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My name is Doctor Terence Rajivan Edward. In 2024, I had 2 brief poems accepted for publication. From 2009, I have also had 44 academic articles accepted for publication, mostly to do with philosophy and social anthropology, and some have cited them. From 2005 to 2019, I was employed at the Univeristy of Manchester, as a teaching assistant. I have also worked voluntarily at Natwest Bank, Oxfam, and Elizabeth Gaskell's House. In 2023, I was hospitalized for 2 months in Manchester, apparently suffering from a delusion of being Simone de Beauvoir. I planned to present some thoughts of my own, and sometimes do (with perhaps more important material online but not in any journal publication), but I somehow fell into a life chiefly of summarizing others. After all, what is one's own idea compared to a literature summary covering several ideas by several others? I wrote these summmaries myself, unless specified - it was quite hard work. I hope they are useful to you. Writing from Paris, 2026. (There are also some video games I designed and coded.) E-mail: x3x7@yahoo.com (My computer is not showing accented letters, e.g. from author names, so I have removed accents when summarizing.)
Recently added or updated: Shilpa Shetty, Gillian Evans, Sarah Green, Mary Beard videos, well-known objections to utilitarianism, Hume essays, my video essays, my Instagram pictures, Glock book summary, Covid mask literature summary, Philpapers papers, classics research summaries, changing British PM, faiytales, and more.
Poems I published
Bag without laptop
Family reunion... (See 2024 issue, if link not broken!)
(See also this complilation of haikus mostly from others)
Summaries of some 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 paradoxes of analytic philosophy's dominance (many from me)
Why read short stories?
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 remove, sorry)
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 (by me)
A. John Simmons on tacit consent and political obligation
Alasdair MacIntyre and liberalism: a literature summary
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
Summary of literature on covid masks
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
Summaries of essays by David Hume
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 (of others, summaries by me)
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
Hans-Johann Glock on analytic philosophy: summary of a book symposium
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 (of others, by me)
R.G.Collingwood on the ancient Greek worldview
Summary of reviews of Mary Beard
Mary Beard videos summarized
Objections to Robert Graves's The Greek Myths (from others)
Summaries of research on classics
Anthropology summaries (of others, by me)
Andrew Lang's criticisms of Frazer
Claude Levi-Strauss, social constructivism and syllables across languages (accent removed)
Summaries related to Gillian Evans
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 (of others, by me)
Richard Aldington review summaries
Sindya Bhanoo short story summaries
Useful quotes from Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde
Graham Greene short story summaries
Useful quotes from Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing
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
Other summaries (of others, by me)
Summary of responses to the Shilpa Shetty scandal
Why has Britain been changing prime ministers so fast?" A literature summary
Even Funnier Boy (Almost a novel, by me)
2. Derrida and Bourdieu
3. Freedom of speech and equality of opportunity
4. Ukraine and specialization
5. Chernobyl poetry and pastiche
6. Are lectures obsolete?
7.computer science history and Middlesborough
9. Unregistered improvements
10. What it's like to be a philosopher? A thinly-fictional response to reading about the death of John Searle
11. Any Donkey could do what V.S. Naipaul did? A Manchester-based attempt
12. Hume, Raymond Carver, and dream skepticism
More entries to follow.
Essay writing advice (by me, out of date now?)
Four common essay writing errors (out of date now?)
Common referencing errors (out of date now?)
Video essays! (by me)
On the anthropologists' criticism of Derrida (not a proper one, technical issues)
On leaving France and a Cartesian project
Is sociology a Mickey Mouse subject?
A problem with representing the common man in philosophy
Micropoem as if Derrida: In a possible world / I followed the rules / And entered the next level of "Desolee"
Artefacts as illustrations of a worldview and road names
Anthony Kenny (1932-2026) and analytic philosophers as masters of the college
On Anthony Kenny (1931-2026) and Derrida
Is football merely 22 men chasing after a ball?
On artificial intelligence and art
Problems with empirically-testing Quine and Davidson
The biologist's/medic's question: why are most of the great philosophers in low population times?
From Clifford Geertz to football
Milan Kundera, motorcycles, and utilitarianism
Explaining differing French and British attitudes towards the European Union: economics and identity
A foreign language paradox (in danger of trivializing misinterpretation?)
More on Jacques-Louis David and Saul Kripke
The meaning of European wildfires
On the relation between politics and pornography
Flashy writers and conservative readers
A use for rock'n'roll, rap music, stand-up comedy, etc.
