Philosophy and Living
Good holiday reading in this sweeping new history of Western philosophy. It is the outcome of the author's course at the University of the Third…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy
Zeno and the Tortoise - How to think like a Philosopher
This is an original turn for a philosophy book. It takes a leading image or idea from 25 Western philosophers and expounds it as a…… Read More »
The Rediscovery of Wisdom
This is a technical book that seeks to place wisdom once more at the centre of philosophy, returning to its original roots not simply as…… Read More »
Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction
Lazily, I mostly review books chosen from preference. Human Nature after Darwin was an exception - an Open University text complete with chapter by chapter…… Read More »
On Belief
An erudite tour of contemporary belief systems that shows how pervasive beliefs still are and how consumerist our attitude to spirituality can be, especially at…… Read More »
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
A constructive book from a leading deconstructionist. In this book Derrida addresses the only too apparent tensions between refugee and asylum rights and the ethic…… Read More »
Philosophy in Classical India
The author is Spalding Fellow in Comparative Religion at Cambridge and has produced a remarkable book that brings the analytical approach to bear on the…… Read More »
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
This is an astonishing scholarly achievement, a collection of some fifty essays on Asian philosophy - Persian, Indian, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese and Islamic traditions. Each…… Read More »