If only Boghossian's eminently reasonable book were required reading for every freshman considering entrance into the humanities...
Ars Disputandi
...lucid and effective ...
Times Literary Supplement
This is a great book for a seminar or discussion group. And its about time that someone wrote it. Happily, it was someone with Boghossians clarity, verve, and panache.
... Read moreGraham Priest, Review of Metaphysics
...this is an important book that should be widely read.
Philosophers' Magazine
This is a book that can be read in an afternoon and thought about for a lifetime.
Wall Street Journal
...a tour de force: subtle and originalbut accessible enough to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject.
Wall Street Journal
In both subject matter and execution, this book promises to become a small classic of philosophical analysis.
Choice
For all its sophistication and erudition, the writing is remarkably clear, free of specialized jargon, and accessible to nonspecialist readers.
Choice
...the book does a fine job of assessing in brief compass the sort of relativism/constructivism advocated by Rorty and his fellow travelers, and Boghossian's sophisticated and careful arguments against that Rortian view are often ingenious and invariably telling.
Harvey Siegel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 25/07/07
Boghossian has written an excellent book ... it contains relentless exposures of confusion, falsehood, and incoherence.
John R. Searle, New York Review of Books
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