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[22 Dec 2007|08:22pm] |
Per Request of Uncassiel.
Hopefully I will get through all of this, not sure I will use all of it. Some of it I read already.
Kripke
'Identity and Necessity'
Naming and Necessity
Nathan Salmon
Reference and Essence (parts of it at least)
'Modal Paradox: Parts and Counterparts, Points and Counterpoints.'
'Impossible Worlds'
'Crossworld Identification and Stipulation'
'The Logic of what might have been.'
Scott Soames
Beyond Rigidity (parts of it)
Graeme Foerbes
The Metaphysics of Modality (parts of it)
Ted Sider
Four Dimensionalism
'All the world's a stage'
'The Ersatz Pluriverse'
'Global Supervenience and Identity Across Worlds and Times'
Alvin Plantinga
'Transworld Identity or World-bound individuals'
Hilary Putnam
'The Meaning of 'Meaning''
David Lewis
On the Plurality of Worlds
David Kaplan
'How to Russell a Frege-Church'
'Transword Heir Lines'
Roderick Chisholm
'Identity Through Worlds: Some Questions'
Teresa Robertson
'Possibilities and the Arguments for Origin Essentialism'
'Essentialism: Origin and Order'
Teresa Robertson and Graeme Forbes
'Does the New Route Reach its Destination'
Guy Rohrbaugh and Louis DeRossett
'A new route to the Necessity of Origin'
'Prevention, Independence and Origin'
Other stuff, possibly
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[14 Dec 2007|10:00am] |
What are you doing for Christmas.
Looks like I will be spending my break reading Reference and Essence by Nathan Salmon, rereading On the Plurality of Worlds, reading some related stuff by Sider and then getting my ass kicked around by the current literature on the essence of origins, haecceitism and anti-haecceitism. Seriously. Not fun. What the hell was I thinking getting myself into this stuff...
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[01 Aug 2007|12:54am] |
Not surprisingly niether Stanford, Routlege or the Internet Encyclopedias online had a good short but comprehensive overview of Hume's take on general terms and abstract ideas. I looked through articles online and that helped a little. Below is my current explication of Hume's account of how custom functions in making particular ideas able to have general signification or representation. I was wondering if anyone thinks anything in here needs to be modified.
(In the following DofQQ abreviates Differences of degrees of quantity and quality. I use the abbreviation elsewhere in my full qual essay)
Hume, like Berkeley attempts to give his own account of general terms which does not invoke Locke’s abstract ideas. He argues that over time we note certain resemblances among several objects and in turn form a habit or custom of applying the same general term to each of them regardless of their differences. Thus we come to naturally associate with the term all of those resembling ideas of the objects that the term is customarily applied to. For instance the term “red” is a general term to which is annexed all those resembling ideas of red which differ only in their shade, etc (that is in their DofQQ). Each of them, though remaining particular in nature, thus acquires generality in its representation because in using the term “red” the mind is disposed by habit to “revive” in the imagination any one or a small number of those resembling ideas depending on which one the occasion of use calls for. This is how the general term “red” is applicable to all sorts of red objects which differ in shade etc.
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[01 May 2007|01:02am] |
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Inland Empire (David Lynch's new flick) is pretty damn good. I recommend it to all.
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[30 Apr 2007|04:08pm] |
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Studying philosophy of language and grading freshman papers is a terrible combination. There are so many things I am tempted to write on their papers...
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| Sweet |
[16 Jun 2006|05:34pm] |
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Got an 'A' in philosophy of language. I guess McGlone liked my way-too long paper. Nice.
I will write 12-15 page papers next semester. If I can't figure out how, I am dropping out of grad school...
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| O my gosh! |
[10 Jun 2006|06:46pm] |
I don't have essius posts all over my friend's page recently. Is the moon out of line, lol?
: )
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[29 May 2006|03:32pm] |
I think that all of these people, and I know I am leaving out many, are intelligent people that are quite compentent in at least some area in philosophy. Some more then others in specific areas. I don't understand why disagreement over certain views causes various people on this list to think of each other that they are total idiots. Maybe I am just naive. Maybe I am too much of a nice and charitable guy. Who knows...
Rationalist does not equal moron, neither does empiricist, neither does postmodernist, etc.
Anosognosia
Apperception
Cabrutus
DangerZooey
Dialogic
Epictetus_Rex
Force_of_Will
Gerbilsage
god_of_atheism
nonbeing
I_am_lane
Jalden
Jeffrock
JohnathonJones
Larvatus
Mendaciloquent
Nanikore
PhilosophyJeff
Pooperman
Sacundim
Sisyphus
thesleepyvegan
Unnamed525
Xiota
Zentiger
jupitah
amplimax
erislover
paulhope
thinkingthing
thisisnotsteve
booksoverbombs
synapsomatic
a_theist
catachrestic
jalden
essius
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[28 May 2006|08:05pm] |
Yes! The library have copies of both of Horwich's books and most of Davidson's.
