Each subject already has its own order. These three sequences cut across subjects instead, for readers who want a route through the whole site rather than a route through one part of it.
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Four articles a week for six weeks. Starts with how arguments work, because every other subject leans on that, then moves through the four questions philosophy keeps returning to: what exists, what we can know, what we owe each other, and what a mind is. Nothing here assumes prior reading.
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The sequence an analytic philosophy department would recognise as the spine of its own training. Formal logic first, then the Gettier literature, then the metaphysics of modality and time, then the mind. It ends in metatheory, where the tools get turned on themselves. Assumes you have done the beginner tier or its equivalent.
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This site is written from an analytic vantage point, so treat this as a bridge rather than a substitute for reading Hegel, Heidegger, or Foucault directly. It gathers the articles that engage the questions the continental tradition made central: being as a question rather than an inventory, the first-person structure of experience, ideology and power, and the situated body. Each one names the primary texts to go to next.
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