"Another reason for studying philosophy is that it provides a good way of learning to think more clearly about a wide …"

"A further justification for the study of philosophy is that for many people it can be a very pleasurable activity. Th…"

"It is true that many of the problems with which professional philosophers deal do require quite a high level of abstr…"

"Some students of philosophy have unreasonably high expectations of the subject. They expect it to provide them with a…"

"What is philosophy? This is a notoriously difficult question. One of the easiest ways of answering it is to say that …"

"One important reason for studying philosophy is that it deals with fundamental questions about the meaning of our exi…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"