Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away

The British Humanist Association is proud to present the internationally renowned philosopher, writer, psychologist, and American Humanist Association’s 2011 Humanist of the Year, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, for a discussion on her latest book, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away refutes the assertion of some that philosophy is dead, and has no intellectual substance or future in this scientific era. In a witty and imaginative way, Rebecca will offer insight into the significant progress philosophy has made and why it is critical to our lives today.

In her book, Plato is resurrected into the twenty-first century and, naturally, embarks on a speaking tour in which he engages in a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a tiger mother; encounters the host of a right-wing news programme who denies there can be morality without religion; and discovers that in a world with Google, information can be sourced from the crowds rather than reasoned by experts.