And they are not checked out!
It's good to be the only one here at SUNY-UB that cares about Tarski and his influences!
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| Book Wishlist |
[27 May 2006|03:23pm] |
Hmmm. Some of these I should really own already
Paul Horwich:
Truth
Meaning
Scott Soames:
Understanding Truth
Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century (vols. 1 + 2)
Davidson:
Essays on Actions and Events
Problems of Rationality
Subjective, Objective, Intersubjective
Truth and Predication
Simon Blackburn
Spreading the Word
Truth (ed.)
Truth: A guide for the perplexed
Daniel Dennett:
Consciousness Explained
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
David Chalmers:
The Conscious Mind
John Searle:
Intentionality: An essay in the Philosophy of Mind
Christopher Peacocke:
A Study of Concepts
Hartry Field:
Truth and the Absence of Fact
Science Without Numbers</i
Etc, Etc...
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[24 May 2006|03:06pm] |
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Done with the paper, I am done I say. Tonight should be a booze night...now I just need those booze...
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[16 May 2006|05:11pm] |
So...I was able to get all my documents transferred onto a backup cd due to the kindness of the UB micro staff (they usually put you on wait no matter what).
So I got my grades in. Now all I have to do is get this paper done tonight. It's a doozy.
Good golly am I gonna sleep tomorrow.
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[12 May 2006|07:11pm] |
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EMO anyone, wtf? (See below ha!)
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[11 May 2006|12:34pm] |
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Guess who got a two day extension on his philosophy of language paper?
Yup, it's good to know that professor's understand how hard this grad school thing is!
(I also found out that 3-4 other people are also still working on papers whose 'deadlines' have past)
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[10 May 2006|08:15am] |
I have been watching the second half of the movie "Hostel" on the campus movie channels for the past week everyday.
There is something primal that really grabs me in the last 20 minutes of the movie.
I heard someone suggest that might have been more in keeping with the mood of the movie if Paxton had just ran right over the street gang of children as well during the car escape sequence in which he had previously ran down the two woman and guy that had set-up him, Ollie and Josh.
Although that might have been disturbing...it might have been appropriate as opposed to the contrived way the sequence played out (if you remember what car Paxton had got driven to the torture center in and the fact that the gum he ends up giving to the chidren was in that car, then you will know what I am complaining about)
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[09 May 2006|05:45am] |
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Dear email scam artists, if you are going to send me one of those scam emails where you ask me to fix my Amazon account...at least do so without putting about 20 other suny buffalo email addresses at the top in clear site. Why waste your time making something so obviously fake?
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[07 May 2006|02:55am] |
So I finally cracked the code. I finally, after a month of agony, do truly understand Tarski's definition of truth relative to a sequence for existential claims ('there is an x such that x is F') and universal generalizations ('for all x, x is F').
Considering that logic has been a weakness of mine until I decided to do this Tarski/Davidson paper this year, I think I deserve to give myself a pat on the back. Now that I wasted all month figuring out that...maybe I can actually put the damn essay down on the fucking paper!!!
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[04 May 2006|11:28pm] |
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We don't live in a sick world. We live in a beautiful and holy world infested by herds of stupid human beings...
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[03 May 2006|05:19pm] |
Why do the Red Sox always make terrible trades. We had a good young pitcher named Bronson Arroyo and we dumped him because we thought that the aging, injury prone assfart David Wells could continue to contribute.
So now the Boston rotation includes a David Wells who is on the Disabled list. His replacement? Lenny Dinardo, a guy who has been a RELIEVER all his life and has for the most part been a minor leaguer who was called up to the big league club on those occasions --due to injuries-- that a hole in the Boston bullpen needed to be filled (relief pitchers make up the bullpen.)! and who did we get for Arroyo?
A bumbling stumbling outfielder named Willy Mo Pena who hits a homerun everyone in awhile but plays the outfield like that really terrible kid from "the bad news bears."
Arroyo's stats:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6498
He has the fourth best ERA in the national league and the most wins so far, moreso then the Boston ace-pitcher Curt Schilling!
And I give you Mr. Pena's stats!:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=4450
And the kicker to all this, from ESPN online:
"Bronson Arroyo has as many home runs (two) as Wily Mo Pena, but he's done so in 22 fewer at-bats."
Albiet, Mr. Pena has added another homerun (up to 3!) since that was written, let us not forget that Arroyo is a pitcher and he only bats about 2-3 times a game and only on the days he starts which is every five days!
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| The will amazes me |
[01 May 2006|06:18am] |
Any other night when I have stayed up all night to try to do work I have ended up being shot. For some reason I am not so today. I have to finish my epistemology paper by Tuesday and I have to be prepared to give a summary of my paper for Metaethics. Good thing I did a presentation on my paper topic already.
Chalk it up to the power of human will.
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