Help with reading & taking notes on philosophy texts

Here are some useful guides to reading philosophy texts and taking notes on them. Many of these give basically the same advice, but in different ways.

 

Reading philosophy & taking notes

I think this blog post from Falasafaz! Links to an external site. has good tips on reading philosophy and taking notes.

• This 8 minute video has more or less the same content as the above blog post, but in video form: How to Read Philosophy Links to an external site.

This blog post from a student at University of Edinburgh Links to an external site. has some good ideas about reading and taking notes on philosophy texts.

This blog post provides four simple but important tips Links to an external site. on what to take notes on when reading philosophy (or when attending class!).

This set of guidelines from Jim Pryor Links to an external site. for reading philosophy is also good. (this site seems to be down as of Dec. 31, 2018; it might come back up so I'm leaving the link here).