Here's a quick, fun, path, that goes all over the place, but covers lots of areas, while being accessible to a tech guy:
1) Plato's dialogues. They are easy to find, including online, and easy to read.
A.N Whitehead once commented on Plato’s thought: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them”.
And that's not some liberal arts philosopher that doesn't understand science. That's the genius writer and mathematician A.N Whitehead that worked with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica.
2) Aristotle, The Metaphysics
3) Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
4) David Hume's: A Treatise of Human Nature and/or An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
5) Nietchze, The gay science (meaning "the joyful science")
6) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
1) Plato's dialogues. They are easy to find, including online, and easy to read.
A.N Whitehead once commented on Plato’s thought: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them”.
And that's not some liberal arts philosopher that doesn't understand science. That's the genius writer and mathematician A.N Whitehead that worked with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica.
2) Aristotle, The Metaphysics
3) Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
4) David Hume's: A Treatise of Human Nature and/or An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
5) Nietchze, The gay science (meaning "the joyful science")
6) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
7) Existentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre
8) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
9) Against Method, Paul Feyerabend