PAPERS IN PROGRESS


LOTR is a draft paper entitled ‘The fantasy of safety through power: the psycho-political philosophy of The Lord of the Rings’

Sorites and Woodsellers is a draft paper entitled ‘‘Logically alien thought’ and the dissolution of sorites paradoxes’.

"M.McG 6.54" is a draft paper on Marie McGinn's reading of the Tractatus, and on how it founders on the rock of Tractatus 6.54.

"West" is an unpublished Critical Notice of Cornel West's book, 'The American evasion of philosophy: A genealogy of Pragmatism'.

"Infinity draft" is work in progress on infinity in maths and in linguistics.

"Sass corrected"is a long draft paper (or a short draft book?) consisting of almost the entirety of my thoughts on the important philosophy of psych(opath)ology of Louis Sass. It has been source material for my published papers on Sass, schizophrenia, 'derangement', etc.

"Winch hss draft" is a DRAFT of a paper I hope eventually to submit to HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, critiquing recent work in that journal especially on Winch.

“Anchoring Therapy” is WORK IN PROGRESS jointly authored by myself and Phil Hutchinson.

“On Chomsky” is a DRAFT for my planned book, "Wittgenstein Among the Sciences".

"On Certainty section 501: a key to the last Wittgenstein ” is an alternative version (a longer, preferred version) of the paper of mine on OC 501 that was published by Moyal-Sharrock and Brenner in their collection on OC..

“Against Friedman: Outline of a Winchian critique of positivist economics” is a draft of material forthcoming in my [forthcoming] joint book with Wes Sharrock and Phil Hutchinson on Peter Winch and ‘social science’.

“SEEING THINGS FOR THEMSELVES: WINCH, ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNOMETHODOLOGY & SOCIAL STUDIES” is a DRAFT for my planned book, "Wittgenstein Among the Sciences".

“On philosophy’s lack of progress: Wittgenstein, Plato, Rawls.” is a draft paper on Rawls’s Theory of Justice in the context of the history of philosophy.

“Refusing to hear the ‘Refuseniks’.” is a shortened version of a draft paper on Rawls and the Israeli refuseniks.

“Three strikes against ‘the difference principle’.” is a draft setting out the main lines of thought that I am developing in my current work on an m.s. on Rawls and dangerous climate change, wherein I radically critique the political philosophy of liberalism.