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Summaries of my own contributions
Marilyn Strathern on artefacts as mere illustrations and my objections
No need for Voltaire? My observations on the Internet and cultural change
Summary of my clever objections to Carl Schmitt
No Bernard Williams, no problem? Summary of my free audit of University of Manchester student-staff economics disputes
Summary of my responses to Marilyn Strathern on a test of all technology
Summary of my objections to Simon Baron-Cohen's gender and autism theory
Summary of my contributions to explaining underrepresentation in analytic philosophy
Doctor Joe Horton's all-or-nothing problem, his solution, and my solutions to it
Um, er, Veronique Munoz-Darde's abolish the family problem and my solutions (Accent removed)
M. Strathern's paradox of the feminist anthropologist fieldworker and solutions
Summary of solutions to Laura Valentini's paradox of ideal theory
Summary of (most of) my criticisms of John Rawls
The paradox of anthropology at home and solutions to it: a handout and review
Summary of my criticisms of Kathleen Stock's Material Girls
Quotations for today and posterity
Ethics and political philosophy, summaries of others
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 secondary literature summaries
Bernard Williams on the idea of equality
Derek Parfit's mixed maxims objection to Kant
Derek Parfit's objections to John Rawls
Duties to nations
Ethics of care
A 19th century argument about 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?'
H.A. Prichard on promising
Hans Kelsen and the colony example
Hans Kelsen on the definition of democracy
H.L.A. Hart: an alternative Rawls lexicon entry
Jacques Derrida on forgiveness
Joseph Raz's argument against strict consequentialism
Joseph Raz on number problems in morality
Joseph Raz on euthanasia and a life not worth living
Joseph Raz on promises
Little-known objections to utilitarianism
Nationalism and the original position
Objections to John Rawls's difference principle
Philippa Foot on morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives
Taxation is on a par with forced labour (Robert Nozick)
Nozick's objections to Rawls
Reflective equilibrium in political philosophy and its critics
Rousseau against the right of the strongest
Rousseau against slavery contracts
Rousseau on property recognition in the state of nature
Susan Okin, the monogamous family and John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
The claim that morality is subjective
The miners paradox
The paradox of self-ownership
The theory of self-interest in Notes from Underground
Two fair-play theories of political obligation
Well-known objections to utilitarianism
Other philosophy summaries
A counterexample to Moore paradox assertions
A priori knowledge of contingent propositions
Are video games art? Online literature summary
A summary of John Searle's main contributions
A circularity in the definition of being false
Concepts, conceptions, and disagreement
Donald Davidson's translation argument against alternative conceptual scheme
F.H. Bradley on responsibility, free will and determinism
Galileo's logical objection to heavier objects falling faster
Gettier Cases and Adept Belief
Gettier cases and logic
Locke on language and Derrida's paradox of communication
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
Scheme-content dualism, coherentism and John McDowell's third position
Summary of David Hume's contributions to philosophy
Summary of some criticisms (from others) of Thomas Kuhn on science
Summary of some responses to Donald Davidson's omniscient interpreter argument against skepticism
The ontology of reasons
The theory of self-interest in Notes from Underground
The view that introspectible mental states determine meaning
There is at most one world
Thomas Nagel's view that Davidson is an idealist
Ludwig Wittenstein on I may be dreaming
Linguistics summary
It is raining somewhere
Classics summaries
R.G.Collingwood on the ancient Greek worldview
Summary of reviews of Mary Beard
Anthropology summaries
Andrew Lang's criticisms of Frazer
Claude Levi-Strauss, social constructivism and syllables across languages (accent removed)
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
Max Gluckman's objections to Sir James Frazer
Social anthropology summary: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown's objections to Sir James Frazer
R.R. Marrett's 1923 objections to Frazer
"Summaries" of anthropologist Sarah F Green's writings
The social organism analogy in British anthropology and analytic philosophy
Off the verandah? A puzzle from Malinowski and British social anthropology
The paradox of anthropology at home and solutions to it: a handout and review
Economics summary
Transitivity of preferences and well-known counterexamples
Literature summaries
Richard Aldington review summaries
Sindya Bhanoo short story summaries
Graham Greene short story summaries
R.K. Narayan short story summaries
V.S. Naipaul short story summaries
V.S. Naipaul quotations
Saki short story summaries
Sam Selvon short story summaries
Milan Kundera secondary literature summaries
Rose Tremain's autobiography, Rosie, summarised
Essay writing
Four common essay writing errors (out of date now?)
Common referencing errors (out of date now?)
Video games
Lario's Space Garden (2015)
Pixies (1996 - zip file; DOS game)
Rock Paper Scissors (2015)
Sicko Bricko (2021)
Available on Researchgate
On Asha Bhosle
Still cute? Lesser essays of 2025, mostly social anthropology
On custom and madness: a somewhat French essay, I suppose
A booklet of some of analytic philosophy's faulty reconstructions
The meaning of my "likes" on Instagram: a memory system... For Doctor Lucy McDonald
Any donkey could? Amusing essays on Western culture before the 20th century
On the greatest happiness for the greatest number: beyond Anderson Woods' 1925 opposition
On the introduction of a new term
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
Beyond journalism: what is social anthropology of the British National Health Service? A response to Degnen, Tyler, and Blamire
Unmurky: politician Lucy Powell's transparent Instagram world
The best movie role, but why only one quote for preservation by Diane Keaton
Future people: multiculturalism and the one Kundera book you will actually read, if you read any?
From my homemade artificial intelligence essay writer? A response to the 2010 paper "Are Psychiatric Kinds Real?"
What it's like to be a philosopher? A thinly-fictional response to reading about the death of John Searle, by means of an imitation of R.K. Narayan
WELCOME TO CRUMPSALL: the undramatic nature of anthropology at home
For anthropologists? The worldview of analytic philosophy - the method as technology assumption (the camera assumption)
The art machines: an imitation of Laura Riding
Go to Canada essay: is kinship unimportant in the West?
A timeless and democratic essay, or not: who is the cleverest?
"But we're philosophers": social anthropology essay on aesthetics at the University of Manchester
A mostly academic pastiche book (extended)
Can philosophy cure madness? Three approaches
The paradox of entertainment wrestling: four solutions
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To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
To have your cake and eat it: social practices in British society and beyond
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My PhilPapers page
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