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Philosophy — Susan Rigetti

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Six years ago, I wrote and shared a little guide to studying physics called “So You Want to Learn Physics” in the hope that it would help anyone who wanted to learn physics on their own. As it turned out, people found it pretty useful (as of today, over six hundred thousand people have used it!), and ever since I published it, I’ve found myself wondering what else along those same lines I might know that I can share with others. Writing similar guides for philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and classics — all subjects that I have studied in depth both formally and informally — has long been on my to-do lists. And here, at last, is a guide to studying philosophy. There is a kind of intellectual joy that comes from studying philosophy, and it has everything to do with the nature of the discipline. At the heart of it all is the desire to make sense of the world and our place within it — a painfully deep human desire to know who we are, what it means that we are beings that think an

So You Want to Study Philosophy… Introduction April 27th, 2021 Six years ago, I wrote and shared a little guide to studying physics called “ So You Want to Learn Physics ” in the hope that it would help anyone who wanted to learn physics on their own. As it turned out, people found it pretty useful (as of today, over six hundred thousand people have used it!), and ever since I published it, I’ve found myself wondering what else along those same lines I might know that I can share with others. Writing similar guides for philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and classics — all subjects that

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