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> These are obviously two different things, but my sense is that part of the…paradigm shift that resulted in infinitely…
In memory of the inventor of this ingenious argument and its faithful reporter, both recently lost: “Is the ontological argument…
I did not know Timothy Smiley well, and his pioneering joint book on Plural Logics is sitting on my shelves…
Smiley cowrote the single best introduction to his field (formally and otherwise) I think will ever be written. I’m grateful…
Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…
This is exactly right. I’m a writer, and this is already accepted by the literary reading public: the human origin…
Dear Robert of Invisible America, Having read your outstandingly interesting comments here, I would now very much like to have…
She put Rahm Emmanuel in his place a couple of years ago, now she's going after our new Republican Governor (I hope she's wrong with the Scott Walker comparison, but since these people all confer with each other and none are capable of actual critical thought and decision-making, I fear she may be right).
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