In article Descriptivist theory of names, the following does not make complete sense; maybe something was lost in edit. Did you originally write this para? -- Philogo ( talk) 13:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
In general, descriptivist theories can be formalized very simply by letting p be a proper name, D be a description or family of descriptions associated with p by speakers and...D*...be a sentence that arises from...n...by replacing one or more occurrences of n with D*. If D is a single description, D*=D and if D is a family of descriptions D1...Dk, then D* is the complex description "the thing of which most, or a sufficient number, of the claims: it is D1...it is Dk are true."
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I see you got blocked the other day. See it as a duelling scar. Honour. edward (buckner) 11:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, it has no page numbers for books anyway and there are no idiotic, robotic templates at all. What a waste of time.
After all, it's pretty obvious that mass reliance upon habits, and upon myths over knowledge, is the culprit behind all kinds of unnecessary suffering that are totally oligarchical, bureaucratic, or generally systemic. (And concern for well being is, at some level, the origin of duty.)
b) takes effect when you get that some ways of interacting are viscerally moronic and antisocial; and so long as it is granted that everyone has a right to some ethical "wiggle room" to decide independently what's moral and what isn't, then the ethicist has every right to act and think and speak according to the simple facts about what they can live with and what they can't. One hopes that such persons are able to adapt to the social world to survive, but it takes constant effort, since the social world is full of intelligent people who are very cunning at excusing mediocrity and law-bound insanity. Humor and beer help with the latter. { Ben S. Nelson } 18:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Alan Richardson, who teaches at U. of British Columbia, gave a paper on the history of the phrase several years ago. He pointed out that in its current usage, it only became widespread in the late 1940s (with Feigl and Sellars' anthologies), and seems to have replaced phrases such as "scientific philosophy" and other code-words for logical positivism. 271828182 16:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
An interesting story for you. [1]. I'm afraid of what's going to happen on the Free will page as this gets read by the general public. But, more interestingly, what do you think of it? I vacillate between thinking this is the danger of scientists trying to do philosophy, and wondering if some such non-random, non-externally determined (but still neurobiologically determined) behavior might underlie our illusion of conscious will. BTW, PLoS One has open peer commentary, so you might be able to add your comments here (I don't know what the registraction policy is) [2] Edhubbard 05:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
With the obvious premise that, if I may be called an expert in any area of philosoph, free will is certainly not one of those areas. But there's seems to me to be the usual confusion and oversimplification right here: incompatibilism of freedom with fill-in-the-blank is just taken for granted in all these neuro-will discussions. Either indeterminism or determinism (or some combination of both--my own position) is true on this line, so freedom is impossible. But not for compatibilists of any of the millions of stripes, obviously. But, then, who cares about those navel-gazing idiots, say the neuros!! (0: Then he continues on in the same vein.
So, does this mean that there behavior is predestined to follow a certain mathematical pattern or what? If so, then it it may not be biologically determined, but it is determined nonetheless.
Bizarre. I don't think they have shown anything other than the fact that flies behavior is not completely random but follows surprising patterns (chaos theory seems like a reasonable explanation) under circumstances in which it was assumed that it would be (for some poorly explained reason).-- Francesco Franco 08:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Welcome back Francesco! I hope that your difficulties aren't directly related to being in the U.S., but I remember before that you had said that you felt much better when you aren't in the U.S. As for the experience that everything seems flat and so on, has anyone mentioned possible temporal lobe epilepsy? You know us neuros... My guess is that, even if the Docs can't track it down, there's something clearly going on in your brain. I assume that you've had an EEG to test for small seizures, which wouldn't lead you to have convulsions and all that, but which might lead to some pretty strange perceptual experiences. Other than that, something having to do with dissociation, but that gets to be pretty open ended and not very useful for helping you get at the root of what's bothering you.
