The Evolution of Philosophy

When I was an undergraduate at Oxford, the philosophical atmosphere was dominated by ordinary language philosophy. Ordinary language philosophy thought that the aim of philosophy was to show why all these puzzling things are linguistic puzzles. For example, free will is a very important issue for philosophers. If one does introduce technical terms, one has to define them rather carefully in more familiar terms.I hope I have preserved that sensitivity as I have tried to define some rather important philosophical terms via more ordinary terms and more ordinary examples.