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Time Dependance

We begin with time by reducing it to causality. In various forms of logic, this can be reduced to the equation ‘if p, then q‘. Yet, this is known to be problematic as there is no proof for p, it is always assumed. The quest for p is an old one. Perhaps the most famous [...]

Annual Review

I’ve been preparing my thesis for an upcoming annual review due Friday. While the review only asks for a writing sample of 5,000 – 10,000 words, I’ve been wanting to see how much of my thesis I have written in some form. Besides completing a new section for my sample, I’ve also gone through all [...]

Save Middlesex Philosophy

One more thing off of my todo list. Here’s my letter to the Middlesex administration regarding the closing of their highest rated programme and suspending some staff members and students for peacefully protesting the closure. (NB: BTW, if you have not heard of this closure, please support the campaign. Dear Members of the Board, I [...]

New Phone Service

Recently, a friend of mine gave me a BlackBerry to use as the cheap phone I was using had horrible reception indoors (because it cannot transceive 3G signals). As I wanted to look and see what it would cost to use the full BlackBerry services, I thought I’d look in both the US and the [...]

2010 Gifford Lectures

Gianni Vattimo is giving this year’s Gifford Lectures series, hosted by the University of Glasgow. It will be four lectures, from Monday 7th June through Thursday 10th June at the university. Like all Gifford Lectures, these are free and open to the public. The four lecture titles are: Tarski and the quotation marks of His [...]

Corporate Persons

Ever since the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have the right to spend money on political free speech, I have been consciously looking at the issue of corporate personhood. While I’m against perceiving corporations as legal persons, I think there is a problematic area in the enforcement of law. If we are to refuse seeing [...]

Say ‘No’ to Socialism!

From the /b/tards on 4chan:

Entitlement Madness

One of the key phrases being wielded in response to the House’s second passage of the healthcare insurance reform has been ‘entitlement’. This struck me as strange because ‘entitlement’ is typically used to denote benefits being given to a specific group (e.g. military veterans, Midwest farmers, displaced victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, etc). Yet [...]

Capitalism and Social Justice

Enough cannot be said of Glenn Beck’s urging of people to run from any church that advocates social justice. It’s not because Beck’s statement can be reduced to leaving a church (or even Christianity or religion altogether), but that it is the implicit presumption of capitalism. While most of Beck’s ‘Republitarians’ want to remove government [...]

No Burden, No Proof

I want to get rid of the ‘burden of proof’ mentality. If only one side in an contract ‘negotiation’ has a ‘burden of proof’, then it is not a negotiation. Rather, both sides should be seeking to prove their case (which also implies that an invalidation of the other is not always a valid proof). [...]