Anyway, as for neuro books, I would recommend Ramachandran's book, which is a somewhat more interesting introduction to some of the neurological syndromes and so on, but which won't completely satisfy your craving for hard data. You could go to the other end of the scale, and look at The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd Ed edited by Michael Gazzaniga, but that's probably too far the other way. A middle ground might be to look at the Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind textbook by Gazzaniga, Ivry and Mangun, or to look at A Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience by Jamie Ward. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help, either with your perceptual experiences, or in terms of Cog. Neuro. reading. Best wishes,
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This is pure speculation, but: part of one's brain (presumably in the Occipital lobe, which handles visual information) examines the two-dimensional input from the eyes and outputs a 3D experience by way of "feature detectors". Some of these feature detectors only examine things that are immediately present before you. One might imagine that, if you (for whatever reason) had too many of this sort of feature detector active at one time, your brain would be trying to treat everything in its field of vision as if it were immediately present. One might imagine how this could sort of "overload" the brain, so to speak. If this were simply a genetic/biological anomaly, esp. at the neurological level, then it wouldn't seem to be surprising if nothing showed up on an MRI scan, which I presume were taken in order to find more obvious physical brain problems like scarring or tumors. (I don't know about EEGs.) That wouldn't explain how or why your problems seem to come and go, however. But if you're going into "research mode", those may be two avenues worth exploring first. { Ben S. Nelson } 21:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
When I get a chance, I'll ask Rama about this, and see if he has any ideas. I think he'll be gone to India for a while though, starting next week... and of course, none of this gets at why heat would influence, or other things like that.
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Needless to day, this sort of thing is not what I'm talking about here. It is just extraordinary and frightening the lengths people will go to deliberately alter (i.e. fuck up!"!) the states of their brains or consciousness, while I seek desperately to feel absolutely normal the way I did about 15 years ago. Nuts!!-- Francesco Franco 12:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Philosophy is as much about meta-level questions (ala the encyclopedic consensus) as it is about the best practice of every field (ala Blackburn). The common denominator to both traits is reason, of course, which surely applies to any number of practical efforts. So examples of the utility of philosophy should not be surprising.
A list of putative causes of empirical phenomena identified by philosophers would be too lengthy to list; some good, some bad. Chomskyian nativism comes to mind. Lockean empiricism (sp. the relationship b/w primary and secondary senses) is a causal account. Kantian "pure categories" are being taken seriously in contemporary literature on cognitive science: see for example, Croft and Cruse's gloss in Cognitive Linguistics, re: schematics in semantics. The negative contributions, i.e., as skeptics, has not simply floated at the level of the abstract. Berkeley's examination of optical phenomena (in his critique of "geometric" accounts) successfully pointed out some significant errors in the accounts of the time; these accounts relied upon the ancient principle, which simply failed to make any sense of concave mirrors. (Berkeley's reductio is actually pretty well-regarded, last I heard.) The Molyneux Man thought-experiment is commonly associated with Locke; what's glossed over is that it was conceived by Locke's friend, a doctor. (And of course, Locke himself was a doctor as well.) Lucretius was an atomist millenia before we could have any solid evidence to hold the belief. If Freud was anything more than just a demented kook, he was a philosopher. That's keeping at bay the contributions to, say, mathematics and logic; Leibniz and Descartes come to mind, and others which I'm sure don't need mention.
There's a word to describe those philosophers who constrain their efforts to idle skepticism and meta-level questions: boring. But not all of them are that way. And I'm just wary of those who claim to be scientists and also claim they are not engaging in interpretations. They are constrained interpretations, sure, but it is often easy to make prudent scientific judgment to be something more (or less) than that. The uses of analytic philosophy in the scientific enterprise seem fairly plain.
