Man, that would make it all worth the lousy weather.

I was so waiting for you to comment.

I have the PhD and didn't bother buying the robes, so, er, so much for the cool outfit. Whoops!

Well, all right. But if you wanted to, you could have the cool outfit. With the stripes, and the nifty hat, and the much less stupid sleeves, and possibly the nifty colors! There were some very nifty-colored doctoral robes on stage today.

I'm sure I'll be talking to at least one of you later tonight.

::waits by the phone::

First you get the PhD, then you get the womens, then you gets the money ...

Wait. I never get this right.

Enjoy the pizza, Bob. My eyes somehow missed your Plantinga for Dummies recommendations, before. Thank you. I've marked the post.

My favourite easy-to-read textbook from philosophy was (I think) Existentialism for Beginners. It covered Sartre, Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Nietzsche. In fairly digestible snippets. And now I can't find it on Amazon. Hm, I might have got the name wrong.

Other than that I can't really remember the introductory textbooks. I just remember struggling to get through Leviathan and Being and Nothingness and such. Probably a good thing I dropped it in favour of archaeology.

My Intro to Philosophy prof made up his own intro text. We got a massive binder filled with articles and excerpts and pictures--it was cool as hell, actually. Probably illegal, but cool as hell.

My wish list has grown by leaps and bounds, although I'll probably use the library rather than Amazon for these ones. I love learning from other people's questions! And thanks Bob Bob!

I had to skip, but I landed right with a board visit from Bob Bob, now with added recs. Most excellent.

Ooh, and a fairly populist but very enjoyable read, so much so that I didn't think of it as a 'text' really, when this conversation started, is Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy.