What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
(Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1975, 10)
That’s basically all that needs to be said re all kinds of ›Realisms‹ that popped up in the history of philosophy―from ›ontological‹/Platonist realism via the medieval Universalienstreit to the so-called ›Structural Realisms‹ which are so en vogue today, but only push the ontological bump in the rug around.
- Thomas Kupka
- Lawyer
- Philosopher of Law/Legal Theorist
- Philosopher of Science of a sort (since 2012)
- Proprietary Equities & Derivatives Trader (since 03/2017)
- Develop a Causal Semantics for Science; continuing my ›Philosophie der Wissenschaftskunst‹ of 2013.
- Later (perhaps much later) develop a Causal Semantics for Law & Morals; continuing my ›Verfassungsnominalismus/Constitutional Nominalism‹ of 2011.
- Cooperate with the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
- Edit Adolf Grünbaum's Collected Works (Oxford University Press), founding director (1960-78) of the Center just mentioned.
- Well, and trade equities & derivatives.
Research Grants
- 2015-2017: ›Harvey & Leslie Wagner Foundation‹, $ 60,000, via the University of Pittsburgh, for a Causal Semantics for Science.
- 2012-2015: ›Harvey & Leslie Wagner Foundation‹, $ 60,000, via the University of Pittsburgh, for the edition of Adolf Grünbaum's Collected Works, OUP 2013 ff. (the Wagner Foundation has also subsidized the Pittsburgh PoS Center).
- I'm in Pittsburgh August 5-12, 2017
- I'll be in Pittsburgh/PA, some time in June 2017
- I'll be in Pittsburgh/PA, some time October/November 2016
- I am in Pittsburgh/PA, May 10-31, 2015.
I'm reading philosophy of science & mathematical logic since 2012 about which I tweet at times: @Thomas_Kupka [phil].
I use a different handle for all things financial markets: @ThomasKupka1 [fin].
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