# How to Think Like a Bat

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- Book: [How to Think Like a Bat](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-cave/how-to-think-like-a-bat) ([How to Think Like a Bat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-cave/how-to-think-like-a-bat.md))
- Authors: [Peter Cave](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-cave)
- Publisher: quercus
- ISBN: 978-18-4916-481-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

How do you know that you exist? What does it mean to have a future? Are you the same thing as your brain? What does it mean to be free? How can you know what knowledge is? A woman was advising her anguished friend, 'Be philosophical - then you won't need to think about it.' Well, being philosophical is sometimes taken to mean that you should adopt a resigned attitude to the world - a quiet-ism - but the study that is western philosophy, starting with the ancient Greeks and continuing today in universities, bars and cafes - even bedrooms - is far from quiet. Philosophers think - but not just that, for they think about thinking and they think about how we think about the world, about how we conceive of ourselves, about how we possess a sense of right and wrong, about how we find meaning in life (if we do). How to Think Like a Bat might not help you to think like a bat, but it will certainly help you to think like a philosopher. Smart, witty and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the subject by one of Britain's most engaging philosophical writers.