7 questions relating to the existence of possible worlds
1. To make a case that possible worlds exist, in what ways can they be accounted for. 2. Is the...
Why fiction can’t be the imaginary
If fiction is defined as what is ‘imaginary’ problems arise because the move renders the phenomenon dependent on authorial intent....
Why Abstract Propositions are of Utility, by way of Jabberwocky.
To illustrate the utility of abstract propositions, consider that Jabberwocky, in talking of ‘slithy toves’, references two fictional worlds, fw,...
Poll reporting and Margin of Error.
For good or ill – well, ill – polling has become a cornerstone of the Australian political process. This is...
Defining Propaganda: criteria and examples
The term ‘propaganda’ has negative connotations in modern communications, meaning that it sometimes seems to equate to ‘bad’ or ‘unethical’...
The Posthuman (a lecture)
‘In their ten-thousand, three hundred and ninth year of marriage, Leila and Jasim began contemplating death. They had known love,...
That all texts are the same text (if of similar length)
Philosophers muse on the ideal pre-emptive reading for an attempt to climb through clouds to the summits of Hegelian abstraction....
Accidental non-fiction
A narrative text sets out the romantic but tumultuous journey of A. and B. as their true affection for one...
backwards-branching time and fictive Socrates
implications for Plato. ..if statements about some particular, necessary past are True and statements about alternatives False, then Plato, in...
Notes on time
Questions on time Is time finite in extent or infinite? Is it parcels at the ‘shortest duration’ or continuous,...