"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 …"

"Philosophy is an activity: it is a way of thinking about certain sorts of question."

"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…"