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As always when I see this kind of comment on HN: any references you recommend for someone who's looking to read some philosophy? (Eek, weird sentence. No awkwa
by mrkgnao 10y ago
As always when I see this kind of comment on HN: any references you recommend for someone who's looking to read some philosophy?
(Eek, weird sentence. No awkward grammar fixes welcome.)
- mrkgnao 10y agoI meant non-awkward. :(
- hyperpape 10y agoThis is a really hard question without knowing what your area of interest is. However, I find Descartes Meditations gripping for the way he poses the question of whether there can be any solid foundation for knowledge and the resulting skeptical worries (though his solution is somewhat disappointing). Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is also wonderful. If you find free will interesting, Kane's "A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will" is solid--it was the text a professor assigned when I ta'd for his course.
- mrkgnao 10y agoI'm very interested in math, and would say I'm fairly comfortable with abstraction (e.g. categorical thinking). I don't find philosophy of math or foundations very engaging, though. Thanks for the recommendations!