I'm a stemfag with way too much time on my hands, so I've recently started reading philosophy to make myself believe I'm trying to become a better person. My question is: are there any philosophers whose work is particularly relevant in making someone a better engineer? If you could force all engineers to have read a few books, what would they be? Doesn't have to be essays; fiction is welcome too.
(Something along the lines of Gilbert Simondon's "Du Mode d'existence des Objets Techniques" , for the eventual french guy browsing here...)
Bonus Points if it impresses the /lit/ girls from Nanterre and the Sorbonne that I see in bars.
>>9111043
>engineers
>Engineering
Lmao not a science, go read harry potter
>>9111260
engineers, depending on the specification, deal heavily in the sciences.
not even trying to STEMflex because im in the arts and sciences.
>>9111260
also, wtf do you think the "e" is in stem?
Dude lmao
Shitty advice. Hipsterism is not good with books: some of the best authors are rather well known, and thus a large-ass font for their name might make sense for marketing reasons. Or maybe their name is relatively short, the book's name relatively long, whatever, maybe the reason is purely aesthetic.
I can recall having books like this by at least Poe, Freud, Dostoyevsky, Zizek, Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle and Homer.
Damn...
>>9111009
into the trash it goes
What the hell is this book supposed to be? Comedy? Tragedy? It's fucking depressing.
a document of repentance
>>9110788
>Depressing
Try Outer Dark. McCarthy is from the Harry Caudill school of Appalachia. Which is also the James Dickey school of Appalachia. Which is to say that they all three were from there, so knew that the sister-fucking, baby-eating pig squealing stereotypes are very real.
Heh, it's life, kiddo.
Just got this book, would I like it?
>>9110691
fucking drop it cunt
>>9110691
I just finished that book
You must be very lucky to find that from inside your toilet; the only thing I found when sitting on toilet and taking a shit, it was a snake who entered my butthole.
Would Plato have voted for Trump?
Drumpf is as removed from the concept of Philosopher King as it gets.
>>9110489
>Platon
>voting
That's were you're wrong kiddo.
>>9110501
Sorry, this thread is about Plato, not 'Platon'. You need too learn basic english
Bought this YA piece of shit based on /lit/ recommendations. Never taking advice from you faggots again. Id never solely buy on /lit/ memes but the amazon reviews were all great too. Must be paid for. I just wanted to branch out a little and read a decently written and fun fantasy title in between my classics and nonfictions. My autism prevents me from stopping a book unfinished now ill probably have to read the whole trilogy and hate every second. Fuck you guys
Ya, you're in the wrong place. The retard general is around here somewhere though.
>>9110466
This whole board is retard general
There's no way you were seriously recommended that fucking book
You were scammed, nigga
Which Platonic Dialogues are essential and which can be safely disregarded?
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>essential (vaguely in order of reading)
Euthypro
Crito
Apology
Phaedo
Symposium (can be read at any time at all, my absolute favorite)
Protagoras
Gorgias
Phaedrus
Letter Seven
Meno
Republic
Statesman
Timaeus
Lysis
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Philebus
>disregarded
Laches
Sophist
Cratylus
Ion
Charmides
Clitophon
Probably Laws because it's too much of an investment, unless political theory is what you're reading Plato for.
>>9110307
I should add that Letter Seven & Phaedrus should be read in conjunction in you have any interest in the "unwritten doctrine" of Plato.
>>9110307
Thank you. What about the Euthydemus?
Anyone have any criticism of Nick Land?
Feeling depressed because of reading some of his stuff. pic related.
JUST
>>9110192
He's a fuckin schizo who believes in numerology and other shit.
Literally the Bible.
The inevitability of this AI superintelligence seems contingent upon a philosophical materialism, no? In that, life is nothing more than a sufficiently complex and properly configured set of physical and chemical reactions, that theoretically could arise within a human-created machine, rather than the expression or a divinely-sanctione Spirit.
But then again, I guess there's the interpretation that all matter and energy are imbued with the divine spirit, which would allow for both God and an AI superintelligence, with perhaps the latter being God's true creation, with us humans merely an instrument to bring it forth. So you might be fucked either way.
Can you guys help a brother out? I'm looking for a free download of Gravity's Rainbow. I want to reread it but my library no longer has it and I can't afford to buy anything right now or download from any sketchy sites. Do you any of you know any safe downloads?
>he doesn't libgen
>>9110025
libgen or bookzz
Is this a good book to get a girl who likes horses?
>>9109973
Idk nigga, and I doubt anybody else here does either. Read it and discern for yourself.Is she cute?
>>9109979
You guys don't read John Hawkes? wtf. yeah she's cute in a nerdy kind of way.
>>9109973
It features things like horses fucking (from the horse's perspective) and castration (also from the horse's perspective). You tell me.
If you've ever 'felt' something reading a book, you probably have an IQ under 130.
Most everyone has an IQ under 130... so really this should say "If you're a human, you probably have an IQ under 130."
>tfw so smart that I can anticipate the whole plot
if you haven't, it means you're so braindead your emotions are more attuned to the mundane than to the artistic and transcendental
i pretty much only ever feel anything when reading
I'm a Russian who's been learning English for 3 years. And now, having watched numerous TV shows in English while craving for an actual read, I finely decided on this book. How difficult was it for you as a native speaker? Is the lexicon in the novel too dense for me?
>>9109561
>craving 'for'
Oh, my! I used 'for' after the word crave again. Sorry for that.
>>9109575
There's some obscure vocabulary in that book in relation to modern times, but nothing you can't get around with a good ol' dictionary; the narrative itself is not too arduous. There are some misty allusions (for me at least) you may have to refer to the endnotes though.
t. ESL
Not particularly difficult, although the Victorian style isn't the easiest form of the language. You should do fine though.
What is your favourite diary desu?
>>9109400
Mine by Toby Onest
《徐霞客游记》
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Sorry for the delay. Come one come all. Join me for the John Green read along. So come and enjoy the read(like I already did) or talk shit. I will provide all the reading material.
>>9109396
Holy... I want more...
>>9109401
I'm at work so I'll be back in a bit with with the rest. you lads can absorb this for a while.
MOAR PLEASE
>>9109233
Oh, i forgot.
I've finished Hunger already.
to live - yu hua
Read his other book, The Setting Sun