The Impulse to philosophise / edited by A. Phillips Griffiths.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [1992], ©1992.

viii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.

The examined life re-examined / Colin Radford -- Trouble with leprechauns / Martin Hollis -- On why philosophers redefine their subject / Stuart Brown -- Some philosophers I have not known / Frederic Raphael -- The roots of philosophy / John White -- Re-engaging with real arguments / Alec Fisher -- Can philosophy speak about life? / İlham Di̇lman -- Congenital transcendentalism and 'the loneliness which is the truth about things' / Frank Cioffi -- Philosophical plumbing / Mary Midgley -- Beyond representation / Anthony Palmer -- Scenes from my childhood / Bryan Magee -- Metaphysics and music / Michael Tanner -- Philosophy and the cult of irrationalism / Brenda Almond -- Is philosophy a 'Theory of everything'? / G.M.K. Hunt.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238)