PhD student, Ethics and Epistemology of Machine Learning

MeDiCo

The “metaphysical distance coffee”

A reading group of the 2019/20 PH419: “Set Theory and further Logic” course at the Philosophy Department, LSE with Prof. Miklos Redei. The meetings took place from January 2020 to January 2024.

  1. Carnap, Rudolf (1932). The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language.
  2. Quine, W. V. (1951). Main trends in recent philosophy: Two dogmas of empiricism. In: The philosophical Review, pp. 20-43.
  3. Wittgenstein, L. (1961). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (trans. Pears and McGuinness), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7.
  4. Davis, P. J., Hersh, R., & Marchisotto, E. A. (1995). The mathematical experience (study ed.), Chapter 7: “From Certainty to Fallibility”.
  5. Vetter, Barbara (2018). Digging Deeper: Why Metaphysics is More Than a Toolbox.
  6. Schlick, M. (1930). The turning point in philosophy.
  7. Dennett, D. C. (2006). Higher-order truths about chmess. Topoi, 25(1-2), 39-41.
  8. von Neumann, John (1955). Can we survive technology?
  9. Popper, K. (1970). Normal Science and its Dangers.
  10. Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat? The philosophical review, 83(4), 435-450.
  11. Woodward, J. (2017). Interventionism and the Missing Metaphysics. Metaphysics and the philosophy of science: New essays, 193.
  12. McSweeney, MM (2019). Logical Realism and the Metaphysics of Logic. In: Philosophy Compass. DOI.
  13. Turner, B. S. (2006). Logic(s). Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2–3), 87–93. DOI.
  14. Hodes, Harold T. (1984). Logicism and the Ontological Commitments of Arithmetic.
  15. Richardson (1994). Carnap’s Principle of Tolerance. http://www.jstor.com/stable/4107023
  16. Heidegger, M., Thoma, D., Moore, I. A., & Fried, G. (2018). What Is Metaphysics? Original Version/Was ist Metaphysik? Urfassung. Philosophy Today, 62(3), 733-751. DOI.
  17. Hjortland, O. T. (2017). Anti-exceptionalism about logic. Philosophical Studies, 174(3), 631-658.
  18. Bradley, R. (2004). Ramsey’s representation theorem. Dialectica, 58(4), 483-497.
  19. Daston, L. (1994). How probabilities came to be objective and subjective. Historia Mathematica, 21(3), 330-344.
  20. Wigner, E. (1906). The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 13, 1–14.
  21. Leitgeb, H. (2013). Scientific philosophy, mathematical philosophy, and all that. Metaphilosophy, 44(3), 267-275.
  22. Lycan, W. G. (2010). What, exactly, is a paradox? Analysis, 70(4), 615-622.
  23. Thompson, E., Frigg, R., & Helgeson, C. (2016). Expert judgment for climate change adaptation. Philosophy of Science, 83(5), 1110-1121.
  24. Legg, C. (2013). What is a logical diagram? In Visual reasoning with diagrams (pp. 1-18). Birkhäuser, Basel.
  25. Russell, G. (2018), Logical Nihilism: could there be no logic?. Philosophical Issues, 28: 308-324.
  26. Carroll, L. (1895). What the tortoise said to Achilles. Mind, 4(14), 278-280.
  27. Smith, P. (2011). Squeezing arguments. Analysis, 71(1), 22-30.
  28. Griffiths, O. (2013). Problems for logical pluralism. History and Philosophy of Logic, 34(2), 170-182.
  29. Kitcher, P. (2011). Philosophy inside out. Metaphilosophy, 42(3), 248-260.
  30. Páez, A. (2019). The pragmatic turn in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Minds and Machines, 29(3), 441-459.
  31. Latour, B. (2004). Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Critical inquiry, 30(2), 225-248.
  32. Frances, B. (2021). Philosophical proofs against common sense. Analysis, 81(1), 18-26.
  33. Ryckman, T. (2021). Metaphysics Avoidance: Mark Wilson and Ernst Cassirer. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 103(2), 466-472.
  34. Marcus, R. (2015). The Eleatic and the indispensabilist. THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia, 30(3), 415-429.
  35. Reinhardt, L. (2015). Good and bad arithmetical manners. Analysis, 75(1), 26-28.
  36. Nietzsche, F. (2017). Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings. Essay 3 (3rd ed., Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (K. Ansell-Pearson, Ed.; C. Diethe, Trans.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  37. Foucault, M. (1971). Orders of discourse. Social Science Information, 10(2), 7–30
  38. Bright, L. K. (2022). Two Tendencies.
  39. von Hofmannsthal, Hugo (1902). The Letter of Lord Chandos.
  40. Wolters, G. (2015). Globalized parochialism: Consequences of English as Lingua Franca in philosophy of science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 29(2), 189-200.
  41. Davidson, D. (1973). On the very idea of a conceptual scheme. In Proceedings and addresses of the American Philosophical Association (Vol. 47, pp. 5-20). American Philosophical Association.
  42. Feyerabend, P. (1999). Theses on anarchism. For and against Method: Including Lakatos’s lectures on scientific method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend correspondence, 113-118.
  43. Doulas, L., & Welchance, E. (2021). Against philosophical proofs against common sense. Analysis, 81(2), 207-215.
  44. Chomsky, N. (2023). The False Promise of ChatGPT. in: “The New York Times”, 08.03.2023.
  45. Narayanan, A., Salganik, M. (2020). Limits to prediction: pre-read. COS 597E / SOC 555, Princeton University.