Philosophy

We have a love hate relationship with philosophy and philosophers. On the one hand the subject area includes a lot of good thinking. On the other hand, if you are not careful you can get lost in thought and not get anything done. That said, this page collects links to resources that one or another of us have found useful for one project or another, but in no particular order. Almost all of these pointers have been suggested to us by friends, and we are grateful to them for this. If we don't acknowledge the source it's because we don't know if they will want to be considered responsible.


 * The problem of the many
 * Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
 * Semantic Conceptions of Information
 * Holes
 * Properties
 * Deontic logic
 * Species
 * Modal logic
 * Barry Smith's writings
 * Brian Cantwell Smith
 * Species concepts: the basis for controversy and reconciliation


 * Pat Hayes and Harry Halpin In defense of ambiguity (slides)