{"id":1856,"date":"2023-07-11T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2023-07-30T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:38:13","slug":"textbooks-in-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/07\/11\/textbooks-in-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbooks in philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailynous.com\/2023\/07\/10\/logic-courseware-surveyed\/\">At Daily Nous<\/a>, Curtis Franks provides a summary of OER and free logic textbooks and courseware. <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@anteagle@fediphilosophy.org\/110695698811555014\">On Mastodon<\/a>, Anthony Eagle comments: &#8220;It is so great that there is so much effort by philosophers on this part of the textbook market; maybe we should now turn to other areas.&#8221; I sympathize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve written OER <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/understanding-science\/blob\/master\/understanding-science.pdf\">notes on scientific inference<\/a>, which cover the difference between deduction and induction, problem of inductions, and underdetermination. I&#8217;ve often thought I should extend it out to be a whole textbook. There are several reasons that I haven&#8217;t.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1856' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/07\/11\/textbooks-in-philosophy\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1856' title=' When I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/logic\/&quot;&gt;forall x&lt;\/a&gt; back in 2005, I was motivated by the high and rising prices of logic textbooks. Moreover, logic textbooks are commodified. There are lots of different books which cover more or less the same stuff. Logic is really the only course that I teach with a textbook, rather than with primary texts.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Outside of formal philosophy, the history matters. I can pick an edition and a translation of Descartes&#8217; <em>Meditations<\/em> when teaching modern philosophy, but I can&#8217;t switch to a contemporary book that covers the same material. Even for more recent topics, there&#8217;s value for students to read the classic papers rather than just a summary of them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One thing I want to teach students is how to read a philosophical text. This means struggling with the actual thing, rather than just getting the gist of it from a secondary or tertiary source\u2014 even if the secondary or tertiary source is me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If I were to use a textbook I had written, then students would get the same take on the material both from the reading and me in class. If my way of putting things isn&#8217;t clear to them, getting it twice isn&#8217;t likely to help.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Daily Nous, Curtis Franks provides a summary of OER and free logic textbooks and courseware. On Mastodon, Anthony Eagle comments: &#8220;It is so great that there is so much effort by philosophers on this part of the textbook market; maybe we should now turn to other areas.&#8221; I sympathize. I&#8217;ve written OER notes on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/07\/11\/textbooks-in-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Textbooks in philosophy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[39,27,13],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-forall-x","tag-open-access","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-tW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}