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Wikipedia great for some subjects, but is simply awful for philosophy. I'd stay far, far away from it.

• crazygringo 6y ago
  Is Wikipedia great for learning philosophy? Of course not, no better than it would be for learning math or physics. But it's unsurpassed for learning what all the kinds of philosophy are, for getting a sense of all the stuff that's out there. Simply because any "philosophy" intro text you buy, no matter how broad, will ignore huge swathes of it. Wikipedia really is the best place to get an initial "lay of the land" I'd say. From there you can move onto survey texts in a particular subfield you've identified, then drill even deeper into Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles, and then make your way to primary texts.
  • new_guy 6y ago
    It's really not. If you value learning at all stay away from wikipedia. It's garbage.
    • crazygringo 6y ago
      Could you eludicate? What precisely is "garbage" about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy I really can't think of a better or more complete way to get a quick wide-ranging overview.
• mvanga 6y ago
  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is pretty fantastic. They have a lot of articles summarizing debates as well, which I find very useful. Example: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/
  • pmoriarty 6y ago
    It's good for Analytic philosophy, but not for Continental philosophy.