If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is

Re:If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Real... by shanacarp on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:41PM (#11685289)

which would you recommend for a beginner to read. looks interesting

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Re:If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Real... by a_humean on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:41PM (#11686144)

I would check out Philosophy Bites, which is a podcast interviewing active research philosophers in 15-20 minutes about their topics.

http://www.philosophybites.com/

Check out Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is free and edited by active research philosophers on pretty much every major topic and figure.

http://plato.stanford.edu/

Naming and Necessity by Kripke is about reference and the causal theory of reference, but it assume a decent amount (in case that is what you were asking for specifically).

The Very Short Introductions series have some really good booklets if you want quick ways to jump into a topic.

A few other books:

B Russell The Problems of Philosophy. OUP (dated, but a classic general introduction)

Simon Blackburn Think. Oxford (nice general introduction)

Tim Crane The Mechanical Mind. Penguin (Nice introduction to phil of mind)

A J Ayer Language, Truth, and Logic. Penguin (dated, but a classic)

D Hume Enquiries

T Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Univ of Chicago Press

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Re:If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Real... by shanacarp on Thursday May 12, 2016 @07:18PM (#11687516)

Kuhn's been on my reading list for a while. I think my fiancé has a copy of Ayer around

Plato/stanford is just overwhelming.

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