![]() More accurate but dry and dull is Frederick Copelston's 11-volume A History of Philosophy. Reason: The most popular history of western philosophy is Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, which is exciting but also polemical and inaccurate. Recommendation: The Great Conversation, 6th edition, by Norman Melchert I'll start the list with three of my own recommendations. Once, a popular author on Less Wrong recommended Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy to me, but when I noted that it was more polemical and inaccurate than the other major histories of philosophy, he admitted he hadn't really done much other reading in the field, and only liked the book because it was exciting. Rules #2 and #3 are to protect against recommending a bad book that only seems impressive because it's the only book you've read on the subject.
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