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Ethics
and political philosophy summaries:
A. John Simmons on tacit consent and political obligation
An argument against a basic right to democratic say
Counterexamples to ought implies can
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls and its critics
Bentham's argument for the principle of utility
Bernard Williams on the idea of equality
Daniel McDermott on fair-play obligations
Derek Parfit’s mixed maxims objection to Kant
F.H. Bradley’s argument against the
equality of human beings
F.H. Bradley's criticisms of utilitarianism
F.H. Bradley’s note on freedom
F.H. Bradley on responsibility, free will and determinism
F.H. Bradley on 'Why should I be moral?'
Hans Kelsen and the colony example
Hans Kelsen
on the definition of democracy
Jacques Derrida on forgiveness
Joseph Raz's argument against strict consequentialism
Joseph Raz’s
criticisms of Simmons’ definition of consent
Joseph Raz on number problems in morality
Joseph Raz on euthanasia and a life not worth living
Little
known objections to utilitarianism
Philippa
Foot on morality as a system of categorical imperatives
Robert Nozick’s argument that taxation is on a par with forced labour
Rousseau against the right of the strongest
Rousseau against slavery contracts
Susan Okin on the gender system, the monogamous family and A Theory of Justice
The claim that morality is subjective
The theory of self-interest in Notes from Underground
Two fair-play theories of political obligation (George Klosko)
Well-known
objections to utilitarianism
Other
philosophy summaries:
A counterexample to Moore paradox
assertions
A
priori knowledge of contingent propositions
Circularity
in the definition of falsehood
Concepts, conceptions and disagreement
Donald Davidson on translation
and alternative conceptual schemes
F.H.
Bradley on responsibility, free will and determinism
Galileo’s
logical objection to heavier objects falling faster
Gettier cases and adept knowledge
Jacques Derrida’s argument against
what can be heard is only sound
On an argument for the impossibility of miracles
Radical interpretation and alternative conceptual schemes (Donald Davidson)
Scheme-content dualism, coherentism and John McDowell's third position
The theory of self-interest in Notes from Underground
The view
that introspectible mental states determine meaning
Thomas Nagel's view that Davidson is an idealist
Wittgenstein on 'I may be dreaming'
Linguistics summary:
History summary:
R.G.
Collingwood on the Ancient Greek worldview
Anthropology summaries:
Claude Levi-Strauss, social constructivism and syllables across languages
Marilyn Strathern on the facts of English kinship
Marilyn Strathern on the concept of society is theoretically obsolete
Origins of anthropology: arguments for and against fieldwork
Economics summary:
Transitivity
of preferences and well-known counterexamples
Essay writing:
Four common essay writing errors
Ten common referencing and
bibliography errors
Computer
games:
Philosophy definitions and summaries from others:
Autonomy as self-authorship, a
brief history (by Ben Colburn)
C.D. Broad on Christian
propositions about Jesus
C.D. Broad on having a conscience
C.D.
Broad on the ordinary understanding of material objects
C.D.
Broad on the various meanings of the term ‘unconscious’
Definitions
from analytic philosophy (various)
F.H.
Bradley’s regress (by Graham Stevens)
Four shared commitments of
Rudolph Carnap, W.V. Quine and Hilary Putnam (G. Ebbs
and S. Verhaegh)
Frege’s puzzle (by Mark Kalderon)
G.E. Moore’s open question
argument (by Mark Kalderon)
Joseph Raz
on autonomy (by Jonathan Quong)
Locke’s theses about language (by Michael Morris)
Mill’s argument for utility (by David Brink)
Peter Marton’s notes on Plato’s Crito
R.G Collingwood on the Ionian science
of nature
Sidgwick’s dualism of practical reason (Derek Parfit)
The foundationalist argument for intuitionism (R. Crisp)
Poems
from others:
All Day
I Hear the Noise of the Waters, by James Joyce
Annabel
Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe
“Broad Gold, The
Evening,” by Anna Akhmatova
Catch
of the day, by Finuala Dowling
I
am not seaworthy, by Toni Morrison
I’d Love to be a Fairy’s Child, by
Robert Graves
Lady Russell’s poem about
metaphysics
Musée des Beaux Arts, by W.H. Auden
Remember,
by Christina Rossetti
She Weeps
over Rahoon, by James Joyce
Stallion, by Claude Colleer Abbott
Strings
in the Earth and Air, by James Joyce
To a Skeleton, by Anna Jane Vardhill?
To my Subliminal Self, by
Thomas Thornely
The
Bee’s Song, by Walter de la Mare
The Cruel Moon, by Robert Graves
The Mermaid, by Stephen Southwold
The Wind’s Summons, by Graham R.
Tomson
Translation of a Sappho Fragment
Stories
from others:
Charlemagne and the ring, as retold
by Italo Calvino
Cleobis and Biton, as retold by Robert Graves
Gottwald and Clementis, fragment from Milan Kundera
The
Knock at the Manor Gate, by Kafka
The lazy science, as retold by Italo Calvino
The onion parable, as retold by
Dostoevsky
The sea slug myth of the Tikopia
The Kind-hearted She-elephant,
by George T. Lanigan
The story of headless Hugh, as
retold by Sir James Frazer
The third night, by Natsume Soseki
Literary
pastiches and parodies (poems and stories):
A Song, imitating Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
On a carpet of leaves
illuminated by the moon, by Italo Calvino
Other
material from others:
Gaston Bachelard
on Edgar Allan Poe
Gertrude Stein explaining why she
said, “A rose is a rose is a rose.”
The secret of the success of
Charlie Chaplin, by Wyndham Lewis