lit - literature

Start with Thales.

Find a philosophy course online and follow its syllabus.

in before, start with the greeks
if you want to actually try that, try starting with the greek philosophers who are still relevant

I'm assuming you're interested in tech and science so you might want to focus on empiricists/positivists rather than, say, Derrida and all that deconstruction shit.

>>473
I am a bit interested in tech, not really much science, why do you say that anyway? And are either of those really starting points?

>>474
I'm assuming because we're on a tech related chan
positivism and deconstruction are too contemporary for a starting out point, you could try starting with some of the enlightenment era philosophy (empiricism and rationalism, early political philosophy, philosophers like john locke and thomas hobbes) and transition into modern / post modern from there, I remember that's what I did and it worked pretty ok.
Of course you're going to run into greek philosophy and older stuff at that point too, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to read about some of the bigger greek philosophers when they become relevant

>>475
by the way, if anybody tries to coopt you into their specific philosophies, or your sources seem to bias against some side or another, drop them immediately. Form your own opinions on what you're learning before falling to somebody else's, and don't be a dick about movements you don't agree with or understand

>>436
If you are lazy you could try some podcasts.

http://historyofphilosophy.net/
>Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition.

starts at ancient Greeks and is currently somewhere in the medieval times.

http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/
>The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion.

>>862
does it focus on eastern philosophy at all or are we only looking at western sources?

I've a couple of questions.
I was interested in reading about the global brain. Is 'The Global Brain: The Awakening Earth in a New Century' a good starting point?

If you're on twitter I heavily recommend @thelitcritguy - I always look forward to #theorytime

I also recommend:

aaaaarg.org
critical-theory.com
http://existentialcomics.com/

>>862
Regarding Partially Examined Life, I listened to quite a few episodes and whereas it's very interesting to hear several different reactions to a text they tend to be quite a bit wrong about a lot of things. The various ways one can read-misread things is an important theme in mid-late 20th century philosophy but it's not great for a beginner to get confused.

I haven't listened in a while though, and perhaps they have been getting better?

>>961
I don't think it's a good starting point for philosophy. It's so far off the track of where academic philosophy is at in the mid-2000s, it's trying to redo the late 80s cyberpunk thing and pretend it's applicable to the pre-twitter early facebook generation. It largely ignores history of philosophy and makes very little use of any of the terms you'll find thrown about by most other philosophers. There might be cool ideas in there but you should read some William Gibson novels instead.

For a beginning I recommend Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. He has his biases, and who knows why he left out Kierkegaard, but it is otherwise a very good and very clear summary of a huge amount of history of philosophy.

If you would like to start with the greeks then "The Last Days of Socrates" is very accessible.

Sophie's World is even more accessible…

>>961
I misread your post entirely, sorry. Kevin Kelly is probably the person to read.

>>963
>Kevin Kelly is probably the person to read.
Thank you.

>>436
Buy one of those generic "Philosopher's Guide/Handbook/ETC" books and whatever interests you from that you can then pursue separately.