> Incidentally, it did not escape my notice that medieval philosophy appears nowhere on this list. A more careful reading will show that Anthony Kenny's Mediev

> Incidentally, it did not escape my notice that medieval philosophy appears nowhere on this list. A more careful reading will show that Anthony Kenny's Medieval Philosophy appears in two different positions on the list, under Histories of Philosophy and under Electives. There's also another medieval text listed which I'm not familiar with that includes readings from the familiar trifecta of Aquinas, Augustine, and Scotus among others. > If we consider ideas, it is only because we are trying to determine if they're true and no other reason. I hope this is a definitional quibble (a poorly thought out one, I think) about what it means to be doing "philosophy" and not literally a statement of what you believe to be true. If we observe fallacious or false ideas popping up in literature or culture it's normal to do some work trying to understand the thinking that brings those about. That is work that has nothing to do with determining those ideas' truth or falsehood, which we've already decided upon.