Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com congratulations. I have followed your blog for a long time and it is great to know that you are making progress.Philosophy is also one of the most importa…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com Did you see the interview with Graham Priest in 3:AM Magazine?http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/logically-speaking/ I think the Catholic position is that the…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com Thanks! I had no idea it'd be this cool. Now, the deep philosophical question is--where can one list such an outstanding achievement on one's cv? :-) I wa…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com I like the Yawgmoth story, and it seems to me to relate to a broader, real-world problem for the Korsgaardian account of identity: we do not have cognitiv…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com Baucus is the chair of the relevant committee for health care reform. If you care about the issue, you have to watch him closely, try to figure out what h…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com 6. We'll have party unity regardless. Over at Shakesville, PortlyDyke wants a unity ticket, regardless of who the nominee is, because a unified party is i…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com Let me second the kind words on Josh Dever. He's terribly smart and extremely helpful. Josh supervised my MA thesis before he went to UT and even though I…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com A passing observation on rule-talk and imperative-talk: One difference is that when we consider some intelligible form of words in the imperative mood (e.…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com The good side of hiatuses is that lazy readers like me can catch up with your posts! I'm jealous of your trip to Singapore (above all for the food!) and w…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com The more conventional opponents of intentionalism are formalists, who believe that the meaning of a text can be determined by the words of the text itself…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com "Open any well-researched book of mathematics or the sciences, and you'll find plenty of true statements right there in front of you."Neil,Prove to me tha…
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com If you're already tired of yourself, you better not come down here. It's nothing that a trip to Chapel Hill won't fix. Btw, you read the insanity going on…