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Status: Personal Identity (2023 - September)
(Text as at 04/10/2023 21:59:02)
*** 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. But 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 here1.
- The jumping-off point for my thesis is here2, though follow the links from the Chapter Abstracts for the real work, and a (currently not very helpful) progress dashboard is here3.
Summary of Progress during July - September 2023
- I spent 374.25 hours in 23Q3 on this Project, or related work (871.5 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2022). That's 159.9% of the planned effort (92.9% YTD). Overall, 57.3% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 33.6% YTD) - as against 35.3% planned (34.6% YTD).
- The – then upcoming – King’s College Cambridge 50th Anniversary Reunion (12th August 2023) put in my head the question ‘what have I done with my life?’. One thing I’ve not done is complete my researches into Personal Identity. Nor will I ever complete a PhD without a radical change of priority. So, I decided at the end of July effectively to mothball, the important or enjoyable distractions – Bridge4, Languages5, Philosophy of Religion6 – and try to focus exclusively on my Thesis, though with increased attention in the short term to my Web Tools project insofar as it is necessary to support my philosophy.
- Hence, as can be seen, I exceeded my time budget by about 60%, though not enough to recover my annual budget, which was still 7% short.
- My immediate focus has been on a very detailed analysis of
→ "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology",
with some diversion into the works of Lynne Rudder Baker, namely:-
→ "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson", and
→ "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face".
- As spin-offs from Olson I read "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - The First Person" but didn’t really get much out of it; "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things" was more enlightening.
- As a way into the latest AI controversy, I spent some considerable time on "Aeon - Video - Changeling" and spin-offs.
- I completed the first draft of my biography of Henry7, my late dog. I hope to add further philosophical reflection in due course.
- As background or holiday tasks I spent a lot of time on:-
→ "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov" (at Nat’s instigation; currently paused)
→ "Figes (Orlando) - The Story of Russia" (complete)
→ "Somerset Maugham (W.) - Collected Short Stories: Volume 2" (now awaiting the next holiday – the end of July 2024)
- To control the various links within my Thesis, I’ve created and maintained a PID Note Usage8 Page, though this didn’t get much of a look in this Quarter.
- It’s never possible to do it justice to Aeon, when a dozen or so interesting papers turn up every week. I continue to lose the fight to restrict the top priority to 10 items. I’ve now stopped importing everything into my database, restricting myself to what is really relevant. I still need to be more strict.
- Progress between reports can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List9.
- A full list of items worked on in the quarter appears below:-
Thesis (Total Hours = 299.25)
- Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 291.25)
- "Aeon - Video - 4124.GreyKey" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - 73 cows" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
- "Aeon - Video - Are we living in a quantum sandwich?" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - Changeling" (Read / Write, 19.25 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - Pupil Diversity" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - Some Kind of Intimacy" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - The return of the takhi" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
- "Aeon - Video - Why Teleportation Isn't Total Science Fiction" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - The First Person" (Read / Write, 7 hours)
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things" (Read / Write, 6.25 hours)
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face" (Read / Write, 45.75 hours)
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson" (Read / Write, 8.75 hours)
- "Black (Riley) - The dinosaurs didn’t rule" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
- "Calkin (Jessamy) - A boy named Sophie" (Read / Write, 4.75 hours)
- "Cave (Peter) - Few of us desire true equality - It’s time to own up to it" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Cave (Peter) - Humour and Paradox Laid Bare" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Cave (Peter) - Reeling and A-Reasoning: Surprise Examinations and Newcomb's Tale" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Cave (Peter) - Too self-fulfilling" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Chisholm (Roderick) - The First Person: Essay on Reference and Intentionality" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Frankl (Viktor E.) - Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust" (Read, 1.5 hours)
- "Frary (Mark) - Beyond Repair" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Gable (Robert S.) - Efforts to expand the lifespan ignore what it’s like to get old" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
- "Galton (Francis) - Visualised Numerals" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Godfrey-Smith (Peter) - Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Goranko (Valentin) - Temporal Logics" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
- "Jaarsma (Ada) - Choose your own birth" (Read, 1.25 hours)
- "Korhonen (Anna), Woodward (Sarah) - This idea must die: 'AI will outsmart the human race'" (Write, 1 hour)
- "Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) & Barrett (Deirdre) - Video - Deirdre Barrett on dreams" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
