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Saturday, 5 July 2014

Gödel: Proof, Truth & Meta-theory

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What is a mathematical theory ? We may define a theory as a set of axioms. Of course there needs to be more to a theory than that. What...

Platonic Mathematics

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Roger Scruton argues that the platonic position on the true nature of mathematics is basically based on four fundamental points. H...

Externalism in Broad Outline

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The thing we need to get out of the way is the idea that externalism has nothing to do with the "boring reason that we are causa...
Thursday, 3 July 2014

David Lewis’s ‘Possible Worlds’ (1986)

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i) Quantifying Over Anything ii) Quine, Lewis and Meinong's Jungle iii) Necessity iv) Possible-worlds Realism v) Existence...

Philosophical Notes (1)

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1) ‘Light-waves and the different mixtures of lengths of wave emitted’ are the causes of colour; though not themselves colo...
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