Be wary, readers!

Most of the stuff in this book is stuff you should already be somewhat familiar with, in which case you may be able to recognise that he gets stuff wrong. Some times he gets things a little wrong-perhaps simply because he merely wants to get the general idea across-but sometimes he gets things very, very wrong. I’ve studies most of the philosophy he covers (including the primary sources), and his explanations frequently miss the point or flat-out contradict the original claims.

Go ahead and read this book if you’d like, but when his explanation of an idea makes you think ‘Boy, what a stupid idea; those philosophers/scientists/whatevers must have been idiots’, keep in mind that they probably weren’t. The author was. Sorry, Macrone, but you really screwed up on some of these. I especially hate your ridiculous bit about Aristotle’s three laws of thought. You messed that one up bad. See, there was this guy and he had a cat in a box…