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by alltrees
Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Good philosophy reads
Replies: 9
Views: 6265

Re: Good philosophy reads

This is not a "read," nor is it likely to help you in quiz bowl, but Peter Adamson's podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps is great: http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/ It doesn't quite deliver on the promise of the name (where's India? China? Africa?) but it's great for geeking ...
by alltrees
Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Good philosophy reads
Replies: 9
Views: 6265

Re: Good philosophy reads

Brian Magee is still great for people without academic training in the subject . I neglected to add in my past post that that book has a lot of interesting sidebars about how philosophical ideas connected up to art, literature, and religion developments at the time, including many full-color prints...
by alltrees
Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Good philosophy reads
Replies: 9
Views: 6265

Good philosophy reads

I'm currently reading Russell's History of Western Phil but would like to branch out and read other stuff. Particularly, more modern philosophy and non-European stuff. I'm wondering if anyone could suggest books about these topics, or any other resources relevant to philosophy that they have found e...
by alltrees
Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Regular Protobowl Players?
Replies: 5
Views: 4761

Re: Regular Protobowl Players?

Try the more specialized rooms, which don't seem to lag as much. Additionally, a small group of myself and a few other people occasionally read packets over Google Hangouts and you are welcome to join if you get tired of playing Protobowl. If you're interested, why don't you add me as a contact on G...
by alltrees
Sun Jun 08, 2014 4:33 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts
Replies: 131
Views: 73560

Re: 2015 CO Visual Arts

If I am in the Chicago area at the time of this tournament, I would be interested in playing. Your tournament sounds cool!

I'm just curious as to whether the Architecture distribution will also be split 50-50 between pre and post-1870s. (Inigo Jones, Palladio, Michelozzo, etc!)