News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books? by mbateman on Saturday July 10, 2010 @11:28AM (#1503777)
Yes, this is why I gave a long caveat, and tried to picked only the most accessible primary sources. If there's some work in particular in the list that you think is inappropriate, I could try to defend it.

I think that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is very mixed. Often (not always) the articles spend a lot of time making distinctions among many views, without adequately explaining any of them at an introductory level, and at the expense of any sort of broad view of the issues. So like most philosophy reading it's most useful if you're already in a philosophy course or something like that.

There are no comments on this comment yet.