An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, (Paperback)

from neurodrew

A slim volume by a modern philosopher, surveying the application of philosophical thinking to problems of epistemology, morality, freedom and history. Roger Scruton is against the dominance of scientific explanations of all phenomena. This argument is not, given my scientific approach to life, pe...

from neurodrew

A slim volume by a modern philosopher, surveying the application of philosophical thinking to problems of epistemology, morality, freedom and history. Roger Scruton is against the dominance of scientific explanations of all phenomena. This argument is not, given my scientific approach to life, pe...

from pulpexploder

An old-fashioned Modernist bitter about the recent popularity of Postmodernism. He uses a lot of words to say very little that actually matters, despite making claims that his explanation of philosophy is "living it" rather than "learning about it." It's every bit as pretentious as the title make...

from dmmjlllt

"Modern Philosophy" is by far the better book. No reason whatever to read this if you have read or are going to read the other.

from logheuriat

I was born in 1982 and this book has completely changed my life. My only other introduction to philosophy had been an intro class in college in which I got a C because I couldn't stand to attend. The book could not possibly be more different than the material covered in that course or, just as li...