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Since R.M. Hare's "Language of Morals" is on the list, I recommend Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" should be on the list for any one who want to study Moral

Since R.M. Hare's "Language of Morals" is on the list, I recommend Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" should be on the list for any one who want to study Moral Philosophy today. Along with Popper and Kuhn's works on that list, read Larry Laudan's "Progress and its problems" and "Science and Relativism: some key controversies in the philosophy of science". This goes under Philosophy of Sciences.

igravious 9y ago
> Since R.M. Hare's "Language of Morals" is on the list, I recommend Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" should be on the list for any one who want to study Moral Philosophy today. “After Virtue” is a legit recommendation. > Along with Popper and Kuhn's works on that list, read Larry Laudan's "Progress and its problems" and "Science and Relativism: some key controversies in the philosophy of science". This goes under Philosophy of Sciences. I demur. Comparing two giants of the Philosophy of Science (nb: not plural) to a relative unknown. I would recommend instead “Against Method” (1975) by Paul Feyerabend or “The Sleepwalkers” (1959) by Arthur Koestler.
- no_identd 9y ago
  I'd recommend against starting with "Against Method". Instead, go directly for the 'sequel' both to Feyerabend's "Against Method" and to two paper/essay collections (both published in 1976, two years after his death) that essentially originated from Lakatos, although they contain numerous contributions, among others by Feyerabend, "Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences: The Critical Background to Modern Science 1800–1905" (edited Colin Howson) and "Method and Appraisal in Economics" (edited by Spiro J. Latsis), namely, "For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence" 'by' both Imre Lakatos AND Paul Feyerabend, which Matteo Motterlini painstakingly assembled from the drafts for the book (which Lakatos and Feyerabend both wanted to produce, but which never produced a finished result in their lifetimes, primarily due to Lakatos' unexpected death in 1974.) I say this because of what I personally like to think of as 'paraduality' in science which both Lakatos and Feyerabend discuss & address, but from 'opposite' ends. I put "opposite" in single quotes here because I find too difficult to phrase the point I wish to make, so I can only allude to it: Reading Feyerabend without reading Lakatos carries with it the same (and not just similar or the opposite) problems as reading Lakatos without Feyerabend does - and vice versa. The same applies to science itself, which kind of sums up the problem both of them approached, from 'different' sides. I thus find it rather helpful to read the entire matter chronologically 'backwards', starting with 'For and Against Method' and then going back from there.
  - igravious 9y ago
    Thank you for your in-depth comment. I did not mean to imply starting immediately with ”Against Method”, what I meant is that after exploring Kuhn and Popper by all means move onto Feyerabend. I do appreciate your suggesting Lakatos. I was under the impression that one had to read Feyerabend first, then Lakatos. The work by Lakatos I have made note of that came up in my travels is “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers”. Would you be able to recommend that text as well or are you sticking to the ones you have suggested? If I had to pick one I think you are saying to go with “For and Against Method[…]”† because it contains both sides of the coin. Thank you Oh random internet person for such helpful advice! † http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3629717.html http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3629717...
no_identd 9y ago
On the notion of Moral Philosophy, for a 21st century perspective (unlike, but not as opposed to, the 20th century perspective given by the list in question), I'd also recommend "Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought" by Alice Crary, a review of which one may find here: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/inside-ethics-on-the-demands-of-moral-thought/ https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/inside-ethics-on-the-demands-of-mor...

igravious 9y ago

> Since R.M. Hare's "Language of Morals" is on the list, I recommend Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" should be on the list for any one who want to study Moral Philosophy today. “After Virtue” is a legit recommendation. > Along with Popper and Kuhn's works on that list, read Larry Laudan's "Progress and its problems" and "Science and Relativism: some key controversies in the philosophy of science". This goes under Philosophy of Sciences. I demur. Comparing two giants of the Philosophy of Science (nb: not plural) to a relative unknown. I would recommend instead “Against Method” (1975) by Paul Feyerabend or “The Sleepwalkers” (1959) by Arthur Koestler.

no_identd 9y ago
I'd recommend against starting with "Against Method". Instead, go directly for the 'sequel' both to Feyerabend's "Against Method" and to two paper/essay collections (both published in 1976, two years after his death) that essentially originated from Lakatos, although they contain numerous contributions, among others by Feyerabend, "Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences: The Critical Background to Modern Science 1800–1905" (edited Colin Howson) and "Method and Appraisal in Economics" (edited by Spiro J. Latsis), namely, "For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence" 'by' both Imre Lakatos AND Paul Feyerabend, which Matteo Motterlini painstakingly assembled from the drafts for the book (which Lakatos and Feyerabend both wanted to produce, but which never produced a finished result in their lifetimes, primarily due to Lakatos' unexpected death in 1974.) I say this because of what I personally like to think of as 'paraduality' in science which both Lakatos and Feyerabend discuss & address, but from 'opposite' ends. I put "opposite" in single quotes here because I find too difficult to phrase the point I wish to make, so I can only allude to it: Reading Feyerabend without reading Lakatos carries with it the same (and not just similar or the opposite) problems as reading Lakatos without Feyerabend does - and vice versa. The same applies to science itself, which kind of sums up the problem both of them approached, from 'different' sides. I thus find it rather helpful to read the entire matter chronologically 'backwards', starting with 'For and Against Method' and then going back from there.
- igravious 9y ago
  Thank you for your in-depth comment. I did not mean to imply starting immediately with ”Against Method”, what I meant is that after exploring Kuhn and Popper by all means move onto Feyerabend. I do appreciate your suggesting Lakatos. I was under the impression that one had to read Feyerabend first, then Lakatos. The work by Lakatos I have made note of that came up in my travels is “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers”. Would you be able to recommend that text as well or are you sticking to the ones you have suggested? If I had to pick one I think you are saying to go with “For and Against Method[…]”† because it contains both sides of the coin. Thank you Oh random internet person for such helpful advice! † http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3629717.html http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3629717...

no_identd 9y ago

On the notion of Moral Philosophy, for a 21st century perspective (unlike, but not as opposed to, the 20th century perspective given by the list in question), I'd also recommend "Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought" by Alice Crary, a review of which one may find here: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/inside-ethics-on-the-demands-of-moral-thought/ https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/inside-ethics-on-the-demands-of-mor...