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by Simon Blackburn

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The author of the bestselling "Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy" offers a coherent, non-intimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy.

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Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to
approach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed themselves most forcefully on human consciousness.

Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, begins by making a convincing case for the relevance of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Plato, Hume, Kant, Descartes, and others have approached its central themes. In a lively and accessible style, Blackburn
approaches the nature of human reflection and how we think, or can think, about knowledge, fate, ethics, identity, God, reason, and truth. Each chapter explains a major issue, and gives the reader a self-contained guide through the problems that the philosophers have studied. Because the text approaches these issues from the gound up, the untrained reader will emerge from its pages able to explore other philosophies with greater pleasure and understanding and be able to think--philosophically--for him or herself.

Philosophy is often dismissed as a purely academic discipline with no relation to the "real" world non-philosophers are compelled to inhabit. Think dispels this myth and offers a springboard for all those who want to learn how the basic techniques of thinking shape our virtually every aspect of our existence.

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PERHAPS THE MOST unsettling thought many of us have, often quite early on in childhood, is that the whole world might be a dream; that the ordinary scenes and objects of everyday life might be fantasies.

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  • Title Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
  • Author Simon Blackburn
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Publication date 1999-10-14
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780192100245 / 0192100246
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.15 x 5.19 x 0.83 in (18.16 x 13.18 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00265286
  • Dewey Decimal Code 100

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  • Booklist, 10/01/1999, Page 309
  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 187
  • Library Journal, 09/15/1999, Page 86
  • Time, 10/04/1999, Page 108

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Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until recently he was Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1999 a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. His books include Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994), Ruling Passions (1998), Truth (co-edited with Keith Simmons, 1999), and the best-selling Think (1999). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.
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