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Status: Personal Identity (2021 - June)
(Text as at 02/07/2021 20:32:38)
*** THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION OF THIS NOTE ***
(For the live version and other versions of this Note, see the tables at the end)
Rationale for this Project
- I am researching the subject of Personal Identity primarily because of its intrinsic interest and importance. It is really a sub-topic in my Philosophy of Religion1 project, with its penultimate chapter considering the metaphysical possibility of resurrection.
- While I’m interested in the topic of my research in its own right, I think when I’ve sorted it out a bit, and have something to say, I’ll want to engage with other philosophers active in this field – and re-starting a PhD at Birkbeck or elsewhere might be the only effective way to do this.
- While a PhD is not an end in itself, and certainly not the ultimate aim of my doing philosophy, it’s still true that a PhD would teach me research techniques, provide focus and direction, and furnish a professional qualification should I want to publish any results in this or any other area of philosophy.
- The best place to get an overview of my current views is here2.
- The jumping-off point for my thesis is here3, and a progress dashboard is here4. Both have been recently revised.
Summary of Progress during April - June 2021
- I spent 362 hours in 21Q2 on this Project, or related work (1036.5 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2020). That's 117.5% of the planned effort (111% YTD). Overall, 52.3% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 51% YTD) - as against 44.4% planned (44.2% YTD).
- I worked hard and comfortably exceeded my quarterly time budget.
- I’ve virtually completed all the infrastructural work linking papers – whether read or not – to the appropriate PID Note, and thereby to the appropriate Thesis Chapter.
- The latest mini-project has been to provide local links to any paper for which I have the pdf.
- To control all this, I’ve created and enhanced a PID Note Usage5 Page.
- I’ve got yet further behind on reading Aeon, but at the expense of “real work” on my Thesis.
- Progress between reports can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List6.
- A full list of items worked on in the quarter appears below.
Thesis (Total Hours = 220.75)
- Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 219.5)
- "Aamodt (Caitlin) - On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Addyman (Caspar) - Why playing peekaboo with babies is a very serious matter" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - Out of mind" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - Phrenology: the weirdest pseudoscience of them all?" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - The lion man" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - The secret language of trees" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - The undying hydra" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Allen (Nick) - Opening up the real-life X-files" (Read, 1.25 hours)
- "Andersen (Ross) - Exodus" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Andersen (Ross) - What Happens If China Makes First Contact?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - A Reply to Mr C. S. Lewis's Argument that 'Naturalism' is Self-Refuting" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Armstrong (John) - La bella vita" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Arnold (Carrie) - Watchers of the earth" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Askowitz (Andrea) - So I exaggerate a little – am I wrong to jazz up my stories?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Asma (Stephen) - Imagination is ancient" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Bakhurst (David) - Wiggins on Persons and Human Nature" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Ball (Matthew ) - The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Ball (Philip) - How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life" (Read, 0.75 hours)
- "Ball (Philip) - Machine envy" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Barash (David P.) - Animal magnetism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Bednarowski (W.) - The Riddle of Existence" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Review of Stephen Pinker - The Blank Slate ('Meet the Flintstones')" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Blackburn (Simon) - Review of Umberto Eco: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Bloom (Paul) - Artifacts" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Brody (Baruch) - Locke on the Identity of Persons" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Butler (Isaac) - Why Is Othello Black?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Cartwright (Helen Morris) - Review of 'Sameness and Substance' by David Wiggins" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Cave (Stephen) - Intelligence: a history" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Challenger (Melanie) - How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human" (Read / Write, 4 hours)
- "Challenger (Melanie) - The joy of being animal" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
- "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - The Relevance of Metaphysics to Bioethics: A Reply to Earl Conee" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Chisholm (Roderick) - Boundaries" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Chisholm (Roderick) - On the Simplicity of the Soul" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Conee (Earl) - Metaphysics and the morality of abortion" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Conee (Earl) - Reply to Timothy Chappell" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "The Week, Cooke (Rachel) - How Sleep Could Save Your Life" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Crabb (Jon) - Monster mash" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Damore (James) - Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Reflections on Dennett's 'Where Am I?'" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Eilan (Naomi) - The First Person Perspective" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Elder (Crawford) - Review. Natural kinds. T.E. Wilkerson" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Epstein (Robert) - The empty brain" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Ettenberg (Jodi) - Silence and Spiders at a 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Evans (Gareth) - Can There Be Vague Objects?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Ferguson (Matthew) - Bart Ehrman and Jodi Magness on the Burial of Jesus and the Empty Tomb" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Finley (Moses I.), Shaw (Brent D.), Ed. - Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology" (Read, 11.5 hours)
