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Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.
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Ben Dupré read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He was Children's Reference Publisher at Oxford University Press from 1992 until 2004 and, all told, has more than 20 years' experience of bringing complex and challenging concepts to the widest possible audience.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Studying for a psychology degree, one of our modules was philosophy. This book was fantastic to help me understand philiosophy, it gives you the basics in a readable understandable format, and gives you a good understanding of philosophy before you hit the hard stuff. All round this book made philosophy for me a pleasurable and understandable subject and spurned me on to read more. Had I picked up a philosophy text first i probably would have cried. Thank You Ben Dupre, you sold philosophy to me.
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63 of 67 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book presents the reader with 50 short and to-the-point essays on philosophy ideas. Dupre draws upon significant published works and discusses the meaning of them, also comparing the differences between older and newer studies. I found it to be well written with useful factual information, as well as specualtion on the thoughts and arguments that arise before and after a new idea is put forward. I was pleased to note that there is no hint of bias toward any particular school of thought, and empiricism, realism, dualism, naturalism, consequentialism...etc are all refered to in a relevant manner. I have little knowledge of philosophy but the essays reached out to me and I was able to understand them easily (and give them a lot of thought!). A wonderful starting point for students, beginners or anyone with a slight interest in how we think about life, the universe and everything.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fascinating - and more to the point, enjoyable - collection of 50 essays, each spanning 4 pages and accompanied with various sidepanels, quotations and notes. From slippery slopes to the prisoner's dilemma, from the cosmological argument to animal rights, Dupré brings a welcome clarity to questions that we should all care about. If you're looking for an accessible introduction to the ideas of Plato, Descartes, Hume and other influential thinkers throughout history, and if you don't know your consequentialist from your deontologist, this is a superb starting point.
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Kindle issue only
The author's name is spelled incorrectly on the cover of the kindle edition. Irritating.Any chance of amending this on my kindle please?
Published 13 days ago by knit2tog
Wonderful
For the student or the lay-reader, this is great as an introduction to philosophy. It addresses such issues as animal rights, ethics, religion, logic and meaning and so on,... Read more
Published 3 months ago by The Reader
Kindle version not worth buying.
This review is of the Kindle version of this book. The content, book, writing etc - no complaints, plenty of reviews here will cover that. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Martin Coton
I must be wired up different
I think this book is great at putting lots of different ideas out there and connecting them with others through time. Read more
Published 5 months ago by B. Keegan
NEED IT READ!
I am only a teenager,(I don't read extremely complex/ degree level books etc.) but this book is very easy to read and to understand. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Kishan P
Assume nothing!
I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or aspergers syndrome. I presume this means a great deal of confusion and anxiety about the world about me as this is how I feel. Read more
Published 6 months ago by The Italian Job
So that's what philosophy is all about
Before reading this book I had only the vaguest idea about what philosophy actually is, what its aims are, and what its present-day relevance might be ('virtually none', my answer... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Didier
A good introduction to philosophy.
This book is a good introduction to some of the main philosophical ideas that are out there. I bought this so I could think about some of the different concepts and ideas that are... Read more
Published 10 months ago by A Fairbairn
The six-month book!
This book should have taken me two days to read, but kept my attention for six months! Not a book for academic study perhaps, but a brilliantly written and entertaining book, in a... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Stephen H. Campbell
Great price, Great Content
This is a book for those who want an easy comprehensive introduction to Philosophy, ranging from the early concepts of Plato and Aristotle, to more recent Western thinkers such as... Read more
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