Frank Ramsey: Shooting Star of Cambridge
My chum and collaborator Andrew Irvine reviews Cheryl Misak’s book for the TLS. Analytic philosophyAndrew IrvineCheryl Misakfrank ramseyphilosophy of mathematics
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Ways of Relating to the Mathematics of the Past
An interesting and novel invocation (context-wise) of Oakeshott by Michael Fried in The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics experience and its modesignoratio elenchimathematicsMichael FriedMichael OakeshottmodalityPhilosophy of historyphilosophy of mathematics
Hilary Putnam 1926-2016
It is notable that the so-called “new atheists” never did take on Putnam. Shows how lily-livered they really are, picking on the usual easy targets. Ditto for his critique of scientism. Putnam’s Mind, Language and Reality. Philosophical Papers, vol. 2. remains one of my favorite books. The Guardian obit. Martha Nussbaum on Putnam. EpistemologyethicsfunctionalismHilary PutnamJewish PhilosophymetaphysicsPhilosophy of Languagephilosophy…
Musil’s Imaginary Bridge
A fascinating paper. Der Mann ohne EigenschaftenImmanuel Kantphilosophical literaturephilosophy of mathematicsRobert MusilYoung Törless
The Imitation Game: The Philosophical Legacy of Alan Turing
The Critique Alan TuringArtificial intelligenceComputer Scienceconsciousnessphilosophy of mathematicsPhilosophy of mindthe imitation game
Russell’s “On Denoting”
Speaking of Davidson, here is a two-parter from Stephen Neale (a Davidson expert) on Russell’s seminal paper “On Denoting” published in MIND in 1905 and the ensuing philosophical debate centred around it. “On Denoting” is arguably the most important philosophical paper of the 20th Century, a paper one has to tackle if one is trying to…
Kant, Kästner and the Distinction between Metaphysical and Geometric Space
Here is a recent paper co-authored by a top-notch Kantian scholar (and much more besides), a man with two PhDs (earned, not honorary); one in applied mathematics and the other in philosophy (and no, not philosophy of mathematics or science), a man who has transcended the often trivial aspects of academic analytical philosophy and the…
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