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It might be a good means to exchange ideas and learn something. Anyone? Participants would agree on a book to read at a suitable pace and contribute thoughts as they go along.
 
I'll attempt to join you.. although i can't promise anything as I am very busy in a new job.
 
Three is definitely a group! Which book?

My 'to read' list is this:
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee (I read this but I'll read it again and again until I understand transcendental idealism)
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant (exceedingly difficult?)
The World as Will and Representation (apparently Schopenhauer's prose is among the best German ever written, with Goethe and Schiller)
Faust by Goethe (I like this option)
Zen and the Art of Archery by Herrigel (only 60 pages so I'm reading it today)
Elements of Metaphysics by Paul Deussen
The Origin of Consciousness and Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
The Ego Tunnel by Metzinger
The DMT chronicles: Plato, Parmenides and the Psychadelic by D.M.Turner.
Science and Sanity by Korzybski (way over my head)
Physics and Philosophy by d'Espagnat (this will probably be incredibly difficult to read).

Ok I'm out of ideas now.
 
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My vote goes to The Origin of Consciousness and Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
 
This is a very good idea. I, for one, would enjoy focusing either on social philosophy (particularly in Marxian or Foucauldian traditions, with an emphasis on the genesis and effects of power) or theories of the emergence of consciousness (I'm largely Hoftstadterian). It seems that you would prefer to focus on late-period modern philosophy, which is cool. I'm ready to begin examining The Critique of Pure Reason, as I've studied and written on it a bit already.

ebola
 
rickolasnice said:
My vote goes to The Origin of Consciousness and Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
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I''ll pick this as my second choice; my first choice being The World as Will and Representation. Figuring out what to actually set our minds to is tricky.
 
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Maybe when we zero in on a few particular books, I'll set up a poll that people can vote their choices on. From there, was can assemble a sort of suggested schedule for reading, and according conversation will occur for the rest of this thread.

ebola
 
Though my philosophy collection is pretty meager, this is one of the best online ideas I've heard of.

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is on my to-do list; it has the advantage of being a fairly short work with considerable influence in the philosophy of science.
 
Let's do the Critique of Pure Reason then. I recently finished TWAWAR vol 1 and will finish the appendix: critique of the Kantian philosophy in about 2 days or so (~120 pages) and therefore the CoPR is a good place to go next.
 
Okay. So does any one have suggestions for reading selections for Kant? It's been a decade since I've studied this. We might want to consider going through A Prolegrama to any Future Metaphysics first.

ebola
 
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