Helped connect some sporadic lectures ive listened to. Time to start reading more source books.

The book is written very well and covers many different philosophers in an accessible way.
The ancient philosophers were fantastic and really fun to read about. In terms of more modern philosophy; the sections on Wittgenstein and the other philosophers on language and philosophy of mind were particularly good and highlighted to me that some other philosophers were kinda trash and seemed to be making up word games that used linguistic determinism to give their theories a whole set of terms that make them more dogmatic and difficult to falsify.
Or maybe I'm just too dumb to understand those theories. I definitely need to go through my notes on this book and re-read a few sections.

I'm looking forward to reading frontiers of knowledge

I felt like he glazed over some of the more complex thinkers for the sake of brevity, even though the book ended up being 585 pages. And I didn’t think the non-western chapters did much for the book