Rock'n'roll music as communication aid
A new question? How does the craftsperson get credit? Does it not all go to the master strategist?
(Slightly refined text version of craftsperson-credit essay)
Derrida and the birth of a British gentleman's club?
Who invented the restaurant name "Indian Streat Food"?
After the football match, L'Art du Sexe
Exercising creativity in life
Zinedine Zidane and French feelings about the national team
On a postcard: is this art?
The prominence of fashion in France as opposed to England?
So which French theorist would you most like to chat to?
On the French landscape
Who decides to go on holiday
A translation exercise
Converstion in a restaurant in Paris
British politics and French politics these days
How the paranoid ought to choose a hotel
On the difficulty with learning French
A collective blind spot paradox
Penelope Keith and status in the good life
From Hume and Nietzsche to Wittgenstein and outsider art
From Aristotle on genius to Quine on translation
Football (soccer) and the myth of mad genius
What does it feel like having your mayor as president (or prime minister)?
On Norway's World Cup rowing ritual
On Milan Kundera on the battle for the ear
Eccentric businesses, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Alex Ferguson, utilitarianism, and the integrity objection
No Bell prize for Ann Jefferson?
Is British anthropology mere fashion?
On "We have lost many Einsteins in this country"
Marilyn Strathern's definition of anthropology at home and fieldwork experience
Davidson against alternative conceptual schemes? A failure of imagination?
Who was Georg Baselitz (28 January 1938-30 April 2026)
Beyond Gillian Evans on the white working class
Morality, numbers, and cultural relativity
Can others do faux Hume? Not here
What would the Ancient Greeks have thought of John Rawls? Part II
What would the Ancient Greeks have thought of John Rawls?
Hume on impressions and ideas: a mathematical variation
Liberalism and the fox
How should we react to new and hyped technology?
A hypothetical diaogue with the ruling class about abolishing private schools (not an essay)
Does the individual matter? High school stories
E.M. Forster's rounded characters versus cartoon modernists and beyond
A subversive interpretation of Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies
Speech patterns in an English school: no lobs?
Simon Baron-Cohen's gender theory, anthropology fieldwork, and hints
A German objection to Carl Schmitt?
On genius and madness (with Pope, David Hume, A.J. Ayer) [Note: it's Dryden, not Pope]
Video games (all designed and coded by me) and other programs
Pixies (1996 - zip file; DOS game)
Video of headless skateboarder from Pixies
Image from Pixies
Lario's Space Garden (2015 - movement issue my idea, and evil princess)
Rock Paper Scissors (2015 - someone else's game idea!)
Sicko Bricko (2021 - my idea)
BASIC code for Hysterkey (my idea)
Egg escape (my art idea)
Locatio game (BASIC code, my idea)
A game of O (BASIC code, my idea, good idea)
Stalker video game (surely done before, BASIC code)
Low battery game (surely done before)
Who needs Reform Party, Uk nationalist party (my idea)
Elizabeth Gaskell's house text adventure game beginning (um, my idea, in joke)
Java script code for graphs (My idea, someone suggesting putting this in the list)
Laser show (video of BASIC code)
A tree (my idea, video of BASIC code)
Wrap around addition (surely not a new idea, video of BASIC code)
Tree drawing software (my idea, video of BASIC code)
4 game (my idea, video of BASIC code)
Guess the fraction from decimal game (my idea, video of BASIC code)
Scattered search software (surely not a new idea, video of BASIC code)
Homemade encryption software (not working though)
Dot's adventure (my idea, video of BASIC code and game)
Hotel adventure (my idea, video of BASIC code and game)
Fairytales and similar stories (by me)
Doors
The Idiot's Shoes
The Pirate Cook
The Other Nose
***Eo and the Goddess*** (i.e., This is the best one)
The Little Prince
The Tortoise and Society
Torture and the Arctic prince (within essay)
Mushroom head story
Non-Darwinian bat myths
The chief's son and the craft goddess (fairytale opening only, within essay)
A research fairytale
The origins of football myth
Polyphony story
Tree-and-wizard story (not very good)
The ancient geographers (Good)
A 19th century style of story
The superstrong people myth (good)
The woman who thought she was a giant (gosh, a good one!)
Once there was a master (good)
The gentlemanly prince (influenced by Cinderella, Hans Christian Andersen, and carpet stories)
The beggar with golden teeth
The girl and the cloud (so-so; better than your story?)
