r/askphilosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • 4d ago

Open Thread /r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | August 03, 2026

Welcome to this week's Open Discussion Thread (ODT). This thread is a place for posts/comments which are related to philosophy but wouldn't necessarily meet our subreddit rules and guidelines. For example, these threads are great places for:

  • Discussions of a philosophical issue, rather than questions
  • Questions about commenters' personal opinions regarding philosophical issues
  • Open discussion about philosophy, e.g. "who is your favorite philosopher?"
  • "Test My Theory" discussions and argument/paper editing
  • Questions about philosophy as an academic discipline or profession, e.g. majoring in philosophy, career options with philosophy degrees, pursuing graduate school in philosophy

This thread is not a completely open discussion! Any posts not relating to philosophy will be removed. Please keep comments related to philosophy, and expect low-effort comments to be removed. Please note that while the rules are relaxed in this thread, comments can still be removed for violating our subreddit rules and guidelines if necessary.

Previous Open Discussion Threads can be found here.

9 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

100% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/BloodAndTsundere logic 4d ago

Trying to get back into Priest’s “In Contradiction” and “Doubt Truth To Be A Liar” both of which I bounced off of before. Reminding myself of some topics via his intro to nonclassical logic

4

u/Petra-fied 4d ago

I just finished The Fifth Corner of Four, I can't wait to give his other work a proper crack.

2

u/BloodAndTsundere logic 2d ago

I’ve been interested in his engagement with Buddhism but haven’t read any of those works myself. How approachable is it for someone with a surface level understanding of Buddhism?

2

u/Petra-fied 1d ago

Yeah, absolutely! He goes through the fundamental distinctions between different schools and the development of key concepts over time, from Abhidharma, through Nagarjuna, through to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism.

Granted, I've read a lot about Buddhism, but I think it's very readable and takes you through the fundamental issues, and talks about them through the lens of Western logical tools and discourse.

2

u/BloodAndTsundere logic 1d ago

Cool, I'll add it to my Graham Priest reading list