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Zombies vs Shombies 2 comments

Richard Brown wrote 9 months ago: Richard Marshall, a writer for 3am Magazine, has been interviewing philosophers. After interviewing … more →

Tags: Consciousness, Applied Ethics, Metaethics, Is there a God?, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, holy crap, Truth, Neurophilosophy

Clip Show '011

Richard Brown wrote 1 year ago: It’s that time of year again! Here are the top posts of 2011 (see last year’s clip show  … more →

Tags: Consciousness, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Neurophilosophy, The a priori, Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, zombies, higher order thought

Creative NaBloPoMo

lafeuilledecabbage wrote 1 year ago: “Post something every day for a month. That’s all you have to do.” Rejoice readers … more →

Tags: Literature, Zoe Gilbert, Edgar Martins, NaBloPoMo, flash fiction, Blog, bejewelled hare, John Stark

Of bisons and riddles6 comments

Rali wrote 2 years ago: A book I own contains the following fully grammatical sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buff … more →

Tags: ambiguity tolerance, Approaches to Learning, Education, English grammar, Equivocation, Grammar, habits and learning, Humanities, interpretation

Can We Think About Non-Existent Objects?7 comments

Richard Brown wrote 2 years ago: I am scheduled to record a conversation with Pete Mandik for Philosophy TV tomorrow on higher-order … more →

Tags: Intentionality, philosophy of mind

Subjunctivitis: Interlude (Subjunctive of Nagging)2 comments

Rali wrote 2 years ago: “You were to finish this write-up last night – in fact, you should have finished it!”  An expression … more →

Tags: Approaches to Learning, Education, Grammar, habits and learning, Humanities, Hypocrisy, Language Study, Latin, Learning

A Difficult Sentence2 comments

sphendonetes wrote 2 years ago: Most of the different theories of language instruction floating around teach a second language in th … more →

Tags: Classics, Sight-Reading, English grammar, Language Study, Learning, translation woes, John Locke, decoding classics, difficult sentences

English speakers' plight

Rali wrote 2 years ago: Learning another language is tough, especially if you take into account the childhood trauma from ha … more →

Tags: Approaches to Learning, Classics, Conventions, Education, English grammar, Greek, habits and learning, Humanities, Latin

Mr. Potato Head5 comments

sphendonetes wrote 2 years ago: The other day I posted about the use of patterns in learning forms, and Rali correctly jumped on me. … more →

Tags: Classics, Education, Greek, Language Study, Learning, Memory, paradigms, teaching strategies

Random notes: how grammatical propensities shape our thoughts2 comments

Rali wrote 2 years ago: According to this article, the avoidance of passive voice in English profoundly affects the way Engl … more →

Tags: Equivocation, English grammar, ambiguity tolerance, Language Study, elves and fairies, Causality, agency, passive voice, responsibility

108th Philosophers' Carnival4 comments

Richard Brown wrote 3 years ago: Welcome to the 108th edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival! I don’t know what is going o … more →

Tags: Applied Ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, The a priori, Philosophy of Religion, Skepticism, Normative Ethics

3rd Birthday2 comments

Richard Brown wrote 3 years ago: Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of my starting Philosophy Sucks! I started my blogging career o … more →

Tags: Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Neurophilosophy, zombies, higher order thought, Identity Theory

Sellars on Mind and Language

Richard Brown wrote 3 years ago: I found this very interesting lecture by Sellars where he talks about dot quotes and its relation to … more →

Tags: Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic

Cognitive Phenomenology1 comment

Richard Brown wrote 3 years ago: (cross-posted at Brains) Via David Rosenthal- There was a conference entitled “Theory Of Consc … more →

Tags: Consciousness, Cognitive Phenomenology

Music & Language

Richard Brown wrote 3 years ago: Though I have never studied the philosophy of music I know that one of the central problems therein … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Language

The Terminator and Philosophy: Call for Abstracts2 comments

Richard Brown wrote 4 years ago: The Terminator and Philosophy Edited by Richard Brown and Kevin S. Decker The Blackwell Philosophy a … more →

Tags: Consciousness, Applied Ethics, Metaethics, Is there a God?, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic

Valid but not in Virtue of Form?1 comment

Richard Brown wrote 4 years ago: Some remarks of the Semantic Terrorist in the post on moral truthmakers got me to thinking. Here is … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic

Valid but not in Virtue of Form?1 comment

Richard Brown wrote 4 years ago: Some remarks of the Semantic Terrorist in the post on moral truthmakers got me to thinking. Here is … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic

Freedom of Speech Meets Speech Act Theory6 comments

Richard Brown wrote 4 years ago: In celebration of my one year in the blogosphere I have decided to start a new (randomly published) … more →

Tags: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Language


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