The solid university declines
The cat and the poet (not very good)
The bull story
The British library dragon (not very good)
Croissant narrative (not very good, but first effort in French)
Origins of psychiatry myth
There are other ones on my Instagram site.
Some less-known fairytales and similar stories by others
Charlemagne and the ring, retold by Italo Calvino
This too shall pass, retold by Shabnam Nasimi
Headless Hugh, retold by Sir James Frazer
The sea-slug myth of the Tikopia, retold by Raymond Firth
The kind-hearted she-Elephant by George T Lanigan
The onion parable, retold by Dostoevsky
Picture questions, picture almost-essays, picture-with-poem, and animations (by me)
Character sketch: white postgraduate feminist philosopher in UK
Character sketch: your father
Micropoem: What to do / When narrow victories / Require more labour
Micropoem: Tessa Hadley's reading group / The groans / When I say "Faux Munro"
Micropoem: Cambridge Uni scandal pack / Comes with controversial chap / And judicious report?
Micropoem: Hotel Beauvoir / I lift up the toilet seat / And urinate
A critical race theory text adventure (BASIC)
First date / With an octopus / I complement her... eyes
Customer choice and 2 factor authorization (BASIC code)
Micropoem: After 7 years hoarding / You wonder / Is there enough micropoety on the Internet?
Micropoem: The flashy stories/ In a flash fiction journal/ A tax?
Micropoem: In a possible world/ I followed the rules/ And entered the next level of "Desolee"
Misattributed words: "I don't do anything unusual in my public life", C.D. Broad. And paradox reply.
Micropoem: an old website / haunted by / forgotten passwords
Old puzzle? Man who depends on secret societies to get into department mocks belief in their existence (With BASIC code)
When do psychiatrists sleep / Never/ They are always watching you
Micropoem ***: Waiter, with my salad / Some pieces of the moon please / Sans fromage
Hobbes: that's not what I call a hard copy
Micropoem: Scene from an ice cream van/ Okay / I'll put that on my website
Micropoem: A curtain the colour of mustard dangling? / Paris drape me / In smoke
Micropoem: Enjoying Parisian cuisine / Like a midtable manager / With the world's greatest players in reserve
Question: when you hire many couples do "singles" leave?
Micropoem: It is pointless answering your questions / You will only reask them / Like a comedian retelling their jokes
Alisdair MacIntyre and John Healey
Character sketch: behold assistant psychiatrist UK
Character sketch: behold Chinese psychiatrist UK
Character sketch: behold LSE school friend
Micropoem: The legendary cigarette smoke/ Of Paris/ Gone
Omar of Cambridge; Omar of Manchester
Micropoem: Small town mentality / Better to even / Become big city beggar
Micropoem (with BASIC coded graphs): Paris Maradona shop 2026/ Another business / I don't understand
Micropoem: Call from an unknown/ Phone number. Must / Be aliens, think the FBI
Micropoem: That cracking sound / My smartphone/ upon a magic carpet
Micropoem: She asks me what I do/ Then says/ "I didn't know people wrote poetry nowadays"
Question: psychiatrists are you made enough to think "People who don't follow my plan in life are mad?"
Marat: make sure you take care of your skin, son
Kundera and Boulevard Saint Michel motorcycle shops
Micropoem*** ("The judgment of wit"): For your delicate wit/ We appoint a stupid man of fair heart / And clever man without
Why not include the inference in the premise? (Competition)
Bathtub murder (competition)
Descriptivism about how names refer (competition)
Bernard Williams as Napoleon crossing the Alps, with a pancake
Why many intellectuals oppose capitalism (Competition)
Micropoem: Tomatoless salad/ I search the Internet / For old friends
Asian comedians, not one liner comedians
London: already Manchesterized? Multicultural?
Imitation of Laura Riding
Micropoem***: France's wildfires / Are nothing compared to / How you burn with stupidity
Micropoem: Spiral staircase / Still more trustworthy / Than any lift
Micropoem***: In the garden that is British politics / Each prime minister / A falling leaf
Micropoem: severe neckache / executioner's first day
Micropoem: kingly prime minister/ Democrats take a holiday
Was/is Keir Starmer a good man?
Pegasus joke (club classic?)
