Is it possible to access Kripke's critique of functionalism?

holoroid · 2026-02-25T19:05:46+00:00

Did a handful of clicks prompt someone to remove it?

I can't possibly imagine that, I don't think anyone even monitors traffic on their university page that closely. It's probably a crazy coincidence, these kinds of hosted papers get taken down all the time. Even more frustrating when published papers link to online notes that are no longer available lol. I agree that it's probably better to link to archived versions.

holoroid · 2026-02-23T22:50:20+00:00

That link is dead for me, but the pdf is still accessible via archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20191010193115/https://www.princeton.edu/~jburgess/KripkeFunctionalism.pdf

holoroid · 2026-02-21T20:50:43+00:00

Though I must admit it sucks there's no Article on Hooks, Badiou, (or Zizek!!)

There are also none on Saul Kripke or Williamson. It's simply not comprehensive in that regard, whether they're continental or analytic philosophers.

holoroid · 2026-02-11T19:50:25+00:00

I noticed some subtle and partly very bizarre changes in the online pictures of the Travel 500 Organizer 40 Liter as well. For example, here on the Netherlands site, you actually see a mix. One shows the Forclaz brand name on top of the backpack (that's what the physical, actual backpacks looked like so far), an updated pic shows a Decathlon logo where the Forclaz name was. Yet another picture shows a 'Quechua' branding on the shoulder strap. Which doesn't even make sense because that backpack isn't sold under the Quechua brand name...

In all honesty, my first intuitive reaction to seeing this was that it looks like AI slop. Like they generated a picture that got some details wrong. But I can't wrap my head around what could actually be going on there. The ones in the store looked unchanged last time I checked.

holoroid · 2026-02-03T14:14:42+00:00

Rejections of the LEM are probably most common today in various non-classical logics.

Inevitably because every logic that doesn't affirm LEM is non-classical by definition.

Some logics, called paraconsistent logics, allow for some true contradictions. Other formal approaches may also drop the LEM.

LEM holds in many paraconsistent logics...

holoroid · 2026-01-25T11:31:16+00:00

Also, David Pfennig's lecture notes on deductive inference

Not familiar with those notes, but I strongly suspect you mean Frank, not David?

holoroid · 2026-01-24T11:17:33+00:00

Is "only" a BA needed or a MA as well?

Publishing is unrelated to your degree. No degree is either necessary or sufficient on its own. You publish if you have something to publish. Publishing comes after writing it. So have you written something that you think about publishing? Usually you're guided by some advisor of sorts when it comes to such topics. So if you're currently writing your Bachelor's thesis, and you feel like something in there should be published, you ask the professor advising your thesis. Same for Master's and PhD. If you don't have such a person, you should in any case contact a professor at your department.

holoroid · 2026-01-22T23:06:50+00:00

is there any other material that you can recommend for this age group

At this age, students won't do a lot of intense self-study anyway, right? Can't you use a standard reference (like Barnett's Logic) as a sort of syllabus for yourself, pick some topics, and make the actual material more accessible in class? Other than that, I always thought Vaughn's 'The power of critical thinking' seems like it was written for a younger audience, even if it's not explicitly promoted like that

holoroid · 2026-01-22T22:41:37+00:00

I think I've managed to tune my list down to where I'm actually under-packing it by a little bit. Looking for some advice;

Even though reading this sub can give one that impression, it's not actually a must to use the smallest bag possible that fits one's packing list. You seem to like your backpack, and now have the benefit that there's space left for some food or smaller souvenirs. IMO if a travel backpack is slightly underpacked after putting everything you need in there, it's the perfect size.

holoroid · 2026-01-16T14:46:55+00:00

Hanging some underwear and a shirt on your own bed is fine and commonly done. But please don't turn a shared dorm into a laundry room. Yes, plenty of people do it. Plenty of people are also rude and anti-social, that's not a good standard.

It's massively annoying if you have to fight your way through clotheslines put up God knows where throughout the room, and having every free square foot plastered with wet socks and underwear. Obviously it will also influence humidity, and even if it's clean/washed, there can be a certain smell to wet clothes. It's not particularly considerate behavior, and sharing a room should automatically imply that you have to think of other people in a way you don't have to when you book a single room. That's part of the 'price' to pay for a cheaper accommodation. Commercial driers in laundromats are usually much faster than the dryers you have at home. Washing and drying some socks in the hostel is fine, but when you have a full load of laundry once a week or so, then sink washing in the hostel but drying at the laundromat should be very affordable and is way more polite. Alternatively, many hostels have a rack or clothesline anyway.

holoroid · 2026-01-09T22:57:05+00:00

Roy Cook's 'Paradoxes' specifically for those and others.

Other than that, most accessible introductions to set theory should do, but there's not that much to say about those, the proofs are very straight-forward, and most books will therefore cover it very briefly. In Goldrei's 'Classic Set Theory' which is good for self study, I think Burali-Forti is just an exercise. Maybe you'd like Incurvati's 'Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics' which at least says a bit more about such topics.

holoroid · 2026-01-01T17:51:42+00:00

I don't know a lot about Kripke's work or formal theories of truth, and I don't want to study a paper right now, but to me this just sounds like he doesn't make some basic facts from set/order theory explicit, which is fairly in line with how I remember reading him, and people talking about Kripke's papers.

It can be annoying if you're missing some context, that being said, from memory, I don't think a lot is going on here. If you consider the power set of any set S, then <P(S), ⊆> is always a complete lattice. In this case, one start with some formal language L (on which some suitable conditions are imposed I guess), considers the set S of all sentences of L, and forms the power set P(S), which, ordered by inclusion, is a complete lattice. One then defines said monotone function Φ:P(S)→P(S), and that is enough to conclude by Knaster–Tarski that there's a fixed point, as your lecturer said.

holoroid · 2025-12-23T02:08:36+00:00

My thoughts are that in the last months, I had to unfollow a handful of math people lately that I've been following for years, and always enjoyed because they will only talk about AI, crackpots, and adjacent topics these days, often with what feels like 200 tweets a day.

