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by anaphor 1747 days ago
As someone with a philosophy degree this isn't a great list. Most of the recommended readings seem like random textbooks they found. It's pretty light on actual source material, and when they do list it, it's a bit bizarre, like recommending "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems" for philosophy of mathematics (Not that I think it's not worth reading, but not as your introduction to philos of math!), or recommending Kuhn as a supplemental reading, but not Popper, Bacon, Hume, etc.

FWIW, for philosophy of mathematics, I'd recommend reading "Introduction To Mathematical Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell. The recommendation of The Frege Reader is actually good, but I'd recommend watching some lectures or something as well, otherwise it'll be a difficult read.

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I'm a phil grad too, and agree. Too many inaccessible dry canonical texts. And no mention of Quine! I'd pick texts that animate the subject; with motivation the classics become more accessible. So for PhilSci I'd have Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason, for PhilMathLogic, Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. Quine's Essays covers logic, metaphysics, logic and language. And to keep things up to date I'd put Bostrom's Simulation argument.