We all philosophize at times. What do we do when we philosophize? We think in a rather
concentrated deep sort of way. In so doing we do not call ourselves Philosophers it would be
rather pretentious of us if we did. Philosophers are those-generally in university departments
of Philosophy-who think and ask questions about what reality is made of what we know and
how we should behave. Philosophers are not fools but after two and a half thousand years they
have not come up with agreed answers to their questions that are any more useful or certain
than thinkers who do not call themselves Philosophers. Many of those who do are still caught up
in the thought-forms of theology all are in pursuit of a lost cause except those who write
what might be written by thinkers in other domains. Is it not time to admit that there is
nothing very special about Philosophy?Dr. Swatridge studied Theology and Philosophy at the
University of Nottingham.Since 1998 he has been a visiting lecturer in critical thinking and
theart of argument at the universities of PANNONIA (Veszprém) SZEGED PÁZMÁNY PÉTER and
KÁROLI GÁSPÁR (Budapest) and ESZTERHÁZYKÁROLI (Eger) in Hungary and at institutions of
higher education in Poland(Krosno) and Petru Maior University (Târgu Mures) in Romania. His
longstandingbase has been MISKOLC UNIVERSITY in North-Eastern Hungary where he teaches in the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His previous booksinclude AN OXFORD GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT
AND CRITICALTHINKING (Oxford University Press) A COUNTRY FULL OF ALIENS and TRANSYLVANIA
TRUTH MYTH PERSPECTIVE (both published byCorvina Books Budapest).
