Monadology
Further to my previous post, I am very happy to report that the 21st Century Monads, true to their promise, have released two new songs. The first, ‘W.V.O. Quine‘ is haunting in its advocacy of a partial Quineanism. In a style reminiscent of Evanescence, we are first assured of the plausibility of mathematical realism, before being brought face to face with the full horror of denying the analytic-synthetic distinction. ‘All I want to do‘ is an upbeat number which had me tapping my toes, eve

Ephemera
Two things. Thing one is that, as mentioned in the last post, I am now editor of the second-order logic category at PhilPapers. I thought I may as well take the opportunity to recommend this resource to people. It is a very handy categorised goody-store of papers from most sub-disciplines of philosophy. Thing two is that the Monads have reformed as the 21st century Monads. To date they have songs about Moorean anti-scepticism and mereological composition. The must-have soundtrack to winter 2009, in my opinion. Those things, retrospectively, were both events. And even

Thesis stuff
As regular cyber-stalkers – I mean, readers of my ‘About Me’ page – will have noticed, I have narrowed the scope of the thesis. I am now going to focus solely on questions around second-order logic. At the outset, these seemed like a necessary methodological preliminary to the set theory project, but they have mushroomed somewhat in my mind. I’m going to focus on plural interpretations of SOL. Ultimately I want to look at strategies for extending these into the polyadic case. Right at the moment, I’m looking at objections to the status of SOL as logic. One of the benefits of plural interpretations has been thought to be that they offer an av

Dretske Zoo
Life imitates philosophy.

Northern Philosophy?
A new philosophy blog, which looks worth keeping an eye on has appeared. Philosophy North is the cyber-incarnation of the new Northern Institute of Philosophy at Aberdeen. Interesting stuff, even if I’m not at all convinced that Aberdeen satisfies ‘northern’.