Sunday, December 20, 2009
More winter reading
For Intro students eager to get a jump-start on the readings, here are our main texts for Winter-Spring 2010:
*Solomon & Higgins, A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy
*Richardson, William James: in the Maelstrom of American Modernism
*de Botton, Consolations of Philosophy
*Critchley, Book of Dead Philosophers
Everyone will also be encouraged to find a volume of popular philosophy that speaks peculiarly to an interest of their own, and either write or do a class presentation about it. (Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy, anyone?)
If the Critchley title sounds too morbid, I promise you it is not. Mortality was never so much fun, in fact. Here is the author, surveying a very brief history of how Big Questioners have shuffled off our humble coil. (Best exit line, seasonally appropriate just now, was from Wittgenstein: "Tell them it was a wonderful life.")
*Solomon & Higgins, A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy
*Richardson, William James: in the Maelstrom of American Modernism
*de Botton, Consolations of Philosophy
*Critchley, Book of Dead Philosophers
Everyone will also be encouraged to find a volume of popular philosophy that speaks peculiarly to an interest of their own, and either write or do a class presentation about it. (Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy, anyone?)
If the Critchley title sounds too morbid, I promise you it is not. Mortality was never so much fun, in fact. Here is the author, surveying a very brief history of how Big Questioners have shuffled off our humble coil. (Best exit line, seasonally appropriate just now, was from Wittgenstein: "Tell them it was a wonderful life.")
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