I mostly use this site to track my philosophy reading via lists (I also like looking at other people's lists). Since I frequently update the lists I have made them private, so they do not dominate the recent lists page. Books are usually found via citation chasing in bibliographies/endmatter, or newly published works in catalogs/reviews.

Here are the lists with a short note on their topics (and notes to myself).

Metaphysics and Epistemology:

• Visual Thinking: the art of seeing and imagining. Using the visual as a philosophical lens.

• Social Thinking: social epistemology. Thinking on a spectrum from dialogue with two people to large social systems.

• Affective Thinking: the history and philosophy of the passions. Using emotion as a philosophical lens.

• What are the limits of reason and experience?

• Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?

Art, Aesthetics, and Design:

• Gardens and Gardening.

• Maps, Atlases, Cartography.

• Music.

• Philosophy of Literature and Poetry (to do: move lists here).

  • Literature and Poetry.

  • Gothic Literature.

Symbolism, Metaphor, and Iconography:

• Automata, Robots, and Mechanism: the ancient and ongoing image of reality (and life) as a machine (and its rivals/critics).

• Dreams and Dream Interpretation.

• Imaginative Miniaturisation and Microcosms.

Science and Mathematics

• History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

• History and Philosophy of Biology (to do: move lists here).

Political Philosophy:

• Machiavelli: Secondary Sources.

Other:

• Philosophers outside the canon I find interesting.