgley
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In this book one of Britain's leading popular philosophers tackles a question that is at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for?

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Book Details

Published
May 9, 1991
Publisher
London ; Routledge, 1991.
ISBN
9780203003879

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