So, since I am auditing these courses and I do not have to do any work for them I figured I would instead keep track of what is going on here…any comments are welcome. Russell’s Argument Against Existence as a Predicate In the lecture’s on Logical Atomism Russell says, in response to a question, that the … Continue reading 09/05/07 Kripke
I have been thinking a lot about the argument of an earlier post (I Necessarily Exist), due to some excellent comments on the post and because I have been having some discussion via email with Kent Bach about it, and I think I understand what the argument is supposed to look like now. So what … Continue reading Logic, Language, and Existence
It is too bad that 3:AM magazine is now offline (for who knows how long)…just in case it doesn’t come back I found an archived version of my interview from back in 2012 —UPDATE— Richard Marshall is moving all of his interviews with philosophers to this new site. Shombies vs Zombies Richard Brown interviewed … Continue reading Shombies vs Zombies (my interview from 3:AM magazine)
In celebration of my ten years in the blogosphere I have been compiling some of my past posts into thematic meta-posts. The first of these listed my posts on the higher-order thought theory of consciousness. Continuing in this theme below are links to posts I have done over the past ten years reporting on talks/conferences/classes I have attended. … Continue reading Dispatches from the Ivory Tower
Well, the semester at LaGuardia is finally coming to a close (our schedule is out of step with the rest of CUNY). A lot has been going on and I have barely had time to do anything but since today is our reading day and I have a brief break before final exams come in, … Continue reading Recent Events
These are the most viewed posts at Philosophy Sucks! What is Wrong with Eating Meat God vs. The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Why does 1+1=2? A Simple Argument against Berkeley A Short Argument that There is No God Fuck You, You Fucking Fuck There is No Santa Claus Two Kinds of Semantics A Simple Argument … Continue reading Clip Show
The last three weeks have been extremely hectic for me. Starting with the Long Island Philosophical Society meeting (which was at LaGuardia and which I helped organize), and then the Pacific apa, and then when I got back the Felician Ethics conference (more about that later)…not to mention a pile of papers to grade and … Continue reading Reflections on Zoombies and Shombies Or: After the Showdown at the APA
The traditional version of the ontological argument is usually criticized for treating existence as a predicate. If existence is a predicate, then it is a predicate that always applies, and as Russel quipped that is the sign of a mistake. A predicate must be fail to apply to some objects in order to count as expressing a … Continue reading More on the Ontological Argument
I have been reading Jason Stanely’s paper on names and rigid designation from the Oxford Companion to the Philosophy of Language in the course of doing some research for my frigidity v. rigidity axe-grinding. It is an interesting and informative, though technical, introduction to issues about rigidity and I will come back to its relation … Continue reading Truth and Necessity
In the discussion of my post I Necessarily Exist Jason Zari pointed out Timothy Williamson’s paper Necessary Existants as a way of explaining how he was led to questions about logic and the proof of necessary existence. I had never read the Williamson paper and I made some comments/responses to his argument that I would … Continue reading Timothy Williamson on Necessary Existents
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