The Turn of the Screw is a little masterpiece but he is difficult for modern sensibilities.

You have great patience and sharp mind to be reading it.

thank you.

I like literature, but Henry James is the worst writer of all times. I won't read his ever again even if I must fail the course.

I have a suggestion. Before you register, go to the actual school bookstore, and they should have all the books for each class grouped together. Read the first five or so pages of the start (not the introduction or the preface) of each book for every class you could take. Focus on which makes you react to it with your own ideas (as in reading you should make note of those first). Sign up for whichever courses have the books that interested you the most. Good luck

What a good idea. Thanks

I studied Ordinary Language Philosophy

Wow, you must be a linguist.

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Thank you

Thank you for the list of books and the comments about them.

What draws you to philosophy? — Paine

The short answer to your question is this: I want to learn how to think and how to ask smart questions.

I am very good at science, and the answers to the questions in established science are either correct or incorrect, except in frontier science. Many things in life have no simple answers. Most people learn by going through life facing the unknowns.

I talked to an engineer who had a course in philosophy. He said because of that one course, his education did not end after college. Well, it sounds good to me. I like to be among people who love to read and write.