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 (...)
April 25, 2008
Books
Moving the Soil
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?23 Questions from Great PhilosophersLeszek KolakowskiBasic Books, $20, 223 pp.
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