- "Fredkin (Edward) - On the Soul" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Frith (Christopher D.) - Our illusory sense of agency has a deeply important social purpose" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Fry (Hannah) - Video - Should computers run the world?" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Gallup (Gordon G.) - Levels, Limits, and Precursors to Self-Recognition: Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Gallup (Gordon G.) - Review: Griffin - Animal Minds" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Gallup (Gordon G.) - Self-Awareness in Primates: The sense of identity distinguishes man from most but perhaps not all other forms of life" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Garrett (Brian) - A Further Reply to Noonan" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Geach (Peter) - Reference and Generality: Prefaces and Analytical TOC" (Read / Write, 4.25 hours)
- "Hunt (Peter) - Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery" (Read / Write, 5.25 hours)
- "Janes (Mateja), Etc. - Population structure and genetic history of Tibetan Terriers" (Read, 1 hour)
- "Jawer (Michael) - Do only humans have souls, or do animals possess them too?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Kroon (Fred) - Descriptivism, Pretense, and the Frege-Russell Problems" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Kroon (Fred) - The Problem of 'Jonah': How Not to Argue for the Causal Theory of Reference" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Review of Noonan's 'Personal Identity'" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Sortal terms and absolute identity" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Mackie (J.L.) - The Riddle of Existence" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Martinho-Truswell (Antone) - Pigs, parrots and people: the problem of animal personality" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Medlock (Ben) - The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Merricks (Trenton) - A New Objection To A Priori Arguments for Dualism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Moshakis (Alex) - What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?" (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
- "Nagel (Thomas) - Subjective and Objective" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Newman (Sandra) - Infanticide" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute and Relative Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute and Relative Identity Concluded" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity Concluded" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Can One Thing Become Two?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Diachronic Identity as Relative Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Microphysical Supervenience and Consciousness" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Quine on Synchronic Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Sortal Concepts and Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Synchronic Identity as Relative Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - The Only X and Y Principle" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Noonan (Harold) - Wiggins, Artifact Identity and 'Best Candidate' Theories" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Nussbaum (Martha) - Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
- "Oppy (Graham) - Review of Dale Jacquette's 'Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence'" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Pinker (Steven) - How the Mind Works: Preface" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Pinker (Steven) - The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Pinker (Steven) - The Language Instinct: Preface" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Plantinga (Alvin) - Christian Philosophy At The End Of The 20th Century" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Price (H.H.) - The post-Resurrection appearances" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Price (H.H.) - Two conceptions of the Next World" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Quinn (Philip L.) - Review of Antony Flew's 'The Logic of Mortality'" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Rakowitz (Michael) - Video - Michael Rakowitz: haunting the West" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
- "Seung (Sebastian) - Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Shanahan (Murray) - Conscious exotica" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Skillings (Derek J.) - Life is not easily bounded" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Smolin (Lee) - Video - Lee Smolin: space and time" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Sosa (David) - The Import of the Puzzle About Belief" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Sutherland (Stewart R.) - Immortality and Resurrection" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Animal Rights" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Animals" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)" (Write, 13 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)" (Write, 11 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)" (Write, 11 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)" (Write, 11.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)" (Write, 11 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Concepts" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Consciousness" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Corpses" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Death" (Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Evolution" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Life" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Logic of Identity" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Memory" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Multiple Personality Disorder" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Narrative Identity" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Near Death Experiences" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Probability" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychology" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychopathology" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Quantum Mechanics" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Race" (Write, 2 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Religion" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Souls" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Time" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Transhumanism" (Write, 2 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - What Are We?