Reviews for Philosophy A Very Short Introduction

The average rating for Philosophy A Very Short Introduction based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-17 00:00:00 Thomas Buckley Now I know why, when I was undergrad, this really cute math major openly laughed at me when she saw me reading Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction. We'd been flirting, before the traumatic event. How do you rate these things? They're useful, accomplished, properly academic, written by experts. We are, most of us, specialists and not generalists. As much as I'd like to be able to know a little bit about everything, the government is only willing to pay me to read a selection of fiction and poetry and bullshit theory, not to indulge my wide-ranging intellectual interests. So I like these books. You get accurate information about a huge range of subjects. Why did I read the Philosophy entry in the series? Because I wanted to see what it was like to encounter one of these when one knows a decent amount about the relevant area of study. I did not like the book. It is fine for what it is, but makes for a tremendously bizarre reading experience. While I like the series--though I haven't read many of them but intend to, soon--something about the bizarre experience I had reading this entry leads me to believe that the very short introductions to areas a bit more precisely defined and narrowed down than PHILOSOPHY or MATHEMATICS might be the way to go.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-03 00:00:00 Jamie Gross A rather fine read. Though I've read a lot of philosophical literature, this rather short work, taught me a lot and gave me a few ideas about future essays.