How to Think Like a Bat and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy

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? 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.