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[Anonymous No.15139297]

If I'm interested in modern philosophy from Quine and onward, do I really have to read every philosopher prior?

I'm currently at Hume and while he gets a lot of things right most of the stuff is simply outdated and feels like a waste of time to read

[Anonymous No.15139385]

>>15139297
>do I really have to read every philosopher prior
No, definitely not.

+ Intro to philosophy: 'The Problems of Philosophy' by Bertrand Russell.
+ Intro to positivism: 'Language, Truth and Logic' by A. J. Ayer.
+ W.V.O. Quine: 'From a Logical Point of View' - https://ia800603.us.archive.org/14/items/FromALogicalPointOfView/QuineFromALogicalPointOfViewText.pdf

[Anonymous No.15139415]

Depending on what area of analytic philosophy you want to study, different historical writers are useful.

[Anonymous No.15139419]

>>15139297
Start with Dianetics and take it from there.

[Anonymous No.15139430]

>>15139297
Start with the greeks.

[Anonymous No.15139434]

>>15139297
Are you familiar with Julia Galef?

[Anonymous No.15139443]

>>15139385
repulsive subhuman

yes, read everything that you can, don't be like all of the US 'philosophers' circle jerking each other and 'inventing' ideas from Plato (but in a much worse and shallow manner)

[Anonymous No.15139451]

>>15139385
Thanks anon, exactly what I was looking for

[Anonymous No.15139642]

>>15139443
>>15139443
this neet thinks he's superior to modern academic philosophers because he's read more ancient greek and medieval scholastics. If he tried to have a conversation with an actual philosopher he would utterly embarrass himself and he would cope with "b-but they havent' even read all of plato in the original greek", this is why he's so angry and why he insists on "starting with the greeks" being the only way despite being unable to provide any actual good reasons for this. many such cases.

[Anonymous No.15140044]

>>15139642
kek this was me until I went to uni and had to actually read relevant contemporary philosophy

[Anonymous No.15140575]

>>15139415
source?

[Anonymous No.15140605]

>>15140575
wait ignore this I just found it. fuck this anime should be a fucking hentai already

[Anonymous No.15140614]

>>15139385
>Intro to philosophy
>Bertrand Russell

[Anonymous No.15142124]

>>15140614
What wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.15142191]

>>15139385
Hahaha analytics are so fucking depressing jesus christ, it's funny until you realize people actually let themselves be limited by this closed-minded cult

[Anonymous No.15142700]

>>15139297
>philosophy
>outdated

[Anonymous No.15142716]

>Hume and while he gets a lot of things right
You already failed at philosophy. Read the Bible

[Anonymous No.15142720]

Speaking from personal experience, I was initially only interested in 20th-century philosophy: specifically, the phenomenological tradition. What I found is that the more I learned about modern philosophy, the more I became interested in the Greeks and the history of philosophy more generally. When you start to take even one thinker seriously you end up looking backwards to other thinkers they reference, as well as thinkers they don't mention explicitly but influenced them. Sometimes I envision philosophy as this giant web of interconnected nodes; you can enter pretty much anywhere and then follow the lines in pretty much any direction. I recommend you read what interests you and consult secondary sources for anything historical that seems important.

[Anonymous No.15142937]

>>15139385
You’re retarded

[Anonymous No.15143415]

>>15139297
Fuck OP, fuck the weebposters, fuck philosophy. Embrace Islam and nothing else. Everything else is kufar.

[Anonymous No.15144404]

>>15139385
This can't be real. So intellecutal poverty exists. Literally depressing.