Saw this book at a local store and decided to buy it. There are 10 chapters, each accompanied by meditation exercises. It was interesting to see how for some of those, I had already spent a lot of time and reached the same conclusions myself.
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Goodbye KDP, hello Apress
In 2018 I self-published my first book (Gentle Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris) using Leanpub and KDP (Amazon CreateSpace at the time). I blogged about that here.
In this blog post, I will write about moving away from KDP and publishing with a more normal publisher.
Continue reading “Goodbye KDP, hello Apress”Philosophy and critical thinking overview
I recently completed Philosophy and Critical Thinking (Syllabus), an edX course. The course took about 2 weeks, on and off. This is my second course in philosophy, and my earlier writing on a previous course can be found here.
The course contains 6 modules in total. The format is, for each module there are submodules, and most submodules have text that explains the ideas, accompanied by videos that are a distilled version of the text. Finally, each module includes a graded quiz. The course intertwines philosophy (philosophical ideas i.e. who said what at some point) and critical thinking (logic).
(Meta) The way I consumed the contents:
- Skimming through the texts, including ChatGPT section summaries (this was particularly useful)
- Watching all videos
- Taking notes (thus this blog post)
(Meta Meta) Talking about the way I consumed the content gives more information about what my actions might have been during the course 🙂
In this blog post, I will briefly overview the ideas being discussed.
Continue reading “Philosophy and critical thinking overview”Hva er filosofi overview
In this blog post, I will write an overview of the book “Hva er filosofi” (What is philosophy?) by Lars Svendsen.
At a local bookstore, I bought a version that was translated into my native language. The translation isn’t the best, but I still finished the book as I found the content interesting and was able to get past the syntactical issues by ignoring them and merely focusing on the content 🙂 As a matter of fact, I think the syntactical issues were actually a good thing. I mostly write blog posts like this one because it helps me with crystallizing ideas, and when I try to explain parts of the book I can’t just copy/paste, I have to work on paraphrasing using (hopefully, what is) non-broken grammar.
I have read a couple of philosophy books in the past period, and I have to say that this book is probably the most meta of them all. I had one picture in mind as to what philosophy represents (argument+idea), but reading this book extended that view: philosophy is everything and nothing.
Continue reading “Hva er filosofi overview”GEB: An EGB overview (Part II)
This post is a follow-up to the first part.
However, before proceeding with the usual format as in the previous post, I will make a small comment.
I was very amazed by the first part of the book, so before starting the second part I viewed the book’s references. One book caught my attention: “What is the Name of this Book?”. So I ordered it and I read it. I found the book’s author’s style to be very similar to GEB’s style: puns, self-references, discussions about meaning, and paradoxes. So if you follow GEB’s references, you can almost see how GEB’s author’s style came to be.
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