Month: April 2016

  • Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity

    This month, we pull up our chairs and sit down once again with Robert May, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of California, Davis.  Click here to listen to our conversation. It seems sublime, unbelievable, groundbreaking — but maybe it actually doesn’t mean anything at all: e^(iπ) + 1 = 0 That’s Euler’s identity. Its…

  • Further reading on Peirce and categories

    For background on categories in general, Cathy Legg recommends the following: Amie Thomasson (2013). “Categories”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Paul Studtmann (2013). “Categories in Aristotle”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Barry Smith (2003). “Ontology”, in Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, (Oxford: Blackwell) Manley Thompson (1957). “On Category Differences”, Philosophical Review, 66(4): 486–508.…