The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
by Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl
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The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy Explains show more difficult concepts in an easily accessible manner, and addresses the use and application of these concepts Proven useful to philosophy students at both beginning and advanced levels show lessTags
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Not always easy to parse--these are philosophers not poets. But always thought-provoking and insightful.
This book helps keep me grounded on isms, arguments, counter-arguments, reasoning and its limitations. I find it more and more useful as time goes on as and I try to learn more about philosophy and thinking.
Basically a really nice textbook and nothing more. A bit too dry if you want to read it for fun.
Rather simplistic even for popular philosophy, although probably good for reference
nice, but one might have to actually understand philosophy before being able to meaningfully navigate this book. probably wholly worthwhile as a companion to a beginning philosophy class or proseminar.
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Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over twenty books including How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (2018); A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World (2018); The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World (2017), and The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments show more (2010). He was the founding editor of The Philosopher's Magazine and has worked with the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Prospect and Aeon, and makes regular appearances on radio and television. He is Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. His website is www.microphilosophy.net. show less
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