/philosophy/ - Philosophy

>>1750

Why do you care? Do you even have a question you're seeking an answer to?

Two Dogmas of Empiricism by Quine, since we're in an age of blind scientism.

http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html

>>1750

Don't laugh but these two books will help get you started. They may seem childish but they will be a great help.

Don't be so enamored with what a particular philosopher has opined but become familiar with the tools of philosophy first.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0974531537?keywords=fallacy%20detective&qid=1445372075&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0974531510?keywords=fallacy%20detective&qid=1445372075&ref_=sr_1_2&s=books&sr=1-2

Different guy here. I am literally overwhelmed with the amount of philosophy literature - there seems to be no consensus on what to read, just a lot of voices screaming ro read everything. I don't have time to wander aimlessly through the shelves of a library . What are some good books that broaden your mind, but don't don't bore you to death?

>>2183

Do you have ANY questions? You can't come asking about "philosophy" and expect anything but fucking everything as an answer. You literally are asking about what you should read about asking.

If you have no questions, then just read anything. Literally anything. Read a couple pages. Does what you're reading interest you? No? Drop it and go read something else. Go to wikipedia and just start hopping from link to link in the philosophy page until you hit something that you actually find interesting and can give two shits about. We can't fucking make you care about anything, and if you have no question to ask we can't tell you what you would find interesting.

>>2183

http://www.amazon.com/Story-Thought-Essential-History-Philosophy/dp/0789444550/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445464096&sr=1-2&keywords=bryan+magee+the+story+of

If you're completely new this is a bretty good introduction to pretty much every major western philosopher, from the pre-Socratics to the analytics. It's $5.

>>2174

RationalWiki is a good beginners guide to fallacies. The rest of the site belongs in the trash, but the info on logical fallacies is pretty good.

>>2174

top lol, this conveniently ignores that slippery slope has a non-fallacious form as well and even slips in an argument about gun control

Sophie's World http://www.amazon.com/Sophies-World-History-Philosophy-Classics/dp/0374530718

>>1750

the writings of epictetus (the enchiridion first), marcus aurelius, socrates, plato( the republic in particular, since pretty much anything else you read is going to reference it heavily), Aristotle, in that order.

i recommend this order because stoicisim is pretty easy to understand, and pretty much everyone else is going to reference the works of plato, aristotle, and socrates so it would be good to read their works first so you understand what theyre talking about.

also you can read all of their works online for free http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index-Epictetus.html

theres also audiobooks available for these for free, either through youtube or librevox, but most are librevox and librevox has no standards for recording so good luck finding one thats you can stand to listen to. i will say that the apology of socrates is actually decent though.

>>3019

>>3021

we can post pdfs again? also paperbacks a shit, classics club is where its at

>>3023

Yeah m8

>>3017

Why would he read the Stoics before the Greeks?

>>1750

>>2183

http://plato.stanford.edu/

Think of it as a non-shit philosophical wikipedia. Do be aware though that it's written by actual philosophers who occasionally insert a little bit of bias. In particular it favours analytic philosophy.

>>3392

the stoics were greek you dingus. and i explained why to read it in that order in the very post youre replying to you illiterate gobswain

>i recommend this order because stoicisim is pretty easy to understand, and pretty much everyone else is going to reference the works of plato, aristotle, and socrates so it would be good to read their works first so you understand what theyre talking about.

>>2186

This. If you go to the sticky I think there's a link to a lot of philosophy ideas. Just start clicking. It'll give you broad explanations to each so it won't take too long to read through each one to get the basics of what each focuses on, if you find something interesting, hit Google and just keep reading about it.