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Philosophers and the Words 'Human Body'" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - What Do We Refer to When We Say 'I'?" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Vieira (Celso) - Which is more fundamental: processes or things?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Wartofsky (Marx W.) - Bodies, Body Parts, And Body Language: Reflections On Ontology And Personal Identity In Medical Practice" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Waxman (Olivia B.) - 'Critical Race Theory Is Simply the Latest Bogeyman.' Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History" (Read / Write, 4.75 hours)
- "Whipple (Tom) - Can animals think and feel in the way humans do?" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "White (Ian) - Kant on Forms of Intuition" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Williams (Bernard) - Are Persons Bodies?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Williams (Bernard) - Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Zacks (Jeffrey M.) - Getting smarter" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 1.25)
Thesis Background (Total Hours = 109.75)
- Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 34.5)
- Aeon: Scheidel - The road from Rome (Comments; Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
→ See "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (1.25 hours)
- "Craig (Albert M.) - The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa: Afterword. Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Philosphical Foundations of Meiji Nationalism" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Dermendzhiyska (Elitsa) - The misinformation virus" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Garnett (Constance) - Devils" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Garnett (Constance) - Notes From Underground & Other Stories" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Garnett (Constance) - The House of the Dead / The Gambler" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Keay (John) - India: A History" (Read, 20.75 hours)
- "Sowell (Thomas) - Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy" (Read / Write, 9.25 hours)
- Thesis Background - Books Admin (Total Hours = 65.25)
- Thesis Background - Status (Total Hours = 10)
Thesis (Aeon) (Total Hours = 31.5)
- "Aeon - Video - Degrees of uncertaincy" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
- "Aeon - Video - Sounds for Mazin" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - The Mozart effect" (Read, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Melvin-Koushki - Magic helped us in pandemics before, and it can again (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Smith - Exit the Fatherland (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - A brief history of the devil (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Colette (Comments; Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Hum chitra banate hai (We make images) (Comments; Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Kempelen's chess-playing automaton (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Light and microscopy (Comments; Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Rooms (Comments; Write, 0.75 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Samurai rules for peace and war (Comments; Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Thai country living (Comments; Read, 0.5 hours)
- Aeon: Video - The animal that wouldn't die (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - The seeker (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- Aeon: Video - This is Bate Bola (Comments; Read / Write, 1 hour)
- Aeon: Video - Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
- "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (Comments; Write, 20.5 hours)
Plans for the Near Future – Top Priority Tasks
- One thing that has occurred to me is that I’ve got into the habit of collecting stuff – masses of it – and loosely engaging with it, but not doing so seriously enough because of a scatter-gun approach. Also, I very seldom write anything of my own without close reference to what others have written. In a sense this is a good thing, but is destructive of creativity.
- So, I intend to spend at least an hour each and every day writing my own stuff. This isn’t really enough, but we’ll see how things go. Sadly, it hasn’t gone anywhere much in the last academic year.
- So, I have set myself a challenge: write a full-length paper on what I consider to be the critical issue in the philosophy of personal identity: the difference between forward and backward psychological continuity7.
- Further, now I’ve got my skeleton Notes into some sort of shape, I should allocate them to the Thesis text and see how this re-shapes my research.
- Otherwise … as before … I have a clear idea of what I want to do over the current academic year8, which is to complete a skeleton thesis9 to my own satisfaction. As such I require rigorous focus on the priority tasks, books and papers. Lower-priority reading is not likely to get a look in, so will be cut.
- First of all, continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs10 on the topic of Personal Identity, and ensure the associated Notes have some text. Let Sophie have a look at it, and consider submission to Aeon.
- An “ideal” next step (and one previously suggested) is to ensure that everything of relevance that I have actually read is written up and incorporated in my Notes database and only later – and secondly – consider anything that I have not yet read. This would require discipline, in that interesting new stuff is always turning up, and would be an iterative process. Further, given I’m not getting any younger, it could also be wasting time which should be focussed on using the most relevant materials.
- So, if what I’ve read and written on – in the form of particular papers on a particular topic – is most relevant, I’ll “process” that, but otherwise will start anew.
- As far as effort is concerned, I’ve maintained the plan at 24 hours / week11.
- So, the primary tasks for the next quarter will be to complete a full review of my Thesis12 in the light of the Notes I’ve created on Personal Identity, focusing on those directly referenced by my Current Beliefs13.
