I'm still working on Anger and Forgiveness by Martha Nussbaum.
And I just started How the Laws of Physics Lie by Nancy Cartwright.

P.M.S. Hacker, Wittgenstein's Place In Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy.

This book is intense.

This book is intense. — Posty McPostface

In what way?

IDK, just feel that I have to be at a high level of mental exertion to understand what I'm reading most of the time, otherwise my eyes glaze over and I just stare and 'read' the book.

It is about analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein's place in it after all.

Scott Wilson - The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment
Daniela Voss - Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas

I just read Imagining the Tenth Dimension, by Rob Bryanton. A curious little tome that helps one visualize ten dimensions and contextualizes them into the omniverse.

At first, i thought talk of higher dimensions was metaphysical nonsense but after reading this (and watching the odd YouTube video about geometry) I realize that, at the very least, imagining the omniverse in ten dimensions could be a useful tool in defining our universe's position in the cosmos.
Have a look see and message me your thoughts:

Imagining 10 dimensions: the movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg85IH3vghA
Perfect Shapes In Higher Dimensions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4TqVAbfz4

Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God. Reading "Proof Four" and am still not convinced.

Some books I've read in the last few months:

Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi (reread)
Paradise Lost by Milton
SPQR by Mary Beard
Ancient Greece by Thomas Martin
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
Selected Works by Cicero
The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce
The Once and Future Liberalism by Mark Ilia

I also finally finished the full essays of Montaigne, having started in 2013.

How good is Montaigne' writings on superstition?

Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, by Raimond Gaita.

Quite excellent! Despite being a devout Christian, he was nevertheless highly skeptical of many forms of superstition, best demonstrated in his most famous essay, An Apology For Raymond Sebond (although given his many digressions however, it's discussed elsewhere as well).

Quite excellent! Despite being a devout Christian, he was nevertheless highly skeptical of many forms of superstition, best demonstrated in his most famous essay, An Apology For Raymond Sebond (although given his many digressions however, it's discussed elsewhere as well). — Maw

Indeed, which is why he clearly showed that any 'difference' between genders is largely a product of custom and education which, I think, had an influence on Rousseau. He also has that forceful talent with a hint of humour (although I have certainly not read everything of his, just reminiscing what I did many years back now) that gives me that same joyful feeling that Voltaire does. I will try and remember the title of the essay, I am at work now but it is somewhere at home.

full essays of Montaigne — Maw

Some of them are good, but some of them are so boring :-d ... I often get lost in his ruminations. No wonder it took you so long to plough through everything.

Well frikkin done (on the Montaigne).

How good is Montaigne' writings on superstition? — TimeLine

Most of it is good - my favorite was "On prognostications". It was short, to the point, and impartial. It would actually make a good topic for a thread.

Reading Putnam edited by Maria Baghramian

Awakening Intelligence by Krisnamutri.

Finding it a bit heavy to be honest, I'm sticking with it though as I feel there's some great lessons in there.

I hope it's okay to ask here.

I mostly read books on psychology. Currently going through work of Sigmund Freud.

Also - Stephen Grosz - The Examined Life

I'm not well read in philosophy, so was wondering if anyone could recommend me anything on 'the philosophy of mind', and if possible at least partially related to psychology. I know there are Encyclopedias that capture the main ideas of philosophy of mind, but I was looking for something more specific, and maybe a bit more practical?

Mysticism - Evelyn Underhill
The Divine Invasion - Philip K. Dick

I'm no expert on the mind by any means, and I enjoyed reading David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind and John Searle (I don't remember which book I have.. but this looks good. I just ordered it for myself).

Thank you kindly ;)

Merry Christmas all! Here's the 2017 reading list (*** indicate favourites):

Political Theory

Hannah Arendt - Between Past and Future: Eight Excercises In Political Thought***
Wendy Brown - States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
Wendy Brown - Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
Wendy Brown - Politics out of History
Wendy Brown - Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
Alessandro Ferrara - The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgement
Raymond Geuss - Philosophy and Real Politics (Reread)
Raymond Geuss - Politics and the Imagination (Reread)***
Raymond Geuss - Outside Ethics
Raymond Geuss - Public Goods, Private Goods
Bonnie Honig - Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Bonnie Honig - Public Things: Democracy In Disrepair
Bonnie Honig - Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (reread)
Paul Patton - Deleuze and the Political
Linda Zerilli - A Democratic Theory of Judgement
Linda Zerilli - Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom***

Sociology/Political Science

Ivan Ascher - Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction
Melinda Cooper - Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era***
Melinda Cooper - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism***
Christopher DeWolf - Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong
Nikolas Rose - The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
The Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection
The Invisible Committee - To Our Friends***
Loic Wacquant - Punishing the Poor: the Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Life/Evolution

Lila Gatlin - Information Theory and the Living System
Peter Hoffman - Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Evelyn Fox Keller - Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines
Evelyn Fox Keller - The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Culture
Nick Lane - The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Eva Jablonka & Marion Lamb - Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life***
Dorion Sagan & Eric Schneider - Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life

Sound/Analogy

Edward Campbell - Music After Deleuze
Aden Evens - Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience***
Daniel Heller-Roazen - The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World
Noah Roderick - The Being of Analogy
Kaja Silverman - Flesh of my Flesh
Eleni Ikoniadou - The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic

'Theory'

Giorgio Agamben - The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics
Giorgio Agamben - The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Days
Maurice Blanchot - The Step Not Beyond
Judith Butler - Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Colby Dickinson - Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation
Benjamin Noys - The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory
Scott Wilson - The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment
Catherine Malabou - Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality***
Catherine Malabou - Changing Difference: The Question of the Feminine in Philosophyi]
Catherine Mills - The Philosophy of Agamben

Misc.

Hannah Arendt - The Life of the Mind
George Williams and Daniel Reynolds - A Charter of Rights For Australia
Peter Brain and Ian Manning - Credit Code Red: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe
Luciano Floridi - Information: A Very Short Introduction

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Really happy with this year's reading. Been meaning to revisit both politics and sciences this year, and I think I achieved that. Also super happy with my male/female ratio - this is the possibly the first year I've read as many female authors as I have male ones, which I've been trying to do without success for a few years now. Next year I need to branch out along ethic lines, though I'm not as confident I'll achieve that. Aesthetics, though, is the topic I really want to knock over next year. Have a great year to come everyone!

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Also, started today:

Hermann Weyl - Symmetry

D'Arcy Thompson - On Growth and Form
Adolf Portmann - Animal Forms and Patterns: A Study of the Appearance of Animals

-Daniel C. Matt - The Essential Kabbalah
-The most recent edit of my brother's forthcoming sci-fi novel

Dune by Frank Herbert

Gabriel Marcel by Seymour Cain
The Existential Drama of Gabriel Marcel edited by Francis Lescoe
Awakenings by Gabriel Marcel

Have you read Berdyaev yet? I really think you'd find him interesting.

He's on my short list, I promise! Right now I'm working on a project involving Gabriel Marcel.
(I'm listening to this today)

The Heights of Despair by Cioran (rereading)
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

Oh I also read Moby-Dick by Melville last year, and I thought that worth mentioning. Absolutely breathtaking.

Ethical Intuitionism by Michael Huemer. Now this is some actually-good analytic philosophy.

Giorgio Agamben - Taste
Giorgio Agamben - What Is Philosophy?