Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Proem
- The Examined Life Re-examined
- Trouble with Leprechauns
- On Why Philosophers Redefine their Subject
- Some Philosophers I Have Not Known
- The Roots of Philosophy
- Re-engaging with Real Arguments
- Can Philosophy Speak about Life?
- Congenital Transcendentalism and ‘the loneliness which is the truth about things’
- Philosophical Plumbing
- Beyond Representation
- Scenes from my Childhood
- Metaphysics and Music
- Philosophy and the Cult of Irrationalism
- Is Philosophy a ‘Theory of Everything’?
- References
- Notes on Contributors
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Proem
- The Examined Life Re-examined
- Trouble with Leprechauns
- On Why Philosophers Redefine their Subject
- Some Philosophers I Have Not Known
- The Roots of Philosophy
- Re-engaging with Real Arguments
- Can Philosophy Speak about Life?
- Congenital Transcendentalism and ‘the loneliness which is the truth about things’
- Philosophical Plumbing
- Beyond Representation
- Scenes from my Childhood
- Metaphysics and Music
- Philosophy and the Cult of Irrationalism
- Is Philosophy a ‘Theory of Everything’?
- References
- Notes on Contributors
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Impulse to Philosophise , pp. 233 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992