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The Stone Audience has an unparalleled summary of contemporary philosophy. Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary school of thought was finally emancipated from its academic closet this year 2010, when "The Stone" was launched in The NY Times. First showing up as a web series, the column quickly captivated millions of viewers through its accessible study of universal subject areas like the nature of science, awareness, and morality while also probing more modern issues including the morality of drones, gun control, and the gender divide. The Stone Audience presents 133 important and influential essays from the series, positioning practically the entirety of modern philosophical discourse in the listener's reach. The audiobook, divided into four broad parts - philosophy, technology, religion and morals, and population - starts with some questions about the opportunity, history, and personal information of school of thought: What exactly are the functional uses of school of thought? Does the discipline, started in the West in old Greece with Socrates, favour men and exclude women? Does indeed the annals and analysis of school of thought betray a racial bias against nonwhite thinkers or physical bias toward the West? These questions and others form a groundwork for listeners as the audiobook steps to the next section, technology, where a few of our most immediate modern philosophical debates are occurring. Will artificial cleverness compromise our morality? Does indeed neuroscience undermine our free will? Will there be the best place for the humanities in a global where technology and technology appear to rule? Should the proof for global warming change the way we live or expire? In the book's third section, religion and morals, we find school of thought where it is at its best, sharpest, and most troubling - working through the quarrels provoked by competing moral theories in the face of real-life issues and rigorously dealing with familiar moral dilemmas in a fresh light. Can we've a genuine moral life without opinion in God? What exactly are the problems of moral relativism? In its final part, population, The Stone Audience profits to its origins as a community forum to encourage philosophers who are willing to engage directly, critically, and analytically with the affairs of your day, including financial inequality, technology, and racial discrimination. In immediately confronting occasions like the Sept 11 problems, the getting rid of of Trayvon Martin, and the Sandy Hook College massacre, the essays here disclose the energy of school of thought to help form our viewpoints on practically every issue we face today.
