© Roger M Tagg 2010-2013
Welcome to FROLIO – a new attempt to merge philosophy and the "semantic web".
When I come across a really interesting book, especially if I have to return it to a library or to the friend who lent it to me, after reading it once I go through it again and make a note of what I think are the big points in the book. I do this by page number (of the edition I read) and almost always colour-code the chapters. Otherwise I find I quickly forget what it was all about.
Most of these books have some relevance to FROLIO; they cover things like Philosophy; Religion 'after Religion'; and Bullshit. My reading also sometimes drifts into Psychology and the Social World.
Obviously the selection of quotations reflect my own biases and preferences. I usually only put things in double quotes where it is exactly what the author (or another person whom the author quotes) said. The bits in brackets, e.g. [RT: xxx] are thoughts that I have added.
I realize that I've dropped a lot of names and reproduced a lot of the authors' fancy words. So, as time has gone on, I have added hyperlinks to many names, topics and other reading sources. This is in case you as reader aren't familiar with some of these, or you need some more background or clarification. In many cases, the hyperlinks are to English language Wikipedia entries. These seem to me to "grind the fewest axes" (see also this comment). Post-modernists and others might accuse Wikipedia of cultural bias, but if so it's the bias of "the average decent citizen who does not beat his wife and who certainly does not maltreat his dog" (Alistair Kee, 'The Way of Transcendence' p227 - see below).
In most cases I have started off with a short summary - and sometimes afterthoughts as well - but I don't pretend to offer any serious reviews.
General Philosophy
Emotions
| Gillian Bendelow & Simon Williams (eds) - Emotions in Social Life | Anthony Hatzimoysis - Philosophy and the Emotions |
Epistemology (i.e. what can we know?, what is reality?, and what is truth?)
| Adam Morton - Theory of Knowledge | WV Quine - The Pursuit of Truth | Richard Rorty - Truth and Progress | John Searle - The Construction of Social Reality |
Ethics (how should we live a good life)
| Joseph Badaracco - Questions of Character | Richard Holloway - Between the Monster and the Saint | Stephen Law - The War for Childrens Minds | Dave Robinson - Ethics for Beginners |
Existentialism (we're here because we're here)
| David Cooper - Existentialism | Gary Cox - How to be an Existentialist | Michael Allen Fox - The Remarkable Existentialists | Samuel Todes - Body and World |
Judgment, Leadership and Management
| Mark Gerzon - Leading Through Conflict | Grant, Keenoy & Oswick - Discourse and Organization | Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow |
Meaning (what do people want when they utter something)
| Grant, Keenoy & Oswick - Discourse and Organization | Michael Polanyi & Harry Prosch - Meaning | Anton Zijderveld - On Clichés |
Narrative and Stories
| Alex Callinicos - Theories and Narratives | Anthony Paul Kerby - The Narrative of Self | Cristopher Nash (ed) - Narrative in Culture |
Popular Culture
| Marcel Danesi - Popular Culture | Daniel Harris - Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic |
Religion (comparative and post-theist)
Psychology and Science
Society and Human Relationships
Bullshit
Alphabetic List by Author
A longer reading list is also available - this includes a number of items related to Information Systems as well as directly FROLIO-related issues.
Some of these links may be under construction – or re-construction.
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