James Williams - Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide
Henry Somers-Hall - Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition

Building up to enter again the breach that is D&R, something I've been doing for a while now - I'll get alot more out of it this time, I hope.

I sort of want to read all of Lewis' stuff, if only to see how one so sensible could have gone so mad. — The Great Whatever

I sometimes wish I had the willpower to read stuff this that I know I will vehemently disagree with. I can't bring myself to, when there's just so much more 'constructive' (philosophy-building, rather than philosophy-'tearing down') things I feel I might be able to do.

I pretty much disagree with everything, so it doesn't matter to me. I read mostly to become familiar with the tradition.

I have a love-hate relationship with Amazon. I recently binged four books off that website, all philosophy-related. The first was a book on process philosophy by Rescher, another was on meta-ethics, and the last two I got at a bargain price of $10 combined, both on artificial intelligence (the science and philosophy behind it).

I don't know why I bought these to be honest. It's not like college offers me much time to read anything anyway. At least the latter two books are somewhat related to my degree.

What's your degree, if you don't mind me asking?

Currently electrical engineering, but I'm switching to computer engineering next semester. I'm also minoring in philosophy.

Nice, my last 4 years has been: work and read philosophy during semester, cram electrical eng during exams.

Even now I want to join the reading group but can't get enough time away from verilog.

I found the engineering informed my philosophy stuff more than the other way round.
Classes on machine learning, computer vision techniques etc.

John Stuart Mill said that if he found a book effort to read, then he would also read a book he enjoyed at the same time, and go back and forth.

Interesting. I envy your left brain ability.

I found the engineering informed my philosophy stuff more than the other way round.
Classes on machine learning, computer vision techniques etc. — shmik

I've found that as well. Object-oriented programming in Java complemented my excursions into analytic metaphysics.

The Sickness unto Death - Kierkegaard

Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature Ted Toadvine

Derrida, Writing and Difference

Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (pretty much finished first reading of this)

Foucault, Madness and Civilization

And the weak suffer what they must? - Yanis Varoufakis

So far, so interesting.

Noticed a review that might be of interest to folks here Are we really so modern?, a review of Antony Gottlieb's “The Dream of Enlightenment” (second in a series on the history of ideas, first of which was 'The Dream of Reason')

The misreading of Spinoza makes me sad. He's and acosmist ( "God is real. The finite is an illusion- and so never God") not a pantheist ("The finite is God").

One of the facts of life that I've come to terms with, is that I will never understand Spinoza.

I'm not so sure. You are closer than you might think. Sometimes what you say about God not being a finite entity is approaching his insight. The problem is you, despite realising that God is not really a question of a miracle worker, still consider God in finite terms.

For you God is still effectively a casual force, a force or presence which enables the world, which makes the world and it meaning rather than not. In the way that matters (i.e. the presence of the meaningful world), God is still of the world. For you it is like the world of the finite forms we encountered is and illusion, but it is the world which is really God-- we become wise by recognising our existence is given by the infinite, rather than merely being finite.

Spinoza sort of speaks from the infinite point of view. In terms of God (the infinite), the finite is an illusion. The world is not real at all, meaning it is entirely separate and so not caused by the infinite (not even a transcendent one, not even in meaning) of God. Our world is only ever finite and so cannot be of God. To say our existence is given by God is a contradiction. It would be to turn God into a finite actor.

Anyway, this is probably getting too far off topic, so I should probably leave it here.

Gilles Deleuze - Bergsonism
Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet - Dialogues II

Keeping Ourselves in the Dark by Colin Feltham

Is Nature Ever Evil?: Religion, Science and Value by Willem B. Drees

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Brian Davies

Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed by Cornelis de Waal

and a few others

Kant's Perpetual Peace.
Narajuna's the tree of wisdom (until he started to get obnoxious around half way through)
And currently Pathological lying, accusations and swindling.

Gay
Science

The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump >:O

Do you folks have bankruptcy laws? You'll probably need that.

Yes but you'll get arrested. Business is very different around here than in Western countries. It's much harder to scale up it seems, takes much longer. The law and bureaucracy isn't on your side either - it's too stuffy. The problem here in Eastern Europe (and this is across the border) isn't what to do - but rather how to do it and be within the law... Because the law isn't made well, it's a struggle. I'm working as a single person (and even I'm not sure if I'm actually on the right side of the law lol) and unless you really like the independence of working for yourself, no one would do it. It's strange that I both like my work, and I find it very stressful at one and the same time - but stressful in the way that something is stressful when you can't stop thinking about it, and your mind always goes back to it again and again. Interesting subject for a thread actually.

Yea, I was self-employed for about 7 years. For the first few years I was basically working every waking minute (mostly marketing). I had to schedule everything down to lunch to get stuff done. Why don't you come to the US or Canada?

Brothers Karamazov

The Ticklish Subject

Rising Up & Rising Down

Brothers Karamazov — csalisbury

Possibly my favorite novel.

I've read the first 1/3 twice, but when I was too young to really appreciate it ( 8th grade, 10th grade ) but I'm really enjoying it this time around.

Strange synchronicities; I've just started reading it again this week: and loving it so far.

Just finished Quantum, Manjit Kumar. Excellent account of the Bohr-Einstein debates for non specialists.