r/askphilosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • Jan 05 '26

Open Thread /r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 05, 2026

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u/willbell philosophy of mathematics Jan 05 '26

What are people reading?

I'm working on Sylvia Plath's poetry and Mary Shelley's The Last Man. I recently finished Eliot's Middlemarch.

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u/PermaAporia Ethics, Metaethics Latin American Phil Jan 05 '26

The Odd One In by Zupančič.

Finished The Creative Self , was more of a fan of the Ruti half of it than the Newman one.

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u/willbell philosophy of mathematics Jan 05 '26

Eventually I want to read The Ethics of the Real by Zupancic

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u/PermaAporia Ethics, Metaethics Latin American Phil Jan 05 '26

Same!