John Leslie is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Guelph, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction is published by Routledge.
David Bohm and Basil Hiley worked together for twenty years and between them developed a very unusual approach to quantum theory. Bohm died in 1992, but by then the book was almost complete. It is a magnificent monument to one of this century’s finest and most attractive minds.
John Leslie comes to tell us that the end of the world is closer than we think. His book is no ordinary millennial manifesto, however. Leslie is a sophisticated philosopher of science, and the...
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