A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton

A Little History of Philosophy



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Page: 261
ISBN: 0300152086, 9780300152081
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Philosophy is one of the most stimulating and important subjects there is. For a long time, most analytic philosophers held that the history of philosophy had little to do with doing philosophy. Why isn't studying the history of philosophy like a visit to a museum of outmoded ideas? If I buy 4 books now, I also get A Little History of Philosophy too. Why is Nigel Warburton: A Little History of Philosophy. Wow – Thousands of lines of armchair philosophy could be typed about this general malaise. A Little History of Philosophy, Nigel Warburton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. I really don't know much about philosophy, so when I got my hands on a copy of Nigel Warburton's A Little History of Philosophy, I decided to dig in and learn a few things. At the root of Planned Parenthood is an evolutionary philosophy taken to its logical conclusion that man is merely an animal in the process of evolving to his ultimate potential. The idea that braininess is sexy may provide comfort to philosophers, but their own subject refutes the delusion. Nigel Warburton discusses his latest book, A Little History of Philosophy, with Neil Denny. This is better than the original renwal, but the three sets are not the ones I was hoping for. For example, he lauds Bertrand Russell's attack on the cosmological argument (p. The history of early science doesn't usually inform contemporary science? The author, a secularist, does not bother to treat philosophical arguments for God's existence seriously.