Month: August 2013

  • Episode 50: Greg Salmieri discusses the Aristotelian good life and productive work

    This month it is our pleasure to discuss Aristotle’s ethics with Greg Salmieri, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University.  Click here to listen to our conversation. Aristotle was somewhat ambivalent about the activity of craftsmanship: i.e. the activity of making things like shoes, clothes, or pottery.  On the one hand, he…

  • Further reading on DRT

    For a well-written survey of discourse representation theory and its many applications, take a look at Beaver and Geurts’ Stanford Encyclopedia article: Bart Geurts and David Beaver, Discourse Representation Theory

  • An Essay by Hans Kamp

    Hans Kamp has generously provided his paper, ‘The Time Of My Life,’ for us to make available on the blog.  Give it a read and tell us what you think! Matt Teichman