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Art is a way of making somebody see, seeing the old world in a entirely new, extraordinary and coherent way. It can be an insight, a reduction, a complexion. Gogogo Airheart were a whirlwind of all at once. They were also a perfect example of what it means to be influenced without being recycled [...]

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G. Evans paper ‘The causal theory of names’ (in: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 47, 1973) offers a very interesting constructive critique of Kripke’s causal theory of reference. The arguments are based on a high variety of examples (some based on Gedankenexperimente, others are real cases) which usually contain some switch of reference for [...]

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As I work at the moment on the problem of proper names in philosophy, I opened a wiki page on this topic.
At the moment there is a map offereing a rough historical overview of philosophers dealing with proper names. I will also put (once finished) the slides for my upcoming talk at this place, as [...]

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Juliet Floyd: Putnam’s “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’”: Externalism in Historical Context
(published in Hilary Putnam / edited by Yemima Ben-Menahem, Cambridge University Press 2005)
Floyd’s paper begins with an overview of main characteristics of Putnam’s externalism which he offers in his “Meaning of ‘Meaning’”. She subsumes them under three major points:

Meaning “is object- or reality-involving”, in [...]

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Female Bodies - Male Bodies. My sister Sabrina is documenting her gender studies course and further reading with various mind and concept maps on her wiki (in german). They are, like usual for her, highly detailed and well structured. If you’re interested in this very important topic visit her and maybe open or join a [...]

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Jamie Steward and Caraleen McElroy’s latest dance encoys you into “la foret”. But only those who listen carefully, those who rub their eyes and look again, those prepared to eavesdrop. It’s personal and intimate. All intimate things need familiarity and trust. Can we trust these two forrest spirits? But too late, once caught in their [...]

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In a BBC article U.S. president Bush, being confronted with Al Gore’s engagement for transparent information on issues like global warming, justifies his jaunty environmental politics with a naive belief in the benefits of future technical attainments:
“New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have [...]

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Today I was reading a lot of “classical” essays about proper names. I began with Strawson’s “On Referring”. After Frege and Russell’s logicism Strawson turned the focus on usage and context in everyday language. Very obviously he’s a initiator of speach act theory but also Wittgenstein is not far.
Tyler Burge’s “Reference and Proper Names” presents [...]

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Dunja’s wiki contains beside other things information for her courses and some maps by us both, mainly on philosophy of science.

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Check out my philosophy wiki. You can find there a lot of mind and concept maps on various philosophical topics.

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