- "Love (Shayla) - How to connect with your future self" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
- "Matthews (Gareth B.) - Accidental unities" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Middleton (Anna), Welford (Megan) - The Ethics of Genomics" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Middleton (Guy D.) - The horrors of Pompeii" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
- "Moreno Figueroa (Monica), Jolin (Lucy) - A world without oppression to you" (Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Nagel (Thomas) - What is it Like to Be a Bat?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals" (Read / Write, 49.75 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains" (Read / Write, 7.25 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Bundles" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution" (Read / Write, 12.5 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Contents + References" (Write, 5.5 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Nihilism" (Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Souls" (Write, 1.25 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts" (Read / Write, 5.25 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question" (Read / Write, 38.5 hours)
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? What Now?" (Write, 4.25 hours)
- "Peckham (Jeremy) - AI, humanity and Christian ministry" (Write, 1 hour)
- "Peckham (Jeremy) - Masters or Slaves?: AI And The Future Of Humanity" (Read / Write, 4.25 hours)
- "Putnam (Hilary) - Brains in a Vat" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Ramsey (William) - Eliminative Materialism" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Personal Identity" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Sinclair (David) - Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Some Objections to Animalism" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Sunar (Neesa) - I have no mind's eye: let me try to describe it for you" (Read / Write, 4.5 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Henry" (Write, 27.25 hours)
- "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Review - Roderick M. Chisholm - The First Person: An Essay on Reference and Intentionality" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Venkataraman (Vivek V.) - Lessons from the foragers" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
- "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams" (Read, 2 hours)
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity" (Read, 0.5 hours)
- Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 8)
- Admin - Thesis - Outline & Initial Research (July - Sept) - Discussions at King's (0.5 hours)
- Admin - Thesis - Outline & Initial Research (July - Sept) - Discussions of Irish 'Hate Speech' Bill (0.75 hours)
- Admin - Thesis - Outline & Initial Research (July - Sept) - King's Reunion Follow-up (0.75 hours)
- "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (July - Sept)" (6 hours)
Thesis Background (Total Hours = 50.25)
- Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 46.75)
- "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov" (Read / Write, 15.25 hours)
- Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov - Discussons at King's (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Figes (Orlando) - The Story of Russia" (Read / Write, 13 hours)
- Figes (Orlando) - The Story of Russia - Discussions at King's (Read, 0.5 hours)
- "Interaction - Philos-List" (Read, 1.5 hours)
- "Lawrence (D.H.) - The Prussian officer and Other Stories" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- "Orwell (George) - George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels" (Write, 0.5 hours)
- "Plokhy (Serhii) - Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin" (Write, 0.75 hours)
- "Plokhy (Serhii) - The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" (Read, 1.25 hours)
- "Somerset Maugham (W.) - Collected Short Stories: Volume 2" (Read / Write, 13 hours)
- "Somerset Maugham (W.) - The Razor's Edge" (Write, 0.25 hours)
- Thesis Background - Books Admin
- Thesis Background - Status
Thesis (Aeon) (Total Hours = 24.75)
- Aeon: Aldhouse-Green - The secret life of Druids (Comments; Read / Write, 2 hours)
- Aeon: Alexander & Bunschoten - Crème de la crème (Comments; Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
- Aeon: Gray - It’s not only political conservatives who worry about moral purity (Comments; Read / Write, 1 hour)
- Aeon: Hassett - How to grow a human (Comments; Read, 0.5 hours)
- Aeon: Hoeg - Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me (Comments; Read, 1 hour)
- Aeon: Minton - Do not forget them (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - A journey to Viking Iceland with Kári Gíslason (Comments; Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Chinoiserie (Comments; Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
- Aeon: Video - Kowloon Walled City (Comments; Read / Write, 1 hour)
- Aeon: Video - Takrar (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
- Aeon: Video - The jury theorem (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
- Aeon: Video - The Physics of Music (Comments; Read, 1.25 hours)
- "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (Write, 13.25 hours)
Plans for the Near Future – Top Priority Tasks
- One thing that repeatedly occurs 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 continuity10. Sadly, this hasn’t got far yet.
- I have a skeleton thesis11 in place. This now needs to be filled out.
- First of all, continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs12 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 increased the plan to 29 hours / week13.
- In the coming quarter I hope to
- Ensure that all recently acquired Books and pdfs are logged to my database and appear in the relevant Thesis Chapters, as appropriate.
