General advice about writing
- Developing a writing style. (Written for beginning graduate students, but no doubt undergraduates could use the advice too!)
- Getting published: advice from an ex-editor.
Reading lists
- Teach yourself logic Logic is taught less and less (at least in UK departments); yet more and more philosophy is written which requires some technical knowledge. Graduate students will need to teach themselves some logic: the link is to a Guide to what to read [work in progress!]. This will be developed from a planned series of posts on the blog, in the light of comments.
- Mathematical logic. This is the reading list for the Cambridge Part II Mathematical Logic paper. The paper, with pretty much the current syllabus, is a very long-standing Cambridge tradition, rather distinctively covering both some core technical results in mathematical logic, but also exploring a selection of philosophical issues they give rise to or throw light on. The link is to the last version I was responsible for writing.
- Fun reading in philosophy. Some suggestions for out-of-term-time reading, once you are a step on from being a beginner in philosophy. These are books which you might find positively enjoyable to read, written with a light touch and some zest, though still thought-provoking and instructive. I posted an initial list on the blog: more than forty people then added their own suggestions (some of which I really like, others of which seem a bit odd to me, but there’s no accounting for tastes). The link is to the whole thread for you to take your pick!
Geekery and other stuff
- Watch this space ….
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