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Txv
 
Reply Mon 10 Nov, 2008 06:02 am
I'm Txv

I'm currently reading Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism. And have lately got thru a few of the essays of A.C. Grayling's Truth Meaning and Realism which is what led me to the skepticism of Empiricus.

Formerly I'd mostly read Continental philosophy, but also quite a bit on the philosophical derivations from cognitive neuroscience, like Dennett or Damasio's work.

My favourite works would be:
Bergson's Matter and Memory
Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil - (i've read nearly all of his books)
Deleuze's What Is Philosophy?
Dan C. Dennett's Consciousness Explained
Hegel's Phenomenolgy of Spirit
Roger Penrose's Shadow's of the Mind
Schopenhaur's The World as Will and Idea
Spengler's Decline of the West
etc etc...I could go on for a bit.

I also like Marx's take on Hegel, his dialectic materialism, but not so much his ultimate conclusions re communism, or at least how its been instituted so far!

Bye! :shifty:
 
jgweed
 
Reply Mon 10 Nov, 2008 08:08 am
@Txv,
A kindred spirit, perhaps at last!

By accident as a grad student I took a course in Sextus and then another in Nietzsche, both of whom influenced (and continue to do so and in different ways) my own thinking. Of the moderns, Sartre and Heidegger have been areas of continued interest, and I am currently working through the latter's "What is Called Thinking?" and Schultz's "The Structures of the Life-World."

I am sure we will many areas of agreement and probably some of difference, and I look forward to our dialogues here on the Philforum.
Regards,
John
 
Rose phil
 
Reply Tue 11 Nov, 2008 01:48 pm
@Txv,
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