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Poetry, Prose and Performance Night, 6.00pm 25th November, Candid Arts (Blog)
Date: 18/11/2023 10:52 AM
Life Through Her Eyes 6 (Articles)
In a world where kids dream about being superheroes, there are kids who do not get to dream In a...
Propositions, Truth, Persons and Vagueness (Articles)
For me, the most interesting aspect of philosophy is the arguments. And there are arguments in metap...
Truthmaking (Articles)
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is the de Chirico mannequin of philosophy. He thinks all the time about th...
Philosophy of Play (4): Bataille on Surrealism and Manet (Articles)
I will use the word play to name what is at stake in Bataille’s writing on surrealism and on Manet. ...
Bridget Penney's Sonia's Book (Articles)
The object is simple. A small book, the record of another book, with plants pressed between pages an...
Note On Philosophical Perspectives By Wilfred Sellars (6): The Paradox of Analysis, A Neo Fregean Approach (Blog)
Date: 14/10/2025 04:45 PM
Hans Falla and Janine Paulette in conversation about Steve Finbow’s ‘The Mindshaft’ (Articles)
The 70s has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. It went astray, was destroyed, was extre...
Philosophy of Play (3): Bataille and Eroticism (Articles)
Eroticism is play in the specific sense that Bataille gives to excess. It is an assent to life that ...
How Pragmatism Reconciles Quantum Mechanics With Relativity etc (Articles)
Richard Healey is the pragmatist philosopher of physics who thinks there's a need to interpret quant...
How History Gets Things Wrong (Articles)
The theory of mind that story-telling relies on for its explanatory power is false. It’s not just th...
Philosophy of Play (7): Beckett's Trilogy (Articles)
Beckett’s Trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, can be entered as a continuous rite of pl...
Brief Notes on Audrey Szasz: “If You Can Bear This Then You’ll Pass the Test.” (Articles)
She is the novelist of filth gone far from home base and the ivory towers of holes, missing time, fu...
Playroom (3): The Capital Of the Ruins (Articles)
A few pages survive. Rubble was the measure of a city. They were composed as if for the air, though ...
Note on Philosophical Perspectives By Wilfred Sellars (3): Intentional Realism (Blog)
Date: 02/10/2025 11:08 PM
Strawson, Truth and Three-card Brag (Articles)
Watching the debate about truth between Peter Strawson and Gareth Evans is an intensely nostalgic ex...
Strawson and Evans on Truth (Articles)
It is hard to read the transcript of Strawson and Evans’ discussion as anything other than a staged ...
A Philosophy of Play (1): Bataille on Mr Nietzsche in "On Nietzsche" (Articles)
Bataille is a writer who says he writes out of fear that he might go mad, and who confesses to an ar...
Thinking About Mindreading, Mirroring and Embedded Cognition et al… (Articles)
He is the inter-disciplinary philosopher working through ideas we can read further about in A Theory...
Note on Philosophical Perspectives by Wilfred Sellars (7): Notes On Intentionality (Blog)
Date: 15/10/2025 07:29 AM
NOTE ON PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES BY WILFRED SELLARS (8): NOTES ON Theoretical Explanation (Blog)
Date: 20/11/2025 07:15 AM
Strawson's quasi-realism: explaining fact-stating from the bottom up (Articles)
It’s tempting to hail the 1973 filmed discussion between P.F. Strawson and Gareth Evans as a real-li...
Law (Articles)
Here he discusses the necessity of laws of nature, why their necessity is contingent, whether these ...
Epicureanism, Early Mods and The Moral Animal (Articles)
Here she discusses the link between Epicureanism and modernity, the seventeenth century's ontologica...
Hans Falla and Janine Paulette discuss Vampyr by Louis Armand (Articles)
Let us be grateful to Armand who makes us happy: a charming monster who makes our souls blossom. The...
The Critical Imagination (Articles)
His current work focuses on the questions of what makes something a good artwork, and whether good a...
Vagueness and Education (Articles)
Pornoptican: Milo & Ruby - The AI Podcasts (Articles)
Locke on Persons and Personal Identity, Plus Other Early Moderns (Articles)
My view is that Locke links a moral account of personhood (rather than a moral account of personal i...