fascinating book is “about the first stirrings of philosophical thinking among the Iron Age Greeks”. But perhaps it’s less about those first stirrings than the last gasps of philosophical thinking in our age. It reminded me of Stephen Hawking’s announcement that philosophy was dead because it couldn’t keep up with physics. The headline of a article in 2011 provided the epitaph: “Stephen Hawking tells Google ‘philosophy is dead’.” The physical universe may or may have
