Introduction

Abstract

If you went to a driving school, you might well expect to be taught about the highway code and some basics about car maintenance, but what you’d expect to spend most of your time doing would be actually learning to drive. If you pick up an introduction to philosophy or enrol on a philosophy course, however, you’ll find that you spend a lot of time being presented with philosophical arguments but very little time, if any at all, learning how to actually philosophise. The presumption seems to be that to do philosophy, you just have to dive into some of it and find your way around yourself.