Introduction
A New Dynamism for Philosophy
The following is the draft of a book written over the last two years, which extensively develops and integrates ideas that came out of my university studies during th 1970s. My aim in setting up this site is to seek a wider audience of readers with a serious interest in solving the problems of philosophy. I hope the text will stimulate you to offer your commentary and contribute to a discussion which will develop and strengthen the claims of a dynamic philosophy.
The aim of this book is to suggest some plausible and accessible solutions to some of the Western philosophy’s most persistent and perplexing problems.
Nothing very original here perhaps, but the approach will be novel and the implications far reaching.
Why is it that so many of the problems that philosophers have posed have proved so difficult and remained unanswered? Newcomers to philosophy are often lured to the subject with a few innocuous questions. “How do I know you exist?” or “Why does time run in only one direction?” are typical of the type that diverted me and other innocents away from the proper preoccupations of youth. The questions have a beguiling charm, are easily understood and demand no more than that we justify the most familiar and strongly held of our beliefs. And yet the effort to answer them has preoccupied and entangled the greatest minds, leaving most of us confused by their failures and frustrated by our own efforts.
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