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A Group Theory of Group Theory: Collaborative Mathematics and the ‘Uninvention’ of a 1000-page Proof

Posted on June 17, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…completed in 1981, ranged between 300 and 500 articles and ran somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 journal pages. Mathematicians have hailed the project as one of the greatest mathematical achievements…

Tagged Classification Theorem, expertise, mathematical community, reliability, uninventionLeave a comment

Democratizing Citizenship: Some Advantages of a Basic Income

Posted on November 21, 2023May 13, 2025 by Deryn Mair Thomas

…democratic right, and the importance of the opportunity not to be employed shows how a basic income can help break both the link between income and employment and the mutual…

Tagged basic income, free-riding, freedom, stakeholding, womenLeave a comment

The Logic Book

Posted on March 18, 2019June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Summary: This book is an introductory textbook on mathematical logic. It covers Propositional Logic and Predicate Logic. For each of these formalisms it presents its syntax and formal semantics as well…

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Indicative Conditionals

Posted on March 12, 2023May 13, 2025 by Franci Mangraviti

The chapter is an introduction to logical treatments of indicative conditionals, comparing truth-functional, non-truth-functional, and suppositional approaches. Some of the topics discussed are truth conditions, conditional belief, assertability, and issues…

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Elite Capture

Posted on January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 by Olivia Maegaard Nielsen

…rejecting elitist identity politics in favour of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organising across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world….

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The Status of Consciousness in Nature

Posted on May 26, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The most central metaphysical question about phenomenal consciousness is that of what constitutes phenomenal consciousness, whereas the most central epistemic question about consciousness is that of whether science can…

Tagged consciousness, explanatory gap, philosophy of mind, physicalismLeave a comment

Biological Parenthood: Gestational, Not Genetic

Posted on November 20, 2023May 13, 2025 by Deryn Mair Thomas

…distinguish between two kinds of biological connections between parents and children: the genetic link and the gestational link. I argue that the second can better justify a right to rear….

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Types and Tokens: On Abstract Objects

Posted on May 19, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…both types and tokens – for example, there is only one word type ‘the’ but there are numerous tokens of it on this page – as do symphonies, bears, chess…

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Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy

Posted on March 18, 2019May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her work as roughly…

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Western Inscription

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Zhang Zai’s Western Inscription articulates a metaphysical vision of universal kinship and moral obligation grounded in the shared substance of all beings. It became a foundational text in Neo-Confucianism, emphasizing…

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