So apparently, in the first decade of the new century, there arose a movement called "experimental philosophy". Here are the findings of my two minutes' worth of investigation into what this shiny new discipline consists of ( Read more... )

(Suppose my initials were DC.)

If I (DC) win the game, then nobody can truthfully think to themselves 'I win the game iff DC wins the game'. (Here, 'the game' is defined so that whoever thinks about the game loses ( Read more... )

There may or may not be a function f from the plane R2 to the set {'red', 'blue'} such that:
(i) Every vertical line contains at most countably many red points and
(ii) Every horizontal line contains at most countably many blue points.

If the continuum hypothesis is true then there exists a well-ordering of R of order type ω1 and we can define f(x ( Read more... )

P1. Having this or that mental content is constituted by a relation one bears to an external entity of some kind.
P2. It is possible for two people to be looking at the same external entity and yet have different experiences.
P3. 30 pages worth of (at best ill-motivated, at worst ludicrously unparsimonious1) pseudo-mathematical definitions, ( Read more... )