Micropoem***: Was she seduced or advised?/Two poets debate/ How the moon came to orbit the earth
Micropoem: Imparient anthologist/ Finds same poems/ In next journal issue
Micropoem: Encyclopedia of poets / Novelist mentioned / Only as friend
Micropoem science fiction***: The Sun is gone / Moth versus electric light bulb lives on
Micropoem: Under the chimney / Graffiti says / Explain me
Pessimistic Interpretation of Bob Dylan's Nobel prize
Question for University of Manchester
Balthus's Therese or John McDowell?
Simone de Beauvoir versus Nagel, Parfit, and I
Laura Riding's Internet popularity
Alternative to explaining economics to ordinary people
Imitation of Souvenir de Paris postcard drawing
Winnie the pooh joke: new or hidden?
Google versus Great Britain / United Kingdom
Storm Jameson on Ibsen imitators: what about Hans Christian Andersen imitators?
Apartment for sale advertisement (and BASIC code for a skyline, my coding innovation!!!)
Google versus the EU, Google versus the United Kingdom
Jameson's Ibsens and where are the Hans Christian Andersen imitations?
Souvenir de Paris
Name for this type? Starmer's people?
Mussee de mineralogie
Norway has fairytales too
Tips for writing a non-fiction book (I realized myself)
Your questions answered: why Helen Beebee did not go to Oxford
Has Kathleen Stock left the home?
Just another classy professional
Pas l'explication
Imagined NHS psychiatry flowchart and prediction (for me)
Wittgenstein and the common man, conversation (words by me)
On teaching us there are unmad geniuses
Bradley on the Clapham Omnibus?
The last famous translator (Constance Garnett)
Mid-tier highbrow world?
Treasure at the top of the ladder (animation)
"I don't want micro-inspirations" T-shirt
La Maison (animation?)
Icarus sans l'Illusion (animation)
(See also this one.)
The New World (animation)
David Hume and the professors
Train safety animation
Go up ladder for treasure (Pacman-Donkey Kong influenced)
Response to: do you think someone is following you?
David Lynch's Blue velvet and Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Teddy Beverley: pop music? why?
Club classic? Ear poem
The most effective action for winning?
Voting to become Australia
Why academics write on Madonna?
Highbrow literature covers
Have you seen this level? Pink Floyd
Why not more great philosophers today?
Robert S Lund, Diane Keaton...
Penguin Books: therefore reliable?
When reality TV began / Brown analytic
Aphorisms on genius, 2010 and 2026
Likely scandal, but overall good deal?
Don't artists paint their irritation?
Our genius
Books citing me
22: creative versus uncreative
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, classics plan?
World Cup micropoem: 48 team world cup / some of them / I could beat myself (Shouldn't be here?"
How many unfamous solid novels are there?
Club classic? Do I even need to smear this?
They want analytic philosophy without its mad atomism
Bradley, Schmitt, Sandel: the solid craftsman ethos today?
Iniesta: you'll see
Peter Goldie, Jane's Addiction, Bob Dylan
I too shall write my humane reflections on life
Can you have everything? And Oxford philosophy
Ranking So Solid Crews?
A personalized exception, Isabel Brooks?
What? No chance
Too young for war?
Brits in summer: Tino Giacotto imitation (or Sir James Frazer)
Fish pattern
Should black Americans become pro-philosophers?
American philosophers as soccer team
The retro deficit hypothesis
Joke: new or not? How many Renoirs are there?
Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory An Introduction: why not +1 better?
Hello
Anti-virus software makes and psychiatrists
Wayne Rooney, Shilpa Shetty, PhilPapers
Neutron star picture
Honderich's diagram versus "Did the past really change in 2012?"
Sporting analogies (Derek Parfit, Barcelona, T.H. Irwin, me)
One leaf tree (In BASIC)
North Manchester General NHS food
Winning over the swing voter problem (With Boris Johnson, my words attributed)
Lobs and University of Manchester conversations (animation, not essay)
Advertisement for the search engine google.com (text animation, BASIC code)
Rawls and mainstream economics
Craftsmanship and nationalism paradox (Lady Montagu Worsley)
John Rawls and female philosophers in Britain
Newton versus Mercury
Influenced Marina Hyde?
Advertisements for Toni Morrison novels (and BASIC code)
Mary Beard's analysis of The University of Manchester???
Advice from the British government?
Kuch kuch hota heir image
Hypothetical dialogue: Michael Rush and Helen Beebee on faux Hume
Hera paradox: too local to be a goddess?
Simon Blackburn inductive reasoning paradox
Goldhill family and Muslim refugee: played this level
Verena Stolcke and Jeanette Edwards conversation
Same type, different field?
