Philosophising - Charlton, William
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"Philosophers keep coming back to the same subjects; time, space, change, causation, consciousness, language, truth and goodness. This book offers a challenging new explanation as to why this might be: whatever we think about, we think about in two different ways, and we either confuse these different ways of thinking, or we imagine we are thinking of two different things. It advises philosophers to stop looking for new facts, and to think of their subject less as a field for research than as a form of literature that brings puzzling over its topics to life"--

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"Philosophers keep coming back to the same subjects; time, space, change, causation, consciousness, language, truth and goodness. This book offers a challenging new explanation as to why this might be: whatever we think about, we think about in two different ways, and we either confuse these different ways of thinking, or we imagine we are thinking of two different things. It advises philosophers to stop looking for new facts, and to think of their subject less as a field for research than as a form of literature that brings puzzling over its topics to life"--
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William Charlton was Head of the Philosophy Department at Edinburgh University, UK. He taught philosophy as a graduate student at Oxford, as a Lecturer in Mental and Moral Science at Trinity College, Dublin, as a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, and as a visiting Professor at the universities of Bucharest and Cluj, Romania. He is the author of fifteen books on philosophy, and eighty articles in philosophical journals.