Reading for Feburary: Poll

Streetlight January 30, 2016 at 05:29 7775 views 11 comments

Welcome to the monthly reading poll, where we vote on what paper we'd like to discuss for the month of February. A nice mix of different subjects this month, and as per usual, last month's runner up is on the list as well.

Comments (11)

Pneumenon January 30, 2016 at 05:44 #8002 0 likes

Ooh! Ooh! The Haugueland paper looks extremely interesting! The relation between patterns and the things that realize those patterns is something I've been fascinated by since I began reading philosophy.

Ciceronianus January 30, 2016 at 16:30 #8011 0 likes

Can't let "being" be, it seems.

Deleteduserrc January 31, 2016 at 21:10 #8057 0 likes

Reply to Ciceronianus the White

If only someone nominated [I] Basically all of Philosophy is Silly But Here's Just a Few Brief Synopses of Philosophical Schools of Thought, Just The Bare Minimum Necessary To Allow The Reader To Speak Knowingly and Sardonically About Them & How To Pretend This is Pragmatism[/I] by Arnold Z. Heideggerwasanazi

Ciceronianus January 31, 2016 at 22:50 #8061 0 likes

Reply to csalisbury Ah, you wish to make me sad.

You want to know what is? Read The Light of the World.

Deleteduserrc February 01, 2016 at 14:42 #8077 0 likes

Reply to Ciceronianus the White

Just retaliatory measures. You make [i]me[/I] sad! I ? being and hate to see her scorned.

Ciceronianus February 01, 2016 at 15:55 #8079 0 likes

Hell hath no fury like a being-lover scorned? Well, "Let be be the finale of seem." We're in the kitchen with the concupiscent curds. Or Dinah; I'm not sure which. It's not so bad.

mcdoodle February 01, 2016 at 20:14 #8083 0 likes

Please, being-frank, please, I have been-adjacent-to to lecture 7 in a ready-at-hand series about being-with Heidegger today and I'm being'd out. I have fallen, I confess I am truly inauthentic and all I crave is my ownmost.

Ciceronianus February 01, 2016 at 22:17 #8090 0 likes

Reply to mcdoodle Sorry, but only a god (perhaps he caught himself before he said "Fuhrer") can save you.

shmik February 02, 2016 at 01:05 #8094 0 likes

We can't escape being. The entities that we are comport ourselves towards our being, in fact we deliver ourselves over to our own being. Our being what-we are, as far as we can speak of it at all must be conceived of in terms of our being.

I will name my first born Toby (pronounced to-be).

Streetlight February 02, 2016 at 07:19 #8098 0 likes

Last call for votes!

Pierre-Normand February 03, 2016 at 04:45 #8117 0 likes

Note to readers of Haugeland's Pattern and Being:

Haugeland discusses briefly Conway's Game of Life, which had been used by Dennett to illustrate patterns, their recognition, and ontological status. There is a nice wikipedia page on Conway's Game of Life, and one can easily find online simulators just in case some readers aren't familiar with it.