- Complete commentaries on:-
→ "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology", and
→ "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face"
- Most of what I’m working on appears in the reading lists for the Thesis chapters. Items below are either those that don’t, or a few which require particular focus:-
- Continue with my Thesis14; in particular
- Spend at least an hour a day writing something original: an essay on the difference between Forward and Backward Psychological Continuity15.
- Continue filling out those sections of my Thesis that I can write something on without further research, using books / papers already analysed.
- Continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs16 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 Beliefs17.
- Make progress on specific Chapters of my Thesis, using the tasks outlined in my Thesis Dashboard18, using the materials listed19 in the Chapters and underlying Notes.
- Ensure the following foundational Books20 required for my Thesis are fully annotated21. In particular:-
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View",
- "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", and
- "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology".
- Draw up a further SHORT list of books that MUST be studied in great detail.
- Read and comment on22 the following remaining PhD Theses relevant to my own Thesis:-
- "Baggini (Julian) - Psychological Reductionism About Persons: A Critical Development",
- "Eddebo (Johan) - Death and the Self: A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate",
- "Ferner (Adam) - Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity",
- "Gendler (Tamar Szabo) - Imaginary Exceptions: On the Powers and Limits of Thought Experiment",
- "Keles (Serap) - Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism",
- "Kotak (Aakash) - The Hybrid Theory of Personal Identity" (MPhil Thesis)
- "Lechthaler (Manuel) - Composition and Identities",
- "Lybaert (Fauve) - Personal Identity and the Formal Self",
- "Paez (Eze) - Abortion: What We Ought to Believe - An Ontological and Normative Analysis",
- "Parsons (Josh) - Theories of Persistence",
- "Rau (Philipp) - The Author, Not the Tale: Memory, Narrative, and the Self",
- "Skow (Bradford) - Once Upon a Spacetime",
- "Southgate (Susan Jane) - Personal Identity: The Simple View",
- "Trakas (Marina) - Personal Memories", and
- "Woods (Evan Thomas) - The Problems of the Many".
- Apply the issues raised by recently-read PhD Theses relevant to my own Thesis to my various Notes:-
- "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism",
- "Hodson (Sommer) - A Hybrid View of Personal Identity",
- Follow up on Keith Augustine's comments on my review of "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'".
- Follow up on Wayne Stewart's comments on my Note on Closest Continuers23, including reading and reviewing the following:-
- "Epstein (Dmitry) - What if We’re Still Here? A Selfish Reason to Care for Future Generations",
- "Stewart (Wayne) - Metaphysics by Default - Chapter 09: Existential Passage",
- "Stewart (Wayne) - Metaphysics by Default",
- "Stewart (Wayne) - Uzgalis: Accidentally Opening a Transmigration Window by Nixing the Proper Continuer",
- "Clark (Tom) - A Notable Theoretical Convergence",
- "Robert (David) - The Existential Passage Hypothesis",
- "Uzgalis (William) - Review - Dainton - The Phenomenal Self", and
- "Clark (Tom) - Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity"
- Complete analysing the following papers24:-
→ "Cofnas (Nathan) - Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry",
→ "Corabi (Joseph) & Schneider (Susan) - The Metaphysics of Uploading",
→ "Francione (Gary) - We must not own animals",
→ "Francione (Gary) & Charlton (Anna E.) - The case against pets",
→ "Frary (Mark) - Beyond Repair",
→ "Galton (Francis) - Visualised Numerals",
→ "Giusti (Elena) & Derbew (Sarah) - Decolonizing Blackness, alongside the Classics Curriculum: A conversation with Dr Sarah Derbew",
→ "Gradesaver - The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: Study Guide - Introduction", Etc.
