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“... idealism, instead of giving an accurate account of the way in which he actually achieved it. Grayling and several of the contributors to the anthology explain how this happens. When modern philosophy cuts off our view into the world, it usually does so by arguing that we do not see the butterfly’s wing because we are only directly aware of our own ...”

“... Self-deception is a philosophical issue, but it would be hard to imagine Peter Strawson or A.C. Grayling writing about bourgeois false consciousness. Power doesn’t really count as a philosophical concept, if one leaves aside political theory; but even if it did, those who discuss it in the manner of Nietzsche or Foucault would be unlikely to qualify as ...”

“... real nature can be drawn from our specific conceptual scheme. Such claims are attacked in Dr Grayling’s book. In his own book, Strawson does not try to answer such criticisms, but neither does he give in to them. In a bold manner, he turns away from Kant and towards Hume, whose ‘naturalistic’ way with Scepticism he now adopts and ...”

“... it apart from Dawkins’s The God Delusion, Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great and A.C. Grayling’s Towards the Light. Without even setting out to do so, Wilson’s book refutes the shop-soiled myth that freedom, having struggled bravely out of the Dark Ages into the bracing air of Western Enlightenment, is now at risk of having its stately march ...”