Some Papers

Wiggins on the Necessity of Identity

A refutation - so say E J Lowe and I - of David Wiggins' 'Proof' of the necessity of true identity statements, in his Sameness and Substance.

In HTML format.

Does a Thing Exist While It's Broken?

Does a thing exist while it's so broken up that if it were never put back together again we'd say it already had ceased to exist now? In HTMLformat.

Heaps, Bits, Hunks, and Minds

From the mid-'70s: How many minds associated with a split-brain subject? In HTML format.

Rawls, Nozick, and Microcases

Robert Nozick thought it odd that Rawls' Difference Principle doesn't apply to 'microcases'. This sets him right :-) In HTML format.

Applying the Categorical Imperative

This is from the early 70s, on how to apply Kant's Categorical Imperative. There are some connections drawn with generalization principles, and with Rawls' work on justice. In HTML format.

J and Elementary Logic

In the early '80s I did a paper called 'APL and Elementary Logic' in APL Quote-Quad. This is an update, with some new material, for J. The ZIP file includes a couple of J scripts. (Zipped RTF). (Zipped Word 5.0).

Reflections on Der Ring des Nibelungen