Of course I doubt I can help much with the present dilemmas you have, I can just throw in a few mildly-informed speculations in the hopes that it may help as a starting point for your future researches. I should mention (as you likely know) that the Occipital lobe is directly above the cerebellum. The former is basically in charge of visual activity, and the latter deals in the sense of balance. If something is happening, it would seem reasonable to suppose that it is in that region. Can you compare your dizziness/vomiting to the feeling of drunkenness? From what I understand, the dehydration caused by alcohol intake is what causes the problems in most hangovers. I'm just thinking about your comments re: the heat and humidity. If the cause is dehydration, then perhaps you might think of staying indoors / cool, try not to get dehydrated. (Do you drink a lot of water? I wonder whether that would help or hurt.) But for all I know, since you mentioned humidity, you may be overhydrated. Oh well, as least those are variables to be considered.
(Also I should say that I'm pleased that my previous deductions were supported by Dr. Hubbard above re: the limits of the FMRI!) Sorry about the choice of words, re: "disoriented".
BTW, if you run into the CEO of Luxottica, tell him to give me a raise { Ben S. Nelson } 23:05, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
explanation of a causal phenomenea once every two hundred years or so!! But how much do the occasional, extraordinary exceptions represent out of the immeasurably immense amount of philosophical theorizing that has gone on, and continues to go on, in the world? Maybe 0.000000000001% or thereabouts? Do you, for example, think the free will problem(s) will ever be resolved by arm-chair thinking? Is it even possible, in priniciple, for human baings to know the answer to such questions? How about the mind-body problem? The existence or non.exitence and the nature of qualia? Which (philosophy) books or articles should I read to get some idea about the TRUTH on these matters? I have spent a great deal of time recently reading through the 50 or articles that are posted on OPP every other day or so? What I find is an enormous amount of very well-written, well-argued, well-thought-out essays which either a) have absolutely no relevance, and will never have any relevence, to any serious problem on earth: actualism vs. possibilism? four-dimensionalism vs. temporal stages? what is the nature of a proposition? In light of the pessimistic meta-induction with respect to science, meta-philosophical skepticism or pessimism seems to to almost irresistible.
I didn't set out to seek to redeem philosophy in its entirety. Many philosophical projects seem to me utterly irrelevant, given my biography and the bundle of interpretations that have accrued in my head. I just meant to answer your challenge: "When has any philosophy/philosopher ever identified the cause of anything, much less an empirical phenomenon?"
I don't really see any free will problem. Much of the debates continue due to a lack of common discussion over the meaning of the terms used -- the conditions under which free will would exist. It seems to me that the following compatibilist account of free will is acceptable: "we have free will if our volitions are governed by our conscious mind in some non-trivial way". I.e., if our conscious mind is able to veto action on inappropriate desires. The question then becomes, does a thought by itself have any force upon our behaviors (ala Kant), or does it require its own desires in order to be significant (ala Hume)? And that's an empirical question. Of course a person can challenge the original compatibilist formulation, and perhaps even do so convincingly. But at the present moment I think the challenges are just idle spinning of wheels.
Anyway, even if the topics you mention are seemingly useless, that doesn't make them irrelevant. Relevance depends on the intellectual projects that one has, for whatever reason, invested their mental energy into. Usually because the solutions provide some order, meaning, and stability to one's life. It's not that philosophy necessarily solves problems, it's just that it's necessary for the solving of (most) problems. And in terms of solutions, there are plenty, and provided by philosophers; there just may not be a consensus on what solution is correct. But consensus is a crutch anyway.
Seriously, though, does drinking water help in any way? { Ben S. Nelson } 14:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
No, I think I am allergic to water. That is, unless it is made up of XYZ. -- Francesco Franco 16:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
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I don't think it would be too much work to get it back to FA standard, if indeed others agree it has fallen below it. It's just the lead (needs expansion - not too hard) and the balance for the theology/religion part. Richard001 ( talk) 07:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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Right now I'm in my first year of my doctorate. I'm conducting a research area in philosophy of social science, which I've been wanting to do for years and years. I'll be presenting at an international conference in July which presents some arguments I've developed along those lines. Also in my spare time I'm working on a project of measuring the research productivity of Canadian philosophy scholars. What about you, still working on music? { Ben S. Nelson } 04:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
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In article Descriptivist theory of names, the following does not make complete sense; maybe something was lost in edit. Did you originally write this para? -- Philogo ( talk) 13:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
In general, descriptivist theories can be formalized very simply by letting p be a proper name, D be a description or family of descriptions associated with p by speakers and...D*...be a sentence that arises from...n...by replacing one or more occurrences of n with D*. If D is a single description, D*=D and if D is a family of descriptions D1...Dk, then D* is the complex description "the thing of which most, or a sufficient number, of the claims: it is D1...it is Dk are true."
