thoughts on the important distinction between ‘material’ and ‘social’ properties and relations in Marxist analysis
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Simplicity and Sense-Data
I compare Russell's response to skepticism about material objects in The Problems of Philosophy (1912) and Our Knowledge of the External World (1914). Notably, his view on simplicity changes between the two books.
Knowledge as a Form of True Belief; Understanding as Forms of Justified Belief
An essay in response to Duncan Pritchard's views of 'knowledge' and 'understanding'. Written for Pritchard's class: Topics in the Theory of Knowledge.