Department of Philosophistry

© Flash qFiasco
M.Litt. cantab


The Witteringswine Parodies:

1. Tractatus Fuselagico-Umbilicus
(The world is full of stuff. Believe it.)

2. Witteringswine's Philosophical Tribulations
(philosophy is the disease for which it should be the cure, but isn't)

Imperium (Heidegger parody)

Review of a nonexistent book (on Borges' New Refutation of Time)

Interview With God (no, not the smarmy one you've seen elsewhere)

"Getting blown to pieces is the occupational hazard of soldiering;
getting torn to pieces, that of philosophizing." --Flash qFiasco

Quotes from various thinkers

Wittgenstein Miscellany

The Subject in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
(influence of Schopenhauer's Will & Idea on Wittgenstein's early work)

Philosophical Investigations 1: Reconsidering a Misleading Picture
(let's start at the beginning...)

Philosophical Investigations 628: Knowing One's Way About
(on voluntary action, surprise, and why one should not ask why)

Review: Norman Malcolm, "Wittgenstein, A Religious Point of View?"

Review: James Klagge, ed., "Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions"

Reply to Martin Gardner on Mathematical Realism

How Do You Define Torture?
(on waterboarding and stress positions)

Is It Water?
(A note on a puzzle propounded by Hilary Putnam)

A Note On The Charges Against Socrates
Corrupting the Youth & Making the Weaker Case Seem the Stronger



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Some clever college student (so I suppose)
has done a graphic (above) to go with my
Tractatus spoof.
I like it. If I knew who it was, I'd give credit.

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