• “What we
have here is a work of genuine originality, shifting the parameters of
debate and introducing ideas that may at first appear improbable because
they are unexpected.”
• “Much academic philosophy, particularly
in the analytic tradition, is precise and logical, making incremental
steps within arguments that have been developed by generations of
thinkers. Yet the real impetus in philosophy has always been provided by
those who have not been afraid to challenge existing assumptions and
raise fundamental questions.”
• “So what of Scarborough? His book
is both challenging and disconcerting, in that it too seeks to shift
the agenda. ... He sets about using [a] new perspective in order to
re-examine traditional areas of philosophical discussion – ethics,
religion, free will and the relationship between mind and body.”
•
“He sets out to reincorporate ethics into metaphysics, getting beyond
Hume’s claim that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" and thereby
setting a question mark over much modern ethical discussion.”
•
“Those picking up this book, expecting it to offer a nuanced and careful
development of familiar arguments, comfortably edging academic progress
forward at a glacial pace, are in for a shock. It is not that sort of
book, but it deserves to be read more than once in order to savour what
it has to offer.”
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