Category Archives: General Philosophy

Some Papers I’m Sending Off Soon

Someone asked me about some papers I’m planning to submit for review in the near future. Answering the question is a bit hard to answer in 140 characters and this blog is just taking up space on the internet currently, so I figured I’d describe the projects here in at least a little more detail [...]
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Reductio my ass.

I’ve recently come to hold the view that artifacts have morally relevant interests (i.e. artifacts are morally considerable). I came to hold this view because I hold that etiological functions underwrites interests, artifacts have functions in the sense mentioned, and that there is no morally relevant difference between the functions of those artifacts and other [...]
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“What do philosophers do?”

It’s holiday time which means seeing family and friends which means I might be asked the dreaded question that all philosophers and philosophers-in-training must face at various times in their life: “What do philosophers do?”
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Kit Fine Made Me Cry A Little

With this quote about philosophy: Philosophy is the strangest of subjects: it aims at rigour and yet is unable to establish any results; it attempts to deal with the most profound questions and yet constantly finds itself preoccupied with the trivialities of language; and it claims to be of great relevance to rational enquiry and the [...]
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Teaching Intro

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Ellery Eells

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New Author at HI

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What is philosophy?

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Change of Emphasis

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philblogs.com

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