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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By Martin Coton
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This review is of the Kindle version of this book. The content, book, writing etc - no complaints, plenty of reviews here will cover that.
HOWEVER, it just does not work on a Kindle.
Point 1 - The author constantly refers you to pages in the book - you can't search for these, the Kindle version has no page numbers. Bad.
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Unless you intend to buy the hardcopy and have the Kindle version for reference it's useless and hard to read.
I would not buy this for Kindle if I had the choice, and there will be more books out there that are the same.
HOWEVER, it just does not work on a Kindle.
Point 1 - The author constantly refers you to pages in the book - you can't search for these, the Kindle version has no page numbers. Bad.
Point 2 - Page formatting is poor, text quality is poor due to the need to try and see the width of a whole page.
I had to read this book with my Kindle rotated 90 degrees.
Point 3 - Graphics - the timelines made no sense unless you rotated the page 90 degrees and the selected the smallest font size to get it all on the page.
Unless you intend to buy the hardcopy and have the Kindle version for reference it's useless and hard to read.
I would not buy this for Kindle if I had the choice, and there will be more books out there that are the same.
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By S. Horrocks
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.
Sarah
Sarah
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By K. Roycroft
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.
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Excellent basic introduction
A wide range of ideas are presented succinctly and with balance. An excellent introduction to the subject. Well worth a read.
Published 1 month ago by Chris Cooke
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A fair map of ideas
I read this as a primer and reviser sort of exercise and as such it is a useful and clear introduction to the range of philosophical ideas which matter. Read more
Published 9 months ago by yoblair
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50 philosophy ideas
I bought this book for my son as he is interested in philosophy and was recommended to read this. He is very happy with it and said it gives food for thought. Read more
Published 10 months ago by chattykat
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Excellent Overview
I found this to be pitched at an excellent level for the layman - sufficiently detailed to be continually interesting, without any unduly esoteric patches. Read more
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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 12 months ago by knit2tog
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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 15 months ago by Onora
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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 17 months ago by B. Keegan
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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 17 months ago by Kishan P
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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 18 months ago by The Italian Job
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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
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