Details of DFW's work in philosophy. His use of Montague semantics to undermine an argument for fatalism. Author makes interesting connections with a tension in his literature.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability to control the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one -in some cases creating hollow atoms.
Subatomic particles become atoms, atoms assemble into molecules, molecules assemble into small objects, and so on up the scale until we get galaxies, ...
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Philosophy has six sections – World, Mind and Body, Knowledge, Faith, Ethics and Aesthetics, and Society – and every one is written by a professor in the ...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined how durable four-component glass is when aluminum atoms are replaced by boron atoms and vice versa. By determining the effect of these elements, scientists can better predict how water interacts with minerals and glass. Water-glass interactions matter to people working to glassify liquid and sludge-like waste from nuclear weapons into a safer, solid form. Water-mineral interactions are also of interest to geochemist and agricultural scientists who want to know how minerals weather.
"Should philosophy have something to say to non-philosophers? Should philosophy be pursued only by those trained in philosophy? Should academic teachers of philosophy consider themselves philosophers in virtue of the fact that they teach philosophy? And should analytic philosophers deny that continental philosophers are philosophers at all, or acknowledge that they represent different modes of philosophizing? Cogito poses some big questions to four prominent British and US philosophers." (Jonathan Barnes, Myles Fredric Burnyeat, Raymond Geuss, and Barry Stroud.)
I was reading the Normative Ethics volume in the great "5 Questions" series from Automatic Press, and was struck by this passage from the conclusion of the interview with Jeff McMahan (Rutgers): I am highly optimistic about the prospects in...Brian Leiter
I would like to welcome Justin Donhauser to the ranks of Buffalo Philosophy contributors. Justin is currently a PhD student in the philosophy department at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His chief interest is in analytic metaphysics, particularly the ontology of spacetime and dimensionality. In his off time he is a drummer/guitarist/vocalist for the local band Stockholm. If he gets around to putting up a homepage, we'll add a link to it.noreply@blogger.com (Adam Taylor)
