About
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.
DMP security
let’s talk about “making money online” sometime soon
heh yeah def–maybe I should change that to “‘legit’ ways to make money online’”
Hi David!
Got your message on my blog — I’d love to talk to you about gender and WoW. That topic is near to my nerdy girl’s heart, from the free stuff to girl avatars to “RU REALLY A GIRL?” to couples playing together to girls-only guilds to, well I could keep talking all day. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say!
Great, I’ll send you an email about it. I think that sort of angle could not only be fun (in the sense that being critical is fun) but smokin’ right now (in the sense of being a hot topic and being very marketable!)
I dare not say more–but do expect an email so we can discuss our options.
Hi David,
I’ve enjoyed browsing your stuff. Your the first blogger on the supposed philosophy stream of WordPress who seems to have a notion of what belongs there.
I think the answer to the Why Wittengenstein Interesting question is “He just is”. And, so far as I know, the only name philosopher to get a mention in the Simpsons.
Cheers,
Harry.