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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 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:
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
A Song, imitating Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“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
Other material from others:
Gaston Bachelard
on Edgar Allan Poe
Gertrude Stein explaining why she
said, “A rose is a rose is a rose.”
Persephone’s delusion by Robert
Klee
The secret of the success of
Charlie Chaplin, by Wyndham Lewis