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“To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in the demolition of society”

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Monday and Tuesday I did my two days long lasting “task” in adaptive logics for my pre-doctoral application at University of Ghent. I was handed out four different papers at Monday 10am and a question on which I was supposed to work, so that I present my results Tuesday 4pm.
So I worked busily, so that [...]

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The Inn has her magic moments. Completely took my breath away this lunch break.

Have a look at more pictures at:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/hermeschris/tags/passau/

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Yesterday it was time again for the party of the year: World Inferno Friendship Society visited Regensburg and brought with them a birthday child - drummer Ben Kotch - HAPPY BIRTHDAY again!
They were only sextet yesterday, which is a pity (the big big BUT comes later on) as the brass section is simply so amazing [...]

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Yeah, it was a crazy year so far, I finished my final thesis in computer science/math, I wrote my final thesis in philosophy, made my final exams in philosophy, began to work at the faculty at the same time.
The last weeks were full of preparation for my written (Pyrrhonean Skepticism) and my oral exams (Mill’s [...]

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 Yesterday evening I gave a speech entitled “Proper Names: a Problem in the Philosophy of Language” for Gerusija in the student culture center “Bunker”.
I gave a short overview in excerpts of the question “How does language hook up to the world” with the stations:

sharing a form: Aristotle and Wittgenstein
Dialectical inspired conceptions of the relationship “signifier [...]

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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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