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something we must try to judge for ourselves. An intelligent judgment will require considering and testing each of the

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In your writings you often deal (as you mentioned yourself earlier) with an important philosophical concept, namely ‘truth’. What is your definition of ‘truth’? Many of our readers would be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is such a thing as ‘absolute truth’?

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This book reads like a supplementary textbook for an introductory philosophy class, in that it's not detailed or deep enough to be a primary textbook but also not casual or light enough to be a popular introduction to philosophy. It is a bit too heavy for the layman, for whom this book was intended, but too shallow for those with a decent understanding of the subject. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy ([1994] 2015), 3rd ed. – compiled whole-handedly. ISBN 0-19-211694-0. proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my

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He is a patron of Humanists UK (formerly the British Humanist Association), and when asked to define his atheism, he said he prefers the label infidel over atheist: Concrete Examples – You’ll get practical advice illustrated with examples of real-world applications or anecdotes. Who am I? What is the world? Does god exist? Do I have a free will? These are questions every single one of us has asked himself in the course of his life: some only to consider them as unimportant and forget about them, others countless times, dwelling on possible answers and becoming more and more fascinated with them. If you are one of the latter - and I certainly am - this is a book for you. What's the point of a philosophy book presenting complicated subjects if the author can't even explain them well or in a simple way? doesn’t that have to include mental events like deciding and choosing? And if my choices are caused, then aren’t

This is a wonderfully stimulating, incisive and -- the word is not too strong -- thrilling introduction to the pleasures and problems of philosophy."--John Banville, The Irish Times

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I think David Hume stands head and shoulders above anyone else. I still think he’s the greatest philosopher Britain has produced and one of the great world philosophers. After that I would say Wittgenstein. Before continuing with a more detailed description of the book's contents, let me warn those of you who want to read this book passively, consuming its contents like the superficial plot of a bad work of fiction: This will simply not do. There is a reason the book's title is "Think". You really have to! Well structured – You’ll find this to be particularly well organized to support its reception or application. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries

When I was given a book called Think just before I came to Oxford, I was a little offended. Philosophy, I had figured, was one area where I could confidently claim to know the basics, and I felt that an introductory book would have been too simple and not interesting enough for me. But since Think had the advantage of being a small book with large words, I gave it a shot. For beginners – You’ll find this to be a good primer if you’re a learner with little or no prior experience/knowledge. a b "Moral Anti-Realism > Projectivism and Quasi-realism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Archived from the original on 1 May 2020 . Retrieved 27 October 2019. Truth (1999) (edited with Keith Simmons) – from Oxford Readings in Philosophy series. ISBN 0-19-875250-4. I retain my 3-star rating because well-read philosophiles won't find anything new or challenging while neophytes will need a supportive reading environment (instructor/classmates). In short, it might be a bit too "hard" for an introduction but not hard enough for more advanced students.

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Essays in Quasi-realism (1993). – a defence of quasi-realism as applied to ethicsISBN 0-19-508041-6 and ISBN 0-19-508224-9. Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning. the size increases; it becomes liquid and hot; you can hardly touch it, and if you strike it, it noFirst and foremost, I have to state what this book is not. It is not a casual, breezy introduction to philosophy along the lines of Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy. It is also not an abridged history of western philosophy tracing the most significant arguments put forth by the great philosophical thinkers of yore. This is very much a book about doing philosophy; it tries to teach you how to think logically and systematically about some of the big questions that are central to our existence by showing you how some of the great philosophers of the past have done it. Your experience with this book will depend on what you bring to it much more than it will on the contents of the book itself. It expects you to actively engage with the material as you go along much like you would with a textbook. With that out of the way, let me begin with a discussion of this book's flaws and then move onto its strengths which, for me, redeemed this book from a 2 star rating.

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