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How to Read Philosophy and Theory
David W. Concepción, Jim Pryor, and others
Short guides from philosophy teachers on reading slowly and well: pre-reading, tracking the argument and the author's voice, annotating, rereading, and summarizing. The LSE guide is written for dense theoretical texts. Read these before the first big primary text.
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- Mona Mona, "How to Become a Philosopher, or Just Learn to Think Like One" (Philosophy Publics): building a reading practice and an ideas notebookText ↗
- David W. Concepción, "Reading as a Philosopher" (The Philosophers' Magazine)Text ↗
- Jim Pryor, "Guidelines on Reading Philosophy"Text ↗
- OpenStax, Introduction to Philosophy, "Reading Philosophy" (open textbook, CC BY)Text ↗
- LSE Gender Institute, "A Preliminary Guide to Critical Reading" (for theory)Text ↗
Texts are public domain or freely licensed. References are Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries.