Gödel, Deleuze, Gettier, Goldman Added; Leibniz, Camus, Putnam, and Others Updated

Here is what I’ve done in the last three months:

  1. Kurt Gödel, Gilles Deleuze, Edmund Gettier, and Alvin Goldman are added.
  2. New sentences are added for Aristotle (2), Thomas Aquinas, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (7), Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell (2), Frank Ramsey, Albert Camus (4), Willard Van Orman Quine, Sir Peter Strawson, Michel Foucault, Hilary Putnam (4), Daniel Dennett.
  3. Dozens of new connections are drawn.

Many of the new sentences came from my recent readings on theories of truth and knowledge so as to include representative statements for the correspondance, coherence, pragmatic, and deflationary (redundancy, performative) theories of truth; and some of the responses to Gettier, the causal, reliability, and tracking theories of knowledge.


As for Leibniz; I wanted to get a more detailed picture of his monad system and I now have a better understanding of his original brand of determinism and causation. (I am aware that he now has a sentence arguing for the existence of free will and other sentences for determinism, and this is no accident: he is a compatibilist and I intend to work on the details of his compatibilism too.)

For Deleuze, I studied Todd May’s Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction recommended to me by Rodney Handelsman as an accessible summary for people like me who are closer to the analytical school – and it was. I also tried to reboot my long-unused French language neurons by reading Camus’s Le Mythe de Sisyphe which resulted in some adjustments and additions here.

 

A final note: I decided to add the last content update date in the legend at the bottom-left from now on.