Moving the Soil

Many books meant to serve as introductions to philosophy tend to have roughly the same effect as the average introductory undergraduate course in the subject: the student moves from puzzlement to confusion and then on to intellectual despair, all along growing more and more bewildered as to why anyone would have taken up this strange pursuit in the first place. Philosophy turns out to be a queer and unsettling enterprise: we demolish our most deeply held beliefs and...

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