Asif Qureshi, Shilpa Shetty, Me
Old stubbornness paradox probably
Prison if you kill a Parfit fan, you idiot
The other's discourse
My castle II
Dialogue with Simon Baron-COhen
Katy and Martian novel manuscript
Marilyn Strathern, Sally Jastrzebski, Jeanette Edwards
Physics picture addition
Philosophy: the centre (some of it)
Strawson town
Macarena tennis
The dancing program in Castle Wolfenstein
David Liggins and Sophocles
Richard Dawkins, Liz Greene, and C.D. Broad
Ages: distinguished female anthropologists
Suicidal Japanese fiction witers: died very young
Oxford philosophical essayists:died young
Insect disgust paradox
Modernists: good at school
Me and "Did you even pass high school?" question
Hume family members
Melissa Lane and my words
Crying diamond (BASIC code)
Credits: an Instagram film (by me!)
Mushroom power up (Super Mario) for a spider
What do you call a really brave crab? (animation)
Teaching problem and solution
Moore-Socrates dialogue
Russell-Socrates dialogue
Jeanette versus stapes (not my idea)
Milan Kundera portrait: alternative for Faber and Faber
Non-EU regulation duck-rabbit
404
University of Manchester conversation styles: lobs
South Park imitation (episode 6): it's just mathematics (Girton)
Even the flowers in this town spit at me
South Park imitation (episode 5): it's just mathematics (Lewis Carroll)
South Park imitation (episode 4): it's just mathematics
South Park imitation (episode 3): it's just mathematics
South Park imitation (episode 2): it's just mathematics
South Park imitation (episode 1): it's just mathematics
South Park imitation (pilot?): go to Whitwork Park for exercise
Dinosaur cake
Fish tins sketch
Rooney bash
Get Greenland animation (BASIC)
Imitation of Bellyutian (With BASIC code)
Bubbles
London School of Economics (BASIC)
Code to add a number of nummbers (QuiteBASIC)
Password code (BASIC)
Just flashy
Radio with pen in place of aerial
Chicken korma in a pot.
Papers available on Researchgate (by me, incomplete list)
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
Speech, writing, and the history of British social anthropology
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
Papers available on PhilPapers (by me, incomplete list)
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a book of aphorisms. (Not a paper.)
The other philosophy of social science and psychiatric diagnosis (appendix with code)
"If it cannot predict it is not science": I argue social anthropology can
The defence is a shambles: what does that mean?
What is a consolation goal? Analysis of language in a football match report of England versus Iran
Arguing with villagers: opposition to the idea of the lazy inhabitant of Elmdon
An alternative history: what if Derrida had just been accepted into analytic philosophy?
Utilitarianism versus the privileging of speech
Privileging writing over speech in teaching contexts
Must a sign be repeatable?
Coming of age in the Ivy League: on the social construction of myths of genius
Self-interest and the lack of English minor masters
Would legalizing torture result in too many cases of torture? Rare counterexamples
Papers available on academia.edu (by me, incomplete list)
The experience problem for John Rawls's philosophy: not really a problem? (With Frances Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Alex Ferguson, Spain, and more)
How much of a genius is Rawls? A dialogue referring to my no-nagging model
"The present relations of science and religion" versus "We are not going back to that!"
For Instagram: Are roads always named after important people?
An Edgar Allan Poe-like essay: sports perception and "abstract perception"
An interpretation of Jose Mourinho on Messi using QuiteBASIC code
"Lionel Messi is to soccer as you are to _____"?
"What are you going to say about anthropology and football?" Maybe disgust and social class, for 5 minutes (and coding homework)
Victorian social science and Elizabeth Gaskell's literary strategy, versus the Bronte sisters
Capitalism and the myth of genius
A mosquito biting a mountain? On the legacy of Bernard Williams (and coding homework done)
The major omissions of travellers: the host society's fault?
Diverse worldviews in an English city and maybe Venezuela too (fragment)
What is class brains, Joan Didion? And game coding homework done (Hysterkey)
Rock'n'roll as a direct art! Focusing Echobelly's Great Things lyrics and Laura Riding's poem Dimensions
What is the relationship between research and fairytales? Includes a fairytale
Speech, writing, Laura Riding
Writing over speech in research topics
Other stuff
Old index
My PhilPapers page
My academia.edu page
My Researchgate page
My Instagram page
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