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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
A counterexample to ought implies can
A nineteenth century argument about
the equality of human beings
A reconstruction of G.E. Moore’s open question argument
A Theory of Justice and its critics
Bentham's argument for the principle of utility
Bernard Williams on the idea of equality
C.D. Broad on having a conscience
Daniel McDermott on fair-play
obligations
Euthanasia and a life not worth living (Joseph Raz)
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
Philippa
Foot on morality as a system of categorical imperatives
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
Taxation is
on a par with forced labour
The claim that morality is subjective
The foundationalist argument for intuitionism
The mixed
maxims objection to Kant
The theory of self-interest in Notes from Underground
Two fair-play theories of political obligation
Other
philosophy summaries:
A counterexample to Moore paradox
assertions
A counterexample to ought implies can
A priori
knowledge of contingent propositions
A
reconstruction of Frege’s puzzle
A reconstruction of G.E. Moore’s open question argument
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 foundationalist argument for intuitionism
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:
Notes 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
Essay writing:
Four common essay writing errors
Ten common referencing and
bibliography errors
Computer
games:
From
others:
Annabel
Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe
“Broad Gold, The Evening,” by Anna Akhmatova
Charlemagne and the ring, as retold
by Italo Calvino
Cleobis and Biton, as retold by Robert Graves
Gaston Bachelard
on Edgar Allan Poe
Gertrude Stein explaining why she
said, “A rose is a rose is a rose.”
Gottwald and Clementis, fragment from Milan Kundera
Lady Russell’s poem about
metaphysics
Musée des Beaux Arts, by W.H. Auden
Peter Marton’s notes on Plato’s Crito
The Cruel Moon, by Robert Graves
The Ionian science of nature, by R.G.
Collingwood
The
Knock at the Manor Gate, by Kafka
The lazy science, as retold by Italo Calvino
The onion parable, as retold by
Dostoevsky
The secret of the success of
Charlie Chaplin, by Wyndham Lewis
The story of headless Hugh, as
retold by Sir James Frazer
The third night, by Natsume Soseki