Videos: Reading The Dream of Reason

In these five screencasts (8 hours), I comments on The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb. Learn about different as I demonstrate RSVP (rapid, serial, visual presentation), skimming, text-to-speech, reading topic sentences, rapid skimming with text search, and regular reading. Learn to and pursue interesting tangents as I demonstrate it. Get a . And hear my philosophical thoughts on the material I read (the Aristotle and Heraclitus chapters) and on issues that come up like Alexander the Great, poor writing, or related material by Karl Popper.

I’ve learned a lot about how to do philosophy effectively, especially reading, writing and thinking. It’s complicated. And I now do lots of things well  without conscious attention. I figured out how to do them in the past, and refined them then, and no longer give them much thought unless a problem comes up. Due to the complexity, plus developing lots of knowledge in the past that isn’t on my mind now, . And even if I could write a list of 500 reading tips, it’d be hard for you to take in and use the information. Videos are one of the ways I try to you what I do, so you can see for yourself and notice ways it’s different from what you do, and learn to use some of the things I do.