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100	1		_aFrayn, Michael
245	1	4	_aThe human touch : _bour part in the creation of a universe _c/ Michael Frayn
250			_a1st U.S. ed
260			_aNew York _b: Metropolitan Books _c, 2007.
300			_a505 p. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2006 by Faber and Faber"--T.p. verso.
504			_aIncludes biographical references (p. 423-483) and index.
520	3		_aWhat do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Playwright and novelist Frayn takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives. Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no one to count them? With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work of philosophy sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. Our contact with the world around us, Michael Frayn shows, is always fleeting and indeterminate, yet we have nevertheless had to fashion a comprehensible universe in which action is possible. But how do we distinguish our subjective experience from what is objectively true and knowable?--From publisher description
650		0	_aPhilosophical anthropology
650		0	_aCosmology
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