Omphalos Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis

see also Bertrand Russell's Five-Minute Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#Five-minute_hypothesis

scepticism notes

http://brian.weatherson.org/ScepticismNotes.pdf

Lists of Lists of Lists

hoo ha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

Haecceity & Quiddity

  

YEAH DUNS SCOTUS

YEAH THINGNESS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haecceity

Haecceity ( /hɛkˈsiːɪtɪ/; from the Latin haecceitas, which translates as "thisness") is a term from medieval philosophy first coined by Duns Scotus which denotes the discrete qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing. Haecceity is a person or object's "thisness".

Charles Sanders Peirce later used the term as a non-descriptive reference to an individual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiddity  

In scholastic philosophy, quiddity ( /ˈkwɪdɪti/;Latin quidditas) was another term for the essence of an object, literally its "whatness," or "what it is." The term derives from the Latin word "quidditas," which was used by the medieval scholastics as a literal translation of the equivalent term in Aristotle's Greek. 

rhetorical devices

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_rhetoric_terms

gotta know this shit. pictured is cicero. his name means "chickpea" in latin.

LITOTES: deliberate understatement

Early Modern Philosophy

Really easy-to understand versions of some difficult works, prepared by J Bennett, who went to Oxford and is from new zealand
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/index.html

this is awesome

The Sator Square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

The Sator Square is a word square containing a Latin palindrome featuring the words SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS written in a square so that they may be read top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, left-to-right, and right-to-left. The earliest known appearance of the square was found in the ruins of Pompeii which was buried in the ash of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. If the Sator Square is read boustrophedon, with a reverse in direction, then the words become SATOR OPERA TENET, with the sequence reversed.^[1] 

Philosophy by Another Name -- Colin Mcginn

By colin Mcginn, who went to oxford, worked with Fodor
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/philosophy-by-another-name/?hp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McGinn
Suggests that we change the name to "ontics"

i agree

"You may then be castigated for not being a “real philosopher,” by contrast with assorted gurus, preachers, homeopaths and twinkly barroom advice givers. Our subject then falls into disrepute and incomprehension." 

Hegel Dictionary

   [THE FIGURE DEPICTED ABOVE IS NOT HEGEL]

http://www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/students/philosophy/ba_course_materials/ba_19thc_hegel_glossary_01.pdf

Golems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem


"In some tales, (for example those of the Golem of Chelm and the Golem of Prague) a golem is inscribed with Hebrew words that keep it animated. The word emet (אמת, "truth" in the Hebrew language) written on a golem's forehead is one such example. The golem could then be deactivated by removing the aleph (א) in emet, thus changing the inscription from 'truth' to 'death' (met מת, "dead"). Legend and folklore suggest that golems could be activated by writing a specific series of letters on parchment and placing the paper in a golem's mouth"


potential for comparing to the significant roles that "truth" and "death" play in the Lordship and Bondage section of the Phenomenology, another narrative of servant / master relations gone wrong. 


maybe worth comparing to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

Partially Examined Life: Hegel

http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/04/02/episode-35-hegel-on-self-consciousness-2/
and
http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/04/10/episode-36-more-hegel-on-self-consciousness/

• hegel writes badly because he's trying to say something that has never been said before, which is a problem which all revolutionary philosophers have
• he is also referring to a lot of specific schools and philosophers but never by using any names, beginning with the theatetus
• Hegel sent a copy to Goethe and Goethe sent it back saying he couldn't make sense of it 
• you cannot specify goals / method in advance for philosophy if you do so you're already lost
• hence the necessity for "speculative" philosophy 
• immediacy of sense certain is reflected back in you, as when you say "now is night" 
• "here" which seems to be a particular is in fact a universal, same with "now"  
• Alexander Koveje is an important interpreter 

MIT Opencourseware Philosophy and Linguistics

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/

Kant / Rousseau Trivia

    

Kant's biographers tell a legend that Kant, who never interrupted his daily routine, gave up his daily walk in order to continue his study of Rousseau's Emile. The only picture in Kant's otherwise sparsely decorated home was a portrait of Rousseau that he hung over his writing desk.  Rousseau’s influence helped give rise to important Kantian themes such as the dignity of common humanity, the importance of autonomy, the centality of virtue, and the nature of proper theodicy.    

http://people.whitman.edu/~frierspr/kant_rousseau.htm

Suber -- internet philo resources

http://epistemelinks.com/ < -- also good i think

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

this is the same guy who came up with the noiseless principle and that weirdass card game MAO

Epiphenomenalism

Epiphenomenalism was mentioned by Thomas Henry Huxley as early as 1874.^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenon
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
An epiphenomenon (plural - epiphenomena) is a secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside or in parallel to a primary phenomenon.

Decent Summary of the Phenomenology

http://philosophy.eserver.org/hegel-summary.html

DEFINITION

1. 'Phenomenon' is a word which refers to appearances. It's a Greek word used by Plato to distinguish mere temporal appearances from the eternal Noumena of the Ideal Realm. The student of philosophy should recall Plato's parable of the shadows in the cave, where appearances were taken for realities. Phenomena are appearances. Where is the reality? In Hegel's view, probably unique in Western Philosophy, we can only know Reality when we have completely mastered the appearances, since the appearances (phenomena) partially hide and partially reveal Reality (noumena, Geist) in a peculiar manner.

2. There are degrees of reality within various phenomena. This is the origin of Hegel's idea that there can be degrees of truth in propositions. There are material phenomena and there are mental phenomena. Phenomena of mind also partially hide and partially reveal the truth. The study of phenomena is called, phenomenology, and Hegel focuses on mental phenomena, hence the title, PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND.

"Endnotes" David Foster Wallace & DFW Archive -- Geoff Ward, UT Austin

ARCHIVE
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2010/dfw/teaching/#syllabus
"If the offender is male, I am also apt to find him off-campus and beat him up"
DOCUMENTARY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIjS4K2mQKY

"When David Foster Wallace hanged himself in 2008, at the age of 46, he was considered by many to be the most gifted and linguistically exuberant American novelist and short story writer of his generation. His books include the 1,000-page Infinite Jest, a novel of grand ambition and stylistic experiment that came complete with 388 endnotes. (Footnotes, digressions, constant second guessing of every thought are features of Wallace's signature style).

Bernstein Tapes

http://www.bernsteintapes.com/ 

http://eha.no-ip.org/eHa/wiki/index.php?page=The+Bernstein+Tapes 

TRANSCRIPT AND AUDIO RECORDING

The Hellstrom Chronicle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle

The Hellstrom Chronicle is an American film released in 1971 which combines elements of documentary and science fiction to present a gripping depiction of the Darwinian struggle for survival between humans and insects. It was conceived and produced by David L. Wolper, directed by Walon Greenand written by David Seltzer, who earned a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for his screenplay.

criticism of israel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Israeli_government

One of the effects of international criticism has been the impact on social psychology of Israelis - according to a survey more than half of Israelis believe "the whole world is against us", and three quarters of Israelis believe "that no matter what Israel does or how far it goes towards resolving the conflict with the Palestinians, the world will continue to criticize Israel".^[13] A