The Philosopher at the End of the Universe [Paperback]

"'It's Schopenhauer and the will. It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The Matrix" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

New edition packed with good old-fashioned, high-octane, high body-count, alien ass-kicking, robot-wrecking philosophy! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

There is a widespread reawakening of interest in philosophy, however, many people are put off by a belief that it is difficult to understand. This entertaining but educational book shatters that myth by showing, for example, that if you understand Keanu Reeves smash, "The Matrix", you can understand Descartes. In "The Matrix", the world human beings seem to inhabit is not real, but a computer-generated illusion. This idea is essentially Descartes: what can we know? How do we know that everything is not really a dream? Or how do we know we're not being constantly deceived by an evil genius? This is just the beginning and amongst other things you'll learn about: materialism and dualism fom the Terminator films - "Egoism" from "The Invisible Man". Read this book and become be a veritable Jedi master of philosophy!

New edition packed with good old-fashioned, high-octane, high body count, alien ass-kicking, robot-wrecking- philosophy! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Mark Rowlands received a Ph.D in philosophy from Oxford and then went to work in the U.S for 7 years, teaching philosophy. Victim to too many parties, he decided to move to Ireland to do nothing except write philosophy and surf. Seven years later he moved to Devon, where he currently works as the Director of the Centre for Philosophical Social Sciences at the University of Exeter.

He is the author of seven previous philosophy books including The Body in Mind, The Nature of Consciousness and Animals Like Us.