# @dr.san__ on Instagram

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- **Account Owner:** San Choudhury (@dr.san__) — https://gondola.cc/dr.san__

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Philosophy is literally exercise for your brain and its super useful for developing critical thinking and analytical skills. If you wanna start your philosophy journey but don’t know where to start, here are a couple of recs:

🎓The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell: 
Honestly one of the easiest philosophy books written despite Russell himself being a logician. He introduces you to ideas from the likes of Decartse, Kant, Plato in an accessible manner, which will allow you to pretty easily grasp some of the most basic philosophical ideas. 
Just a note though, he doesn’t present these ideas chronologically but I don’t disagree with his presentation cuz I’m not too convinced that you need to approach philosophy chronologically for understanding it. 

Once you’ve warmed up to some basic philosophical ideas with Russell’s book, pick certain threads or philosophical ideas that you enjoyed and explore them further. 
But if you still can’t seem to settle on any threads yourself, then you can still approach philosophical texts chronologically.
So you can start with reading works by some foundational philosophers like: 🎓Complete Works by Plato, Edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson (Editor)
🎓The Metaphysics by Aristotle 

🎓Meditations of First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
Particularly interesting because of its focus on epistemological problems. Epistemology is essentially the theory of knowledge - how we know what we know, so of course for researchers who are obviously interested in the knowledge production process these kind of considerations are methodologically very relevant. 

🎓An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume:
Another book that you can read for further debates into questions such as where do ideas come from? How do we understand things? What is instinct, inspiration? He also really goes deep into the notion of cause and effect, and reading this text will make you very uncertain about the link between cause and effect. Again, another great book for digging into epistemological debates. 
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