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My North American tour is just about over, and it’s gone better than I could have hoped, with excellent discussions with colleagues at Chapman, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Calgary, and really helpful questions and feedback at each of my talks.
My last talk of this trip will be this afternoon, at the CUNY Graduate Center, for the Logic and Metaphysics Workshop.
consequently.orgModal Logic and Contingent Existence — consequently.org
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Celebrating the Centenary of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS
From 2020: a conversation between Lindsay specialist Douglas A. Anderson, Prof Robert A. Davisl, & author Nina Allan, discussing the novel & its influence on fantasy writers – hosted by the Unversity of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic
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“this is a book that counts Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, & Jeff Vandermeer among its admirers … Once you read ARCTURUS, you’re always finding chunks of it here & there, like burning fragments of an exploded spaceship smoldering in a field”
—Dan Schwartz on David Lindsay’s cult status
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We Are the Mutants · “One Long Discomfort”: The Legacy and Future of David Lindsay’s ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the title and author’s name debossed into the front...
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“The current strength of Scottish weird fiction has its roots in Lindsay’s surreal & stricken work … Lindsay ought to be considered alongside writers like Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson & HP Lovecraft as one of the great proponents of cosmic horror.”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/many-worlds-david-lindsay-and-alternative-realities/
The Bottle Imp · Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realities - The Bottle ImpAlthough his two greatest works, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) and The Haunted Woman (1922) were re-issued as Canongate Classics in the 1980s, the work of David Lindsay has never achieved either the critical or popular acclaim he deserves. Born in 1876 in Lewisham, his parents came from Jedburgh and he spent much of his childhood there. His life […]
“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.”
—Philip Pullman
David Lindsay (1876–1945) was born #OTD, 3 March – author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS & other weird works
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**The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell**
_"In this work, Russell explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, interrogating what we can genuinely know about the world around us."_
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Next week, I’m heading off to North America for a few talks. (I’d committed to these talks before last year’s election and I have mixed feelings about the trip, but I’m going, nonetheless.)
If you're in the LA area, in or around Calgary, or New York, and you’re into philosophical logic, why not drop by? Details of the talks are here https://consequently.org/presentation/
consequently.orgPresentations — consequently.org
Coming up soon! (as in today!!!!)
Book Launch for Solving Name: Worldliness and #Metaphysics in #Librarianship
Registration: https://libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xKs0k13sQw6x0sUfhoSdYA
“Solving Names” for American pragmatist #philosopher William James meant that no further debate or enquiry was needed. In #Librarianship this means the construction, maintenance, and reproduction of #racial, #settler- #colonial, #patriarchal #capitalism.
Reading Victor Lowe "Understanding Whitehead" on "organism" some pieces fall into place.
Since we're humans, not machines, thinking about the foundation of epistemology may take von Uexküll's umwelt-innenwelt dialectic as a functional point of view.
As lebewesen we can't do anything against the systemic relation, the analogy, between prehension and metaphysics. This is our grounding.
Not really #newhere but new account about myths & #mythology, #metaphysics & #religion, #fetish & #poetry, #language & #ethics, #longboarding & #cityscape (or sometimes hiking & landscapes), #linguistics & #biology.
I’m potentially going to post in English & French, and may quote anything in Romance, Indic, Sinitic or Semitic languages.
(He/him. Transpolytheist. Chaotic individualist, but inclusive idealist.)
The truth about fiction
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself
by Hannah H Kim
I'm glad to have space to get to writing, and the first writing project of my sabbatical has reached first-draft stage. If you're interested in modal logic, proof theory, and the metaphysics of contingent existence, have I got the paper for you!
https://consequently.org/writing/mlce-ge2/
I've got to say, I think the hypersequent calculus in this paper is pretty neat.
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What's so "expansive" about the atheism that appears in the argument from freedom?
The argument from freedom starts with the atheistic belief that there is no Creator; but also... there are no truly fundamental laws of physics; no external influencers on the universe; no external sources; no external causes. Nothing is "outside of" or "prior to" to reality. There are no brute facts imposed upon reality, as if from the outside.
Why? Well - atheism is just a belief - I don't have an argument for it. But I can share that do not believe it makes any sense for reality to be subject to constraints because, to me, it is a sort of anthropomorphization: we are highly constrained creatures, and we misapply our experience to what we imagine reality to be like.
I call all these things (Gods, Laws, Brute Facts, etc.) "constraints" - and I don't believe reality as a whole can be constrained.
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In the *argument from freedom*, one starts with an expansive form of atheism, and... what sort of philosophy is this? It lives in the same space as atheism: it is a completely different sort of philosophy depending on whether or not it's correct. On the one hand, if it's true, the whole argument is about human ideas and which ones are wrong. But if it's false, it is an incorrect argument about reality itself.
But hold on...
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An interesting feature of #atheism is that if atheism is true, it is not a belief about reality itself. It is instead a belief about human ideas: that certain human ideas about reality are false.
But if atheism is false, it is indeed about reality (albeit a wrong idea about reality).
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”
― Marcel Proust
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