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I see you got blocked the other day. See it as a duelling scar. Honour. edward (buckner) 11:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, it has no page numbers for books anyway and there are no idiotic, robotic templates at all. What a waste of time.
After all, it's pretty obvious that mass reliance upon habits, and upon myths over knowledge, is the culprit behind all kinds of unnecessary suffering that are totally oligarchical, bureaucratic, or generally systemic. (And concern for well being is, at some level, the origin of duty.)
b) takes effect when you get that some ways of interacting are viscerally moronic and antisocial; and so long as it is granted that everyone has a right to some ethical "wiggle room" to decide independently what's moral and what isn't, then the ethicist has every right to act and think and speak according to the simple facts about what they can live with and what they can't. One hopes that such persons are able to adapt to the social world to survive, but it takes constant effort, since the social world is full of intelligent people who are very cunning at excusing mediocrity and law-bound insanity. Humor and beer help with the latter. { Ben S. Nelson } 18:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Alan Richardson, who teaches at U. of British Columbia, gave a paper on the history of the phrase several years ago. He pointed out that in its current usage, it only became widespread in the late 1940s (with Feigl and Sellars' anthologies), and seems to have replaced phrases such as "scientific philosophy" and other code-words for logical positivism. 271828182 16:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
An interesting story for you. [1]. I'm afraid of what's going to happen on the Free will page as this gets read by the general public. But, more interestingly, what do you think of it? I vacillate between thinking this is the danger of scientists trying to do philosophy, and wondering if some such non-random, non-externally determined (but still neurobiologically determined) behavior might underlie our illusion of conscious will. BTW, PLoS One has open peer commentary, so you might be able to add your comments here (I don't know what the registraction policy is) [2] Edhubbard 05:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
With the obvious premise that, if I may be called an expert in any area of philosoph, free will is certainly not one of those areas. But there's seems to me to be the usual confusion and oversimplification right here: incompatibilism of freedom with fill-in-the-blank is just taken for granted in all these neuro-will discussions. Either indeterminism or determinism (or some combination of both--my own position) is true on this line, so freedom is impossible. But not for compatibilists of any of the millions of stripes, obviously. But, then, who cares about those navel-gazing idiots, say the neuros!! (0: Then he continues on in the same vein.
So, does this mean that there behavior is predestined to follow a certain mathematical pattern or what? If so, then it it may not be biologically determined, but it is determined nonetheless.
Bizarre. I don't think they have shown anything other than the fact that flies behavior is not completely random but follows surprising patterns (chaos theory seems like a reasonable explanation) under circumstances in which it was assumed that it would be (for some poorly explained reason).-- Francesco Franco 08:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Welcome back Francesco! I hope that your difficulties aren't directly related to being in the U.S., but I remember before that you had said that you felt much better when you aren't in the U.S. As for the experience that everything seems flat and so on, has anyone mentioned possible temporal lobe epilepsy? You know us neuros... My guess is that, even if the Docs can't track it down, there's something clearly going on in your brain. I assume that you've had an EEG to test for small seizures, which wouldn't lead you to have convulsions and all that, but which might lead to some pretty strange perceptual experiences. Other than that, something having to do with dissociation, but that gets to be pretty open ended and not very useful for helping you get at the root of what's bothering you.
