Can someone produce any actual reasons to become well read in philosophy?
From what I have read so far, from many different schools of thought, it seems that it's just a bottomless pit of speculation and argument.
Is there any real reason to read philosophy, besides trying to seem erudite, and if so what philosophical works would you recommend?
>Is there any real reason to read philosophy
This is a philosophical question.
>>7886020
understand the basics that everyone builds upon and it's like a key to unlocking all different kinds of thought
it's also good to understand why you think what you think.
start with the greeks.
yes yes very astute of you, philosophy has no practicable justification. here's a lollipop for your penetrating insight
it's fun
just from my own experience, philosophy found me rather than the other way around. I've always had a deep interest in philosophy even before i knew what philosophy was. It was not forced and happened naturally. It stemmed from a sense of uneasiness of not understanding my beliefs about various things, and diving into philosophy helped ease my despair. Of course it's a bottomless pit, there ultimately is no end-goal to philosophy i don't think. No nirvana to be reached. If you try to force it, I don't know if you will appreciate it.
>>7886020
to develop empathy for those you disagree with
>>7886045
My nigga
>>7886020
David Armstrong: "Universals and Scientific Realism" (1978)
Nancy Cartwright: "How the Laws of Physics Lie" (1983)
Paul Churchland: "Matter and Consciousness" (1984)
Donald Davidson: "Essays on Actions and Events" (1980)
Donald Davidson: "Inquiries Into Truth And Interpretation" (1984)
Daniel Dennett: "Consciousness Explained" (1991)
Fred Dretske: "Knowledge and the Flow of Information" (1981)
Michael Dummett: "Frege: Philosophy of Language" (1973)
Jerry Fodor: "The Language of Thought" (1975)
Alvin Goldman: "Epistemology and Cognition" (1986)
Paul Grice: "Studies in the Way of Words" (1989)
Carl Hempel: "Aspects of Scientific Explanation" (1965)
David Kaplan: "Themes From Kaplan" (1989)
Saul Kripke: "Naming and Necessity" (1972)
Saul Kripke: "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language" (1982)
Imre Lakatos: "The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" (1978)
David Lewis: "Counterfactuals" (1973)
David Lewis: "Philosophical Papers, Volume I" (1983)
David Lewis: "Philosophical Papers, Volume II" (1986)
David Lewis: "On the Plurality of Worlds" (1986)
David Lewis: "Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology" (1999)
JL Mackie: "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong" (1977)
Thomas Nagel: "The View From Nowhere" (1986)
Robert Nozick: "Philosophical Explanations" (1981)
Darek Parfit: "Reasons and Persons" (1984)
Hilary Putnam: "Mind, Language and Reality" (1975)
Hilary Putnam: "Reason, Truth, and History" (1981)
W.V.O. Quine: "Quintessence" (2008)
John Rawls: "A Theory of Justice" (1971)
John Searle: "Intentionality" (1983)
Ted Sider: "Four-Dimensionalism" (2001)
Bas van Fraassen: "The Scientific Image" (1980)
Bernard Williams: "Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy" (1985)
Timothy Williamson: "Knowledge and Its Limits" (2000)
>>7886169
Thanks
>>7886169
>Nancy Cartwright
>>7886020
If you ever wondered how should I act, or what does it mean to be a good person then you need philosophy. Ethics is the sole domain of philosophy. Trying to be a good person without philosophy would be like sailing a boat, not knowing where you were going, or how to get there, only that there was somewhere you needed to be.
>>7886020
I think it's fun.
Does anyone have that guide on how to start with the Greeks?
