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Oct 6, 2024

Philosophers outside the canon I find interesting

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Oct 6, 2024

The canon here being the usual "main route" one takes when reading philosophy. A lot of these are likely known to people that read philosophy, but lesser known outside of it.

List is a combo of read/to-read.

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1 month ago

Good stuff. Only philosopher here I've read somewhat extensively is Cavell's stuff (Must We Mean What We Say and his commentary on Walden) which is brilliant but can often be infuriating because he self-consciously writes in a way that expresses ambiguous attitudes about where he stands on an issue. I've read a bit of David Edward Cooper's reconstruction of existentialism and thought it was very good - he has this very interesting take in there on reading the history of modern philosophy as centred around "alienation" rather than on knowledge, arguing that what's really troubling about something like scepticism about the external world or of other minds, is not the lack of knowledge but the possibility that I'm alienated from others and the world because I can be a constituted self without either of those things. Would be interested in seeing if he expands on this at length in his other work. Dalston, Millikan Baier, Hadot, Mark Wilson, Blumenberg, Danto and MacBeth are especially interesting given my own tastes.