Review of The Measure of Things–Humanism, Humility and Mystery. By David E. Cooper [Book Review]

Philosophy:399--403 (forthcoming)
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This rich, subtle and hugely ambitious book might also have been called “why (and how) metaphysics matters”. Cooper's themes are the tensions implicit in the relation of contingent human beings to the world and the implications of those tensions, and of putative means of their.

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