JULIAN BAGGINI's books include the Sunday Times bestselling How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy, The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher?, Freedom Regained, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick, Welcome to Everytown, and the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, all published by Granta Books. He has written for, among others, the Guardian, the TLS, the Financial Times and Prospect, and for other magazines, academic journals and think tanks. His website is julianbaggini.com.
If more philosophers wrote with the power and elegance Julian Baggini achieves in this book, more of us would learn to think like them. Well, now we can! -- Richard Holloway A welcome balm. Julian Baggini writes with clarity and humour. And most importantly, he doesn't get bogged down in theory but offers practical instructions on how to think and question, more constructively -- Ritula Shah An urgently needed guide to clear thinking, brought to life by a cast of our finest philosophers and illuminated by his gentle, humane, and accessible writing. Essential reading, both for making sense of a confusing world, and for living your everyday life. I'll be returning to this brilliant book again and again -- Anil Seth