- I’ve drastically pruned the task list below, having checked that all items appear under the relevant PID Note. Items below are those that don’t :-
- Continue with my Thesis14; in particular
- Spend at least an hour a day writing something original.
- Fill out those sections that I can write something on without further research.
- Rework the structure so that Level-1 or -2 print produces the thesis with the correct reading-list.
- Continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs15 on the topic of Personal Identity.
- Regularly review and update of the Notes I’ve created on Personal Identity, focusing on those directly referenced by my Current Beliefs16.
- Make progress on specific Chapters of my Thesis, using the tasks outlined in my Thesis Dashboard17, using the materials listed18 in the Chapters and underlying Notes.
- Follow up on Keith Augustine's comments on my review of "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'".
- As background tasks:-
- Ensure all items in:-
→ "Various - Papers on Desktop", and
→ "Various - Papers in Desk Drawer"
are either addressed or re-filed.
- Maintain "Various - Papers & Books Yet To Be Logged", and log papers therein if they become important.
- Convert old PDFs to Notes:-
- Review the two reports:-
→ PDF-précis,
→ PDF-essays19.
- Determine how the first is produced, and why the pdfs aren't highlighted, and compare with Write-ups Notes Jump Table
- Re-read & enhance recent Précis conversions, ie:-
→ "Skyrms (Brian) - The Goodman Paradox and the New Riddle of Induction"
→ "Woolhouse (Roger) - Spinoza and Substance"
- Convert outstanding Essays.
- Complete cataloguing the books downloaded from Springer,
- Continue with "Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers",
- Complete reading (or make notes on):-
- "Borges (Jorge Luis) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings",
- "Bregman (Rutger) - Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers",
- "Dennett (Daniel) - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul: Introduction",
- "Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging",
- "Ord (Toby) - The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity",
- Complete my Note on "Smith (Martin) - Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row Is Not Surprising" and discuss with Pete & Mike.
- Economics:-
- "Bregman (Rutger) - Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There"
- "Bregman (Rutger) - Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers"
- "Reiss (Julian) - Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction"
- "Sowell (Thomas) - Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy"
- "Susskind (Daniel) - A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond"
- Continue reading and reviewing papers issued by Aeon20,
- Keep up with the Journals via JSTOR & Cambridge Core.
- Update my Journals Note21: Review the journals I have access to; more are available as a Cambridge Alumnus.
- Keep up with the philosophical world by regular reviews of "Interaction - Philos-List", but only seriously pursue items relevant to my research.
Summary of Progress to Date
This was hived off to a separate Note22 back in 2010, and hasn’t changed much since.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 8:
- Hopefully, I may complete, or get stuck, earlier.
- I had hoped to complete this phase of my research by my 65th birthday – ie. by 13/11/2018. Previously, I’ve remarked “This is not to slip!” Unfortunately, the distraction of the problems with Coxes Farm – as well as a general lack of focus – have meant that it has!
- On the plus side, I’m already much further advanced than would be expected of someone commencing a PhD.
- On the minus side, I want to go into much greater depth, and have other projects on the go – most notably Music, Philosophy of Religion, Bridge, Chess and – particularly – my Web-tools project.
- The original reason for deferring to my 65th birthday was that this is when I became eligible for my State Pension. This may not be much to live on – but it is a quite generous supplement which would make a significant contribution towards the fees and expenses, which prior thereto I couldn’t afford.
- Unfortunately, my state pension (and Julie’s, for that matter) has been more than gobbled up by payments on the – now four – mortgages I’ve had to take out to cover the repairs to Coxes Farm. We’ll be repaying that until 2031, by which time I’ll be 77.
Footnote 9:
- This used to say “complete a thesis …”, which is obviously impossible, given that my idea of a thesis is way in excess of what is required.
Footnote 11:
- This is still ludicrously inadequate for what I want to achieve, but is approximately what would be expected of a part-time research student.
Footnote 18:
- I used to list in this Note an ever-growing list of items accummulated over time, broken down by Chapter and Note.
- However, now both Chapters and Notes are getting into shape, there is no need to list these items again here, so they have been cut after checking they are covered in their place elsewhere.
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