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In this sequel to Seeking Meaning and Making Sense (2008) John Haldane explores the works and words of a wide range of philosophers, scientists, artists and cultural movements including figures from the Scottish Enlightenment (David Hume, Thomas Reid, James Wilson, William Turnbull, JF. Ferrier) and contemporary philosophy (Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas Nagel, Hilary Putnam, Scruton, Taylor), from the encounters between science, ethics and religion (Stephen Gould, JBS. Haldane, Sam Harris), from English modernism (Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, John Tunnard), from popular printmaking, contemporary sculpture and wall-drawing and religious art.

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Critical acclaim for Haldane's earlier volume in this series: This volume provides further evidence that John Haldane is our finest contemporary philosophical journalist. No other recent figure has written as elegantly or as insightfully about the contemporary landscape of ethics, religion and the post-modern search for meaning. And surely no one other than Professor Haldane could use such materials as the Toy Story films and the British pantomime to gently instruct us about such weighty matters as Pope Gregory the Great's revolutionary teaching on religion and representational art. -- David Solomon, Director, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame There is a breadth to this collection that is highly impressive ... accessibility to an educated daily newspaper reading public is seemingly effortlessly achieved, without avoiding difficult concepts or argumentative precision. In this respect he is not unlike his great Scottish Enlightenment predecessors. -- John D. O'Connor, New Blackfriars

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John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs in the University of St Andrews. He is also a former Royden Davis Professor of Humanities at Georgetown University and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton.

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