More juvenilia: How Two Hunters Were Discouraged By an Apparition (short story, age 12).
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By Heaven, I’ll Know Thy Thoughts
I realise to my surprise that I never got around to posting my APS paper “Shakespeare, Godwin, Kafka, and the Political Problem of Other Minds.” Okay, now I have.
Here’s the abstract:
Colin McGinn maintains that Othello is about the problem of other minds. But Othello’s version of the problem – the inaccessibility of particular others in particular respects, not of other minds per se – might seem to lack the generality needed to count as philosophical. Drawing on examples from Othello, Caleb Williams, and Amerika, I argue that Othello’s problem, while distinct from the traditional problem of other minds, is indeed a genuine philosophical problem, but one produced and sustained by alterable features of human society (specifically, race, gender, and class distinctions) rather than by unalterable features of cognition as such.
And speaking of Shakespeare, check out this neglected masterpiece.
Danger Elsewhere, Part 3
The Danger Number site has been updated with Time to Kill.
Mourning Becomes Rombults
More juvenilia: Murder With a Twist (short story, age 12).
Swept Away
More juvenilia: My Night on Fire Island (short story, age 12).
Cloudwatching
More juvenilia: Unexpected Visitors (short story, age 12).