Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners

Philosophy is not merely to be read about but something to be done. Doing it in a practical, incremental and regular way is the only way, ultimately, to find your own voice. This is the approach of the “Introduction to Philosophy” course in the Diploma in Philosophy offered by the University of London External Programme. Further information about the programme can be found on the Web (londonexternal.ac.uk). Guttenplan is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College in the University of London and editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind and of the journal Mind & Language, while Hornsby...