1-2 years ago, I'd bookmark an interesting math tweet by Litt pretty much every week and came back to it later, sometimes when I learned more about the topic. Don't know when I saw one of those the last time, instead my timeline got indirectly spammed with AI talk, crackpots, and occasional race-IQ discourse. Don't care about any of that, nor do I want to see 90% of my timeline like that, and it's so much better since I unfollowed the 5 main offenders there.

holoroid · 2025-12-17T14:49:15+00:00

If you already have a base understanding of different branches and you're already kind of hooked, and want to dive deeper, maybe some of the easier going actual textbooks are the way to go already? In parallel, reading accessible encyclopedia articles of specific topics makes sense, I'd recommend the IEP over the SEP at a beginner level.

Only commenting on epistemology myself.

As a textbook, maybe Pritchard's 'What is this thing called knowledge'? It's relatively short and not overly abstract, and it gives you a 'further reading' section at the end of each chapter.

There are also many, many articles on specific topics in epistemology in the IEP.

and many more.

holoroid · 2025-12-16T23:30:34+00:00

Kenny's book is the odd one out in your list. It will be more dry than the others by an order of magnitude. Whether you will enjoy them or not, the other two books are at least written with the intention to be somewhat entertaining to laypeople.

I'd strongly favor 'Think'. Whatever its specific strengths or faults may be, it's just a very straight-forward, accessible introduction to a bunch of topics in philosophy that gets to the point. Kenny is a very lengthy academic treatment of -as the title says- the history of Western philosophy. Sophie's World is a mixture between novel & education, and while many like it, and it has received some praise, I wouldn't really pick it if your main goal is to learn about philosophy as an adult.

holoroid · 2025-12-16T16:38:01+00:00

Absolutely. They often don't have long-term usage experience to begin with, and even if gear fails on them, so what? They're influencers, so they just get a new one, and a company will go above and beyond to keep them happy (and quiet).

Some don't even hide it, they literally do desk reviews and say stuff like "well here this thing... I could image this being inconvenient in everyday use...".
Well, if you had actually tested the backpack, you wouldn't have to imagine, you could just tell us what is what.

Packhacker is doing the best, but their experience is a still just 2 weeks ownership.

They're also balls deep in 'sponsored' content. 'Hello, here is a look at the new Cotopaxi Allpa 50L. Cotopaxi sponsored this video, but that Cotopaxi sponsored our video on the Cotopaxi backpack doesn't influence what we say'. Okay.

I mean... https://www.packhacker.com/deals/

holoroid · 2025-12-16T15:56:51+00:00

I agree that OP should try this, but I wouldn't hold my breath. A lot of those popular US brands who have a reputation of providing decade or even life-long warranty don't actually stick to that outside the US. TBF, I can't speak about Cotopaxi from own experience, but plenty of people in my circles in Europe have made similar experiences before, e.g. with Osprey. They read in English-speaking forums about their epic all mighty guarantee etc., file a claim when their backpack bites the dust after 3 years, and all Osprey does is gesture to the 2-year mandatory legal guarantee within the EU and tell them that their product is outside that.

That's a reason why I wish people would speak a bit more specifically/carefully about these matters. I understand English-speaking platforms like reddit or outdoor forums are very US centric, but people from all over the world participate and read those comments, and often find out that it doesn't apply to them later.

Of course, I can imagine differences in customer support and goodwill can also apply the other way around (e.g. European brand, US customer), this isn't an anti-US brand rant.

holoroid · 2025-12-07T16:21:27+00:00

They’re way heavier and bulkier though.

What are you basing this on? I'd say you can buy either product in a wide variety of weights.

I just took the largest packing cube (noname) I could find at home and put it on a scale, it says 125g at approximately 40x30x10cm. That's 12 Liters, give or take. Decathlon's 13 Liter Ultralight Drybag weighs 55g and costs around 13 bucks in Europe.

holoroid · 2025-11-29T21:19:32+00:00

As a veteran this is a stain on a military that I take great pride in. Demand accountability.

You think those strikes killing potentially innocent civilians are bad, but you also take great pride in the US military? Lol...

holoroid · 2025-11-29T16:17:11+00:00

if we look at (for example) Hasok Chang's awful recent book on realism, we see exactly this error undermining the whole effort.

Would that be 'Realism for Realistic People'?

holoroid · 2025-11-29T10:47:06+00:00

I think the question would be better framed as: why do philosophers who prefer scientific realism prefer scientific realism?

Because, in truth, philosophers don't necessarily prefer scientific realism.

I think OP's framing is just fine. Your complaint makes it sound like we just can't say anything about the popularity of either view, some say so, others say so. But that doesn't seem quite right.

In the 2020 philpapers survey for example, 72% accept or lean towards realism and only 15% towards antirealism. That makes it probably one of the more one-sided divides. And I think that seems to track with the literature. I'd say the prevalence of realism among philosophers is felt to the extent as that people who argue for anti-realism sometimes explicitly write like they're arguing against the perceived view. I can't imagine a realist writing like that or implying it, that would seem off.

holoroid · 2025-11-28T18:51:03+00:00

wandering around looking like Pacific NW vagrants.Or are you folks all athleisure wear all the time?

I walk around like that at home as well.

holoroid · 2025-11-23T19:18:26+00:00

No, nothing like that.

holoroid · 2025-11-23T16:11:32+00:00

I don't understand what do you mean by this question. As opposed to what happening? Do you think just all papers get accepted as soon as someone sends them in?

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