Lipton on Inference to the Best Explanation

I have been having a quick look at (the late) Peter Lipton’s book Inference to the Best Explanation as preparation for revising a philosoph...

Further thoughts on the likeness argument

There’s been quite a bit of discussion of Neil Pickering’s critique of what he calls the ‘Likeness Argument’ amongst students planning essa...

So long ISCRI

Well that is just about it for the International School for Communities Rights and Inclusion, ISCRI. Last week I went to its wake: a pleasan...

Deriving a local urban social theory from Nietzsche

Yesterday, I listened to a talk by Grant Yocom of Oakland University called ‘The 'Last Man' in Detroit: Timely Revisions and New Ta...

Priest on the principle of non-contradiction

An interesting short summary of his thinking on this is here . (This post is simply so I can find the link again!)