Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

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To quote page 151: "To jump the gun a little, I am going to present a fair number of reasons against supposing that anything recognizable as religious belief is true. This is a good introduction to philosophical thinking and can serve as an effective starting point in your philosophical journey but only if you're deeply interested in the subject and you plan on reading some or all of the major philosophical works in the western canon.

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During his long career, he has taught at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Although it's titled as an 'introduction' to Philosophy, Simon Blackwell's widely acclaimed Think, is a deceptively mighty beast of a book, and it covers a huge amount of ground without dumbing anything down. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that ( . Knowledge and its reliability are the main issues that many philosophers try to find out some ways to reach certain definitions.anyone who manages to condemn double denim using John Locke has my vote fr but the writing and some parts were so so lovely and the ideas the everything ugh and yes! how we should understand the content of singular beliefs (that is, beliefs about some particular things, e. But Scanlon thinks that his view differs from expressivism in that, on his view, normative judgments are genuine, truth-apt, beliefs. But it's not clear, at all, how they would help the Cornell realist with accounting for what's special about normative ways of thinking -- which, I take it, is Blackburn's main concern in relation to the Cornell view.

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A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e. But even if the quasi-realist does deny this -- Kraut has a proposal regarding how to do this -- this should not have any impact on substantive commitments about the relevant area of discourse. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy received a positive review from the philosopher Mark Sainsbury in Mind. A committed realist won't be persuaded, but Horgan and Timmons suggest that this is quite alright, as their account gives us everything that ordinary ought-thought asks for.Berkeley also highlighted some difficulties faced by direct realism in his three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. But Dreier rightly insists that even obvious truths may be in need of explanation, and that practicality is a case in point. such an account deserves far more credit than he has standardly been awarded for a significantly modern position, most of which has mistakenly been credited to schopenhauer.

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By providing a panoramic view, the book's form also lays bare some of the fundamental philosophical ideas that connect these different themes.These times were surprisingly exhilarating, and I came out the other side, in some state that is different to the previous state.

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He begins by introducing a world in which nothing is certain, in which nothing the senses tell him can be trusted, because an Evil Demon has the power to deceive people through their senses. The existence of god is the topic of the next chapter, in which all the standard arguments for god are shown and evaluated: ontological, cosmological, first cause and design. But ethics is neither futile nor irrelevant, he assures us, but an intimate part of the nitty gritty issues of living--of birth, death, happiness, desire, freedom, pleasure, justice. This seems promising, although unlikely to satisfy Street, who demands an explanation for why we manage to track the normative truth as such, and doesn't allow for appeals to substantive normative commitments (e. Blackburn's rare combination of depth, rigor and sparkling prose, and his distinguished ranking among contemporary philosophers, mark Being Good as an important statement on our current disenchantment with ethics.Blackburn imagines a community of teenagers applying the word 'fat↓' to overweight people whom they disapprove of on account of their being overweight. In some cases we explain the relevant judgments without reference to the properties that they are about; in other cases we don't. This reread (Oct 2017) convinced me that my daily status updates from my first read merely reveal my inabilities as a reader.