As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Click any of the following books to buy it on Amazon and bring me a commission (I’ll also get a commission on everything else you buy there at the same time). I’ve listed each in the order I think is the best or most important reading. For some I have even written up how you’ll benefit from reading them (check my ongoing series).
To get started as a competent philosopher and start building a sound philosophy of life of your own, I strongly recommend beginning with these:
And then:
The Philosopher’s Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets
Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough
A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
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And to explore and study the subject further, in various particulars, I highly recommend these:
Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Authentic Happiness: The New Positive Psychology
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind
Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology
Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches
Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism And Cynicism
Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
The Atheist’s Primer
Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
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I also have recommendations for understanding Ancient Science and the Origins of Christianity.
