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The title is a deliberate pun
13/06/25
I just posted a draft of a second paper on Mill's account natural kinds. In some ways, it picks up where the first one left off.
The first part of the paper is historical, looking at Mill on taxonomy and some of his nineteenth century critics. The second part applies lessons from his -
Slater on planets and mallards
13/06/24
Matt Slater has written a review of my book for Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews. It's dated 28june, but it went up on their website today.In his book, P. D. Magnus avoids the mismatch between scientifically significant categories and natural kinds by articulating an account of natural kinds that -
Of pixels and pictures
13/06/22
Last month, I presented a short version of my paper on musical works as historical individuals at our department's annual video conference with philosophers in Russia. My colleague Jason D'Cruz presented a paper about Goodman's distinction between autographic and allographic works, ap -
Chthonic prose
13/06/19
According to this silly widget, my academic prose most resembles the writing of HP Lovecraft. It was he, not I, who wrote:The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst -
Can't keep a Goodman down
13/06/14
I've been thinking lately about Nelson Goodman's distinction between autographic and allographic art forms. I'll recap the distinction briefly, then blog something trivial about it!
For autographic forms like painting and print-making, the only way of characterizing what co -
The professional bullet points
13/06/10
A moment ago, I posted an up-to-date version of my CV on my website.
I struggle to include as much information as possible while still making the document usable. I've tweaked the formatting a bit for the PDF version. Articles and presentations are now numbered lists, but numbered in -
Bon mots
13/06/02
Via Leiter, I was led to Gerald Dworkin's recent Kindle e-book Philosophy: A Commonplace Book. It's an amalgamation of witticisms, some of which are intended to make sincere points in a funny way, some of which are meant to be funny without actually endorsing the claim superficially made b
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The title is a deliberate pun
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