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Writing
Academic Writing and Talks
Papers on Topics in Modern Philosophy
"Berkeley's Argument and the Perspectivist Fallacy"
Banach, "Hume on Force and Vivacity and the Content of Ideas"
Outline of a paper on Hume’s view of force and vivacity and the content of abstract ideas
Banach, “Certainty and How to do Without
it”
Outline of paper containing a refutation of Hume’s criticism
of induction along
with an account of Hume’s views of the role of philosophy in
ordering our lives
Banach, “The
Impetus of Ideas”
Outline of a paper based on Hume’s view of the force and
vivacity of ideas applied to the problem of representation.
Papers
on the impications of cellular automata such as Conway's Life
A New Kind of Dualism (Abstract): A paper on some philosophical implications of using the Life world as a model for how mechanism works.
Powerpoint (video
clips will most likely not play over internet)
Executable
archive of Powerpoint along with video clips
(Download, run to extract, and then play on your computer.
What
killed substantial form?
A paper on the origins of Mechanism in the Scientific Revolution and a
new view of substantial form, using Life as the main illustration.
Mechanism and Levels of
Being
A paper on the limits of Mechanism and how it leads to a new view of
form, using Life as the main illustration.
Freedom and inevitablity as a properties of events in time.
Works on Miscellaneous Topics in the Philosophy of Science
Being Smart about Intelligent Design
Science and the Meaning of Life:
Responding to Evangelical Atheism
Putnam's Model Theoretic Argument
Representing, Similarity, and the Storage of Information
Putnam on Reference
Short
Summary of Putnam's central examples concerning meaning and natural
kinds
The problems of Objectivity and Realism discussed through a new view of what it is to represent.
Other Topics
Does Anything Really Matter, and Does it Really Matter if it Does?
Humanities Lectures
Outline
of Some
Important Points from Sartre's Existentialism and Human
Emotions
"The
Ethics of Absolute Freedom"
Outline
of some main points from Camus “An Absurd Reasoning”
Michelangelo and the Value of Art
Galileo and the
Origins of the Modern World
Marie
Curie and the Revolution in Our Concept of Matter
David Banach
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