[X-posted in lokisworld1 ]

I did it!  The grueling nightmare that has consumed the back of my mind for over a year is coming to an end!

That's right.  I finished my thesis.  Now - pending my advisor's approval and my defense before a committee - they will give me my degree.  And I will be done.  This rocks my socks like nothing else.

For those of you who wish ( Read more... )

X-posted to heidicmorris

[After I wrote this post, I could tell it was nearly as much about philosophy of language as it was about Austrian economics, so I decided to x-post it here.]

Wow.  In reading a photocopied section of [Ludwig] von Mises' Human Action (Chapter XV), I just came across a very simple description that I've always wanted to express, but ( Read more... )

...I'll link to a paper on epistemology that I finished recently:  Justified Belief or Knowledge? A Task for Epistemology.

This paper deals with the internalism/externalism debate, and the crucial question of whether the justification of belief can apply prior to a notion of knowledge.  What is knowledge?  Does it actually fall under the genus of ( Read more... )

Having been inspired by my wife tyalangan , who started her own community (heidicmorris ) specifically for the discussion of economics, I have decided to form this community to discuss topics in my own field, which is - you guessed it! - philosophy.

I already have a well-formulated and, I believe, rationally supported belief framework for philosophy.  That said, I do ( Read more... )