Pass the herbicide.

Stumbled upon a great piece by Susan Haack - "Scientism and its Discontents"

Stumbled upon a great piece by Susan Haack — darthbarracuda

Yes, nice that's its freely available online. It's based on two lectures that you can also watch on YouTube.
Science, Yes; Scientism, No
Scientistic Philosophy, No; Scientific Philosophy, Yes

And also of interest: Six Signs of Scientism

The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-reading)

Dynamics of Faith - Paul Tillich

Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing - Kierkegaard

oh god..

I finished reading Armstrong's Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics today. I am going to Frank Jackson's From Metaphysics to Ethics.

Bonnie Honig - Public Things: Democracy In Disrepair
Raymond Geuss - Public Goods, Private Goods

Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics

Guy gets it right every time. Just too bad people aren't as rational as conservatives think.

Linda Zerilli - Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom

Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon – Roger Zelazny

Wendy Brown - States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

The Journey to the East -- Herman Hesse

Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons -- Mark Siderits

Blow-Up: And other stories - Julio Cortazar

Still reading The Conservatives - A History.

The book begins in 1662, and I'm currently about three quarters of the way through, at the year 1937, with Neville Chamberlain as leader: a chapter titled "The Appeasment Party". It goes up to David Cameron.

Bonnie Honig - Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics
Colby Dickinson - Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation

Looking to start these next:

The Sign of the Unicorn – Roger Zelazny
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis – C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

Raymond Geuss - Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss - Politics and the Imagination
Raymond Geuss - Outside Ethics

Jonathan Edwards - Freedom of the Will

Jonathan Edwards - Freedom of the Will — Sineview

Nice. I notice that it's available for free on the Google Play Store.

Nice. I notice that it's available for free on the Google Play Store. — Pierre-Normand

Always a compelling feature.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms

Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling

Richard Polt - Heidegger: An Introduction

Robin Le Poidevin - Arguing for Atheism

Emmanuel Levinas - Basic Philosophical Writings

Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms — darthbarracuda

You should just read the whole Parerga and Paralipomena.

Presently: The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte Frederick C. Beiser

Recently: Kant and Spinozism Beth Lord



Was it a wild Geuss chase? >:O

Was it a wild Geuss chase? — John

Take a Geuss :P

I'm so sad though, I left a bag in a taxi with Politics and the Imagination in it and it was such a good book :(

A wild Geuss was taken...

I'm so sad though, I left a bag in a taxi with Politics and the Imagination in it and it was such a good book — StreetlightX

Sympathy...
:)

Don't worry the cab driver's happy now! :P

James Thurber's short stories, which are hilarious.

Wendy Brown - Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Hannah Arendt - Between Past and Future: Eight Excercises In Political Thought
Wendy Brown - Politics out of History

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Not academic philosophy, but just started reading Dawkins' The God Delusion which I've never gotten around to before.

I've also been reading snippets of Nietzsche, Russell, and G. E. Moore here and there.