This page is intended to give the reader some glimpse regarding the purpose of this blog and the relevant autobiographical details concerning its author.

About the blog

This blog was originally intended to serve as a sort of informal record of the thoughts and documents pertaining to my senior thesis.  Hot topics include Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language (especially where it concerns his later works/philosophical development)

About the author (David M. Price)

As for the relevant academic or professional stuff, I recommend you check out my CV (coming soon).

As for the relevant philosophical bent you could say I have, well, unfortunately that kind of thing is best left to the reader.  Despite the formality of some of my posts, and all of my papers, I try not to ascribe by any particular philosophical school of thought, let alone any school of thought.  It’s because I’m a Wittgensteinian regarding academic proper nouns.  Whoopsy! (just kidding)

 

The philosophical backdrop

Some of the topics I’m interested in could be discussed within the context of the following areas of study:

  • feminist philosophy (in particular, feminist philosophy of science, gender politics)
  • philosophy of language
  • Wittgenstein’s (personal) life and how it relates to his philosophical challenges and development
  • 20th century analytic and post-analytic philosophy (in particular, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, advanced logic – i.e., any logical system not attributed to Aristotle or an articulation of Aristotelian logic)
  • the “schism” in academic philosophy (i.e. the continental/analytic divide)
  • Plato’s epistemology
  • Cartesian epistemology
  • The Vienna Circle and its offshoots
  • Philosophy of science (in particular, Goodman and Kuhn’s philosophical theories)

I will update links as soon as I can for this section.