→ "Hume (David) - Treatise I.IV.VI: Of Personal Identity",
→ "Kobie (Nicole) - Neuralink: an old idea that could be the future of medicine",
→ "Korhonen (Anna), Woodward (Sarah) - This idea must die: 'AI will outsmart the human race'",
→ "Loose (Jonathan) - Materialism Most Miserable The Prospects for Dualist and Physicalist Accounts of Resurrection",
→ "Middleton (Anna), Welford (Megan) - The Ethics of Genomics"
→ "Moreno Figueroa (Monica), Jolin (Lucy) - A world without oppression to you",
→ "Olson (Eric) - The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism",
→ "Paris (J.J.) & Elias-Jones (A.C.) - Do we murder Mary to save Jodie?",
→ "Peckham (Jeremy) - AI, humanity and Christian ministry",
→ "Putnam (Hilary) - Brains in a Vat",
→ "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity",
→ "Walker (Robert) - Mary And Jodie – The Case Of The Conjoined Twins",
→ "Watkin (Christopher) - Christianity and critical race theory",
- Ensure the annotations from recently-read Papers are added to the relevant Notes:-
→ "Ayers (Michael R.) - Locke on Living Things"
→ "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson"
- 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-essays25.
- Determine how the first is produced, and why the pdfs aren't highlighted, and compare with Write-ups Notes Jump Table
- Convert outstanding Essays & Précises.
- Complete cataloguing the books downloaded from Springer,
- Continue / complete reading / annotating various books26 that have landed in my in-tray:-
- "Barash (David P.) - Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are",
- "Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity",
- "Borges (Jorge Luis) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings",
- "Bostrom (Nick) - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies",
- "Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death",
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking",
- "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov",
- "Doyle (Andrew) - The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World",
- "Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging",
- "Green (Joel B.) - Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible",
- "Hasker (William) - The Emergent Self",
- "Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds. - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul",
- "Kagan (Shelly) - How to Count Animals, more or less",
- "Korsgaard (Christine) - Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals",
- "Levitin (Daniel) - The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well",
- "Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers",
- "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death",
- "Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time",
- "Peckham (Jeremy) - Masters or Slaves?: AI And The Future Of Humanity",
- "Plokhy (Serhii) - Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin",
- "Rowlands (Mark) - The Philosopher and the Wolf",
- "Ricard (Matthieu) - A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion",
- "Schneider (Susan) - Artificial You",
- "Seth (Anil Kumar) - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness",
- "Seung (Sebastian) - Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are",
- "Smith (C. Paul) - The Climate Change Hoax Argument: the history and science that expose a major international deception",
- "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams",
- "Wilson (Jack) - Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities",
- "Wright (Craig) - The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness", and
- "Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death".
- Complete my Note on "Smith (Martin) - Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row Is Not Surprising" and discuss with Pete & Mike.
- Continue reading and reviewing papers issued by Aeon27 (and the occasional spin-off). In particular, complete write-ups for:-
→ "Francione (Gary) & Charlton (Anna E.) - The case against pets"
→ "Francione (Gary) - We must not own animals"
→ "Friston (Karl) - Karl Friston: Embodied cognition"
→ "Humphrey (Nicholas) - Seeing and somethingness"
→ "Jaarsma (Ada) - Choose your own birth"
→ "Lachmann (Michael) & Walker (Sara) - Life ≠ alive"
→ "Neumeyer (Joy) - The discontent of Russia"
→ "Marino (Lori) - Happy the person"
→ "Metzinger (Thomas) - Are you sleepwalking now?"
→ "Schwenkler (John) - What does it take for someone to become a ‘different person’?"
→ "Sebo (Jeff) & Schukraft (Jason) - Don’t farm bugs"
→ "Sebo (Jeff) - Against human exceptionalism"
→ "Sunar (Neesa) - I have no mind's eye: let me try to describe it for you"
→ "Zangwill (Nick) - Why you should eat meat"
→ "Zangwill (Nick) - Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat"
- Keep up with the Journals via JSTOR & Cambridge Core.
- Update my Journals Note28: 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.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 13:
- 24 hours / week – while still ludicrously inadequate for what I want to achieve – is approximately what would be expected of a part-time research student. So, planning to exceed this is ‘a good thing’ provided I use the time wisely and efficiently.
Footnote 19:
- I used to itemise 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.
Footnote 20:
- This list could get very long, so restrict it to 3 books!
- I'll replace these with new ones when completed.
Footnote 21:
- This is extremely time-consuming, and will not be possible for all books and papers of interest.
Footnote 22:
- There are rather a lot of these, so some will have to be skimmed.
- There were a few more on less central topics.
- I hope to whittle these down as time goes by!
Footnote 24:
- This list used to get inordinately long and has been culled.
- Ensure this doesn't happen again!
Footnote 26:
- This list is getting ludicrously long, and either needs addressing or pruning!
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