Edgar Saltus! The Anatomy of Negation is a delightfully weird text written by a true American weirdo.

Having discovered Jacques Ellul well after college, I was surprised I had never heard of him when majoring in philosophy.

Derek Parfit is similarly not underrated within philosophy, but he is certainly underrated outside of it. *Reasons and Persons* is genius and incredibly provocative. It poses problems that I didn't even realized existed before I read it. The footnotes to this book can also give you a "Who's who" of the last few decades of analytic philosophy, especially in ethics. I feel like most philosophers really only trickle out into the (educated) mainstream world once they are recognized within the "canon," even if they make interesting arguments. N. B.: I'm not a philosopher, nor do I have any formal training in philosophy.

xdye

3 days ago

I'm well familiar with the name, but I'm pretty sure I've not yet read any of his works. Maybe I'll give that book a shot sometime.

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