> When I read philosophy at Oxford in the early 1980s there wasn’t a lot of talk about consciousness.
Is it really necessary to put your prestigious alma mater in the first line?
Is it really necessary to put your prestigious alma mater in the first line?
Not that I didn't find it interesting, just, I feel it could have gotten the job done cleaner.
I think it's crucially needed, as the volume of content out there worth reading is massive. Unfortunately, non-fiction authors are told to write in narrative form (narrative non-fiction) by editors because that seems to be what sells best and is most engaging.
On the other side are mathematical papers which QED and ibid their way to illegibility.
I might be biased though, I've enjoyed reading a fair few Will Self books.