Proposals for the next reading group?

Shawn December 21, 2022 at 00:02 3425 views 11 comments

I would like to start a thread about proposals for the next reading group...

I don't have a list on mind, but is anyone interested in reading some of the recents?

May I propose that we can read papers also and if so does anyone have any suggestions?

Comments (11)

Paine December 21, 2022 at 00:50 #765408 0 likes

I would like to talk about On the Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche.

Shawn December 21, 2022 at 03:16 #765442 0 likes

Oh, a reading group for Nietzsche would be quite some fun...

I'd like to ask if anyone would be interested in reading something published by Scott Soams?

Manuel December 21, 2022 at 03:56 #765449 0 likes

I've done one for Chomsky and Hume.

Coming up is Locke's Essay, probably focusing on 3 chapters, but I've still to finish re-reading the book.

Shawn December 21, 2022 at 04:48 #765456 0 likes

I recently finished Rorty's Linguistic Turn, which was really a great introduction to linguistic philosophy. I'm hoping someone would want to delve more into the current state of the linguistic turn in philosophy, nowadays.

Shawn December 24, 2022 at 18:18 #766302 0 likes

@Banno proposed reading Identity and Necessity by Kripke.

Anyone?

Shawn January 01, 2023 at 22:17 #768383 0 likes

Banno:I plan a thread on Danièle Moyal-Sharrock's Understanding Wittgensteins On Certainty, which apparently addresses the pre-predicative and the predicative distinction in an interesting way. I think she's muddled, but the devil will be in the detail.

- @Banno
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/768370

Shawn January 16, 2023 at 04:35 #773039 0 likes

I'm hoping to start some reading group around Philosophical Pessimism.

I think it would be rewarding to have one oriented around that.

Any takers?

Metaphysician Undercover January 16, 2023 at 11:47 #773129 0 likes

Reply to Shawn
I'm not familiar with any authors who have taken this perspective directly. Is this a sort of negative pragmaticism? Pragmaticism takes the desired end (the good) as the feature with the most power to shape knowledge and society as a whole. Does philosophical pessimism take failure to achieve the desired end as the formative feature of society?

Shawn January 17, 2023 at 03:51 #773364 0 likes

Quoting Metaphysician Undercover

Pragmaticism takes the desired end (the good) as the feature with the most power to shape knowledge and society as a whole.

Pragmatism seems to be a sort of antithesis of Philosophical Pessimism...

Quoting Metaphysician Undercover

Does philosophical pessimism take failure to achieve the desired end as the formative feature of society?

Not of society; but, the world as a whole, along with human nature reflexively interacting with the world in some authors opinion.

javi2541997 February 13, 2023 at 05:51 #780518 0 likes

I would like to talk about Sun and Steel; and The Way of Samurai, both of Yukio Mishima.

...But I am aware that most you do not like samurai philosophy :death:

Paine March 15, 2023 at 22:46 #789450 0 likes

How about Aristotle's De Anima?

Or is that an overgrown lot filled with irreconcilable weeds?