Some of my books, and stuff
Pretty much all the books I own can fit into 3 different categories; primary source works of philosophy, mathematics textbooks & those big old books with loads of pictures. You might be able to consider fiction/poetry as another category but it's by far the smallest.
I read none of them.
Here is my good-reads where I've listed the actual books that I've actually read, https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/112453643-josiah
Some context: I have dyslexia & was put off reading from a very young age. Reading didn't ever come naturally to me the same way shape and volume do, which was terribly unfortunate because all the things I ever wanted to know as a boy where hidden in books. Reading and writing have both been a constant battle for me, I almost managed to completely avoid reading anything until 2018. The only actual book I had read until them from start to finish had been James and Giant Peach, I bloody hated it & it took me about two weeks. To top it all off the 'reward' for reading the book was a meagre 3 hours of video game time, which isn't actually a great intensive because at that time I was allowed to play video game on Saturday if my chores where done anyway? Whatever...
Anyhow, In 2018 I heard Yung Lean mention the book 1984 for whatever reason in one of his songs, so I drove to Dymocks, bought the book, and read it right through. It's hilarious to think about that being the situation that got me over my lifelong fear(?) of reading.
Philosophy
I grew up in a Christian family and was curious to see if the Christian morals stand up to reasoning about life/virtue without the existence of God. Instead of finding this out I've just accepted everything I've read at face value and felt very clever when I can comprehend a sentence or paragraph. Its fun enough and very good to enjoy such things especially since I've read that happiness is the the supreme good.
I remain a Christian. In my late teenage years to early adulthood I had a solid half decade-ish period of being not a Christian. Feel free to talk to me about it in real life, I wont be able to answer any hard questions, But I'm very good at smiling!
My favourite psude LARP book(s)
I tried really hard to read the critique over the course of about two months. I thought I had a really clear idea about the work going into it having read the chapter about Kant in Will Durants book & having watched Robert Paul Wolffs lecture series on the Critique as well.
It turns out the book is 100% cracked and I am actually sub 100iq so it was just too challenging for me and I stopped just over halfway through the book. I have NO IDEA what the hell its even about, something to do with transcendental analytic of the a posteriori categorical imperative????
PS: I am looking for a book that brides Kant and Hegel. Plz get in touch if you find any lost works about it. Also, not my copy of the Phenomenology.
Latest haul from the 2nd hand store lol. Hardly cheaper than buying new (not including postage)
I suppose this is another category; the Penguin section
Mathematics/Science
This section is still WIP.
I don't have my books particularly organised at present because I'm regularly randomly flicking though them pretending to read to get a hit of that sweet, sweet dunning kruger effect
Some of my maths textbooks
My best book
My newest book
Giant Picture Books
I'm about to go through these and re-organise them all. But that's gonna be after I organise my maths/science books
(EXTRA SECTION) Melbourne Books
SHOUT OUT TO MY GIANT COLLECTION OF PICTURE BOOKS I BOUGHT IN MELBOURNE FROM SAINBURYS CAMBERWELL FOR PENNIES.
Photo of Alex and Sean in Sainburys Camberwell circa 2017
My dogs books
Danny boy is an avid reader and philosopher. He has had several of his articles published in Nature and in Science. He is the recipient of a Fields Medal for his mathematical work on group theory, where he demonstrated that disposable cloths must be food since they smell like food.
The philosopher king, Danny Boy