Anyway, as for neuro books, I would recommend Ramachandran's book, which is a somewhat more interesting introduction to some of the neurological syndromes and so on, but which won't completely satisfy your craving for hard data. You could go to the other end of the scale, and look at The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd Ed edited by Michael Gazzaniga, but that's probably too far the other way. A middle ground might be to look at the Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind textbook by Gazzaniga, Ivry and Mangun, or to look at A Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience by Jamie Ward. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help, either with your perceptual experiences, or in terms of Cog. Neuro. reading. Best wishes,
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This is pure speculation, but: part of one's brain (presumably in the Occipital lobe, which handles visual information) examines the two-dimensional input from the eyes and outputs a 3D experience by way of "feature detectors". Some of these feature detectors only examine things that are immediately present before you. One might imagine that, if you (for whatever reason) had too many of this sort of feature detector active at one time, your brain would be trying to treat everything in its field of vision as if it were immediately present. One might imagine how this could sort of "overload" the brain, so to speak. If this were simply a genetic/biological anomaly, esp. at the neurological level, then it wouldn't seem to be surprising if nothing showed up on an MRI scan, which I presume were taken in order to find more obvious physical brain problems like scarring or tumors. (I don't know about EEGs.) That wouldn't explain how or why your problems seem to come and go, however. But if you're going into "research mode", those may be two avenues worth exploring first. { Ben S. Nelson } 21:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
When I get a chance, I'll ask Rama about this, and see if he has any ideas. I think he'll be gone to India for a while though, starting next week... and of course, none of this gets at why heat would influence, or other things like that.
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Needless to day, this sort of thing is not what I'm talking about here. It is just extraordinary and frightening the lengths people will go to deliberately alter (i.e. fuck up!"!) the states of their brains or consciousness, while I seek desperately to feel absolutely normal the way I did about 15 years ago. Nuts!!-- Francesco Franco 12:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Philosophy is as much about meta-level questions (ala the encyclopedic consensus) as it is about the best practice of every field (ala Blackburn). The common denominator to both traits is reason, of course, which surely applies to any number of practical efforts. So examples of the utility of philosophy should not be surprising.
A list of putative causes of empirical phenomena identified by philosophers would be too lengthy to list; some good, some bad. Chomskyian nativism comes to mind. Lockean empiricism (sp. the relationship b/w primary and secondary senses) is a causal account. Kantian "pure categories" are being taken seriously in contemporary literature on cognitive science: see for example, Croft and Cruse's gloss in Cognitive Linguistics, re: schematics in semantics. The negative contributions, i.e., as skeptics, has not simply floated at the level of the abstract. Berkeley's examination of optical phenomena (in his critique of "geometric" accounts) successfully pointed out some significant errors in the accounts of the time; these accounts relied upon the ancient principle, which simply failed to make any sense of concave mirrors. (Berkeley's reductio is actually pretty well-regarded, last I heard.) The Molyneux Man thought-experiment is commonly associated with Locke; what's glossed over is that it was conceived by Locke's friend, a doctor. (And of course, Locke himself was a doctor as well.) Lucretius was an atomist millenia before we could have any solid evidence to hold the belief. If Freud was anything more than just a demented kook, he was a philosopher. That's keeping at bay the contributions to, say, mathematics and logic; Leibniz and Descartes come to mind, and others which I'm sure don't need mention.
There's a word to describe those philosophers who constrain their efforts to idle skepticism and meta-level questions: boring. But not all of them are that way. And I'm just wary of those who claim to be scientists and also claim they are not engaging in interpretations. They are constrained interpretations, sure, but it is often easy to make prudent scientific judgment to be something more (or less) than that. The uses of analytic philosophy in the scientific enterprise seem fairly plain.
Of course I doubt I can help much with the present dilemmas you have, I can just throw in a few mildly-informed speculations in the hopes that it may help as a starting point for your future researches. I should mention (as you likely know) that the Occipital lobe is directly above the cerebellum. The former is basically in charge of visual activity, and the latter deals in the sense of balance. If something is happening, it would seem reasonable to suppose that it is in that region. Can you compare your dizziness/vomiting to the feeling of drunkenness? From what I understand, the dehydration caused by alcohol intake is what causes the problems in most hangovers. I'm just thinking about your comments re: the heat and humidity. If the cause is dehydration, then perhaps you might think of staying indoors / cool, try not to get dehydrated. (Do you drink a lot of water? I wonder whether that would help or hurt.) But for all I know, since you mentioned humidity, you may be overhydrated. Oh well, as least those are variables to be considered.
