| David Banach Department of Philosophy St. Anselm College |
Writing
Academic Writing and Talks
Works on Miscellaneous Topics in the Philosophy of Science
Putnam’s Model Theoretic Argument
Representing, Similarity, and the Storage of Information
An Unexpected Examination of Yablo’s Paradox
Putnam on Reference
Short Summary of Putnam’s central examples concerning meaning and natural kinds
Representing and Knowing
The problems of Objectivity and Realism discussed through a new view of what it is to represent.
Being Smart about Intelligent Design
Science and the Meaning of Life:Responding to Evangelical Atheism
Papers on Levinas, Dostoevsky, or Simone Weil
Love and Masculinity in Levinas
The Wisdom of Love: Love and Solidarity in Levinas
Eternity and the Bondage of Time: Whitehead and Spinoza on Grace and Affliction in Simone Weil
The Logic of Laceration in The Brothers Karamazov
Desire, Personal Identity, and the Infinite in Descartes, Whitehead, and Levinas
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.
Other Topics
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
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