Damn, I must say that Humes Treatise makes for a pretty handy paperweight to use in order to keep open other books while I read them.

I really want to reread chapter 4 of Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds tonight, but I probably shouldn't and should read new dissertation materials instead...

It's amazing how much less you have the desire to give up and go to bed when the writing process is going well. Almost as stimulating as coffee.

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 ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Inland Empire (David Lynch's new flick) is pretty damn good. I recommend it to all.

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...

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...

I don't have essius posts all over my friend's page recently. Is the moon out of line, lol?

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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 ( Read more... )