Quote (Osirislives @ Tue, 16 Dec 2008, 00:30)
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I spent about 3,000 years in university, and I spent my undergrad, MA and 90%+ of a PhD (before I left for political reasons) studying philosophy, so I could go on all year; actually I could pretty much cover ground for all of those subjects. What kinf od philosophy do you want to read, apart from logic. Most texts in logic are loosely interchangeable, but they will cover different ground and they will not be at the same level. You might find some work by Kripke cool, dunno.
A start:
philosophy/logic:
* something by Willard Van Orman Quine; it doesn't really matter, because it's mainly on the same level. He's interested in questions of logic and language, as well as belief and meaning
*
Thinking About Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic, by Stephen Read. Tis book is really fun, and while its an introduction, it's one of the best books of philosophy that I've ever read
* something by Ludwig Wiitgenstein [his style changed a lot over time]: he's just plain awesome so it doesn't matter whcih of his books you read, and he's interested in showing why Russelian logical atomism is a pile of crap. I really enjoyed his
Philosophical Investigations* something by Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche: doesn't matter which text, but
Beyond Good and Evil and
Thus Spoke Zarathustra and
Ecce Homo are recommended. He's wild.
* something by Michel Foucualt: he's one of the best thinkers who ever lived in my opinion ... but he's boring ... try
Discipline and Punishment*
Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning [2nd ed/] by Kalish, Montague and Mar. It's probably like $90, but it's a good introduction with some stuff that gets beyond the elemntary stuff. I'm just adding it since you were interested in logic, and I thought it was half decent when I read it.
psychology:
*
Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud. The rest of psychology is pretty much a footnote imo. Oh and actually getting back to W.'s
Philosophical Investigations, he actually dabbles in psychology
mathematics:
* may as well read Euclid and Whitehead if you want to go old school
*
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning, by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, and Lavrent'ev. This is one HELL of a neat intro to mathematics, and it covers a lot more than just basics.
also of interest:
*
Readings in the Philosophy of Science, by Theodore Schick, Jr.. It's really cool/fun book and it's perfect for this forum/topic
Sorry if the selections are a shortlist, and sorry that some of the titles are rares/esoteric. I picked stuff that I found interesting, and I've read most of the basics, major texts, canon, etc.. I didn't recommend anything on infinity, because I've never read a good book on the subject.; however, the book I listed for mathematics discusses it at some points.
God luck with whatever you decide to read