(Also I should say that I'm pleased that my previous deductions were supported by Dr. Hubbard above re: the limits of the FMRI!) Sorry about the choice of words, re: "disoriented".
BTW, if you run into the CEO of Luxottica, tell him to give me a raise { Ben S. Nelson } 23:05, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
explanation of a causal phenomenea once every two hundred years or so!! But how much do the occasional, extraordinary exceptions represent out of the immeasurably immense amount of philosophical theorizing that has gone on, and continues to go on, in the world? Maybe 0.000000000001% or thereabouts? Do you, for example, think the free will problem(s) will ever be resolved by arm-chair thinking? Is it even possible, in priniciple, for human baings to know the answer to such questions? How about the mind-body problem? The existence or non.exitence and the nature of qualia? Which (philosophy) books or articles should I read to get some idea about the TRUTH on these matters? I have spent a great deal of time recently reading through the 50 or articles that are posted on OPP every other day or so? What I find is an enormous amount of very well-written, well-argued, well-thought-out essays which either a) have absolutely no relevance, and will never have any relevence, to any serious problem on earth: actualism vs. possibilism? four-dimensionalism vs. temporal stages? what is the nature of a proposition? In light of the pessimistic meta-induction with respect to science, meta-philosophical skepticism or pessimism seems to to almost irresistible.
I didn't set out to seek to redeem philosophy in its entirety. Many philosophical projects seem to me utterly irrelevant, given my biography and the bundle of interpretations that have accrued in my head. I just meant to answer your challenge: "When has any philosophy/philosopher ever identified the cause of anything, much less an empirical phenomenon?"
I don't really see any free will problem. Much of the debates continue due to a lack of common discussion over the meaning of the terms used -- the conditions under which free will would exist. It seems to me that the following compatibilist account of free will is acceptable: "we have free will if our volitions are governed by our conscious mind in some non-trivial way". I.e., if our conscious mind is able to veto action on inappropriate desires. The question then becomes, does a thought by itself have any force upon our behaviors (ala Kant), or does it require its own desires in order to be significant (ala Hume)? And that's an empirical question. Of course a person can challenge the original compatibilist formulation, and perhaps even do so convincingly. But at the present moment I think the challenges are just idle spinning of wheels.
Anyway, even if the topics you mention are seemingly useless, that doesn't make them irrelevant. Relevance depends on the intellectual projects that one has, for whatever reason, invested their mental energy into. Usually because the solutions provide some order, meaning, and stability to one's life. It's not that philosophy necessarily solves problems, it's just that it's necessary for the solving of (most) problems. And in terms of solutions, there are plenty, and provided by philosophers; there just may not be a consensus on what solution is correct. But consensus is a crutch anyway.
Seriously, though, does drinking water help in any way? { Ben S. Nelson } 14:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
No, I think I am allergic to water. That is, unless it is made up of XYZ. -- Francesco Franco 16:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
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I don't think it would be too much work to get it back to FA standard, if indeed others agree it has fallen below it. It's just the lead (needs expansion - not too hard) and the balance for the theology/religion part. Richard001 ( talk) 07:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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I've read some of your contributions, specially in philosophy, I come from catalan wiki and I can just say: Congratulations!! Great work! (Barcelona there) -- 217.125.239.224 ( talk) 18:47, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
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Right now I'm in my first year of my doctorate. I'm conducting a research area in philosophy of social science, which I've been wanting to do for years and years. I'll be presenting at an international conference in July which presents some arguments I've developed along those lines. Also in my spare time I'm working on a project of measuring the research productivity of Canadian philosophy scholars. What about you, still working on music? { Ben S. Nelson } 04:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
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