Fintan Mallory

I wrote a new paper. It reconstructs the argument behind Marx’s discussion of the value form in the first chapter of Capital. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think Marx’s analysis is interesting and somehow still under-appreciated. It gives the best example of how dialectical methods of abstraction can be applied to material categories. But largely, I just want to help people past that section to the rest of the book.

I wrote a new paper. It reconstructs the argument behind Marx’s discussion of the value form in the first chapter of Capital. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Abstraction principles show how equivalence relations ground equivalence classes. The section on the value form is Marx’s argument that ‘X commodity A = Y commodity B’ is such an equivalence.

I wrote a new paper. It reconstructs the argument behind Marx’s discussion of the value form in the first chapter of Capital. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

TLDR: The reason it’s so tedious and unreadable is because Marx is doing analytic philosophy!

I wrote a new paper. It reconstructs the argument behind Marx’s discussion of the value form in the first chapter of Capital. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Found a folder of papers I’d printed and annotated in grad school and it feels like a weird glimpse into another person’s life.

A billion years ago, I wrote a paper arguing that it can be helpful to view artificial neural networks as stochastic measuring devices. It has come officially out: academic.oup.com/book/63302/c...

There are many other fun-looking papers in this collection: academic.oup.com/book/63302

Looking forward to teaching this paper this year: philpapers.org/archive/MANB...

I’ve been thinking a lot about this article in which a native Irish speaker describes the difficulties negotiating interactions with strangers, working out what language to greet them in, how to handle mixed-language situations:

It's exclusionary of bilingual speakers of a minority language not to default to the dominant language in the presence of monoglot speakers. It is *far worse* of speakers of the dominant language to expect them to do so. This is seldom appreciated and the entitlement involved needs to be stigmatised

I’ve been thinking a lot about this article in which a native Irish speaker describes the difficulties negotiating interactions with strangers, working out what language to greet them in, how to handle mixed-language situations:

I’ve seen this countless times. You’ll have four people speaking Irish, an English-speaking monoglot enters the room, everyone defaults to English out of politeness. The Irish language loses another communal space.

I really hope the link is working by tomorrow morning. I can't live like this any longer. There's coffee everywhere.

Yes, exactly!

We've known for less than a century that our galaxy is only one of hundreds of millions. It’s pretty impressive how we managed to fit this knowledge within our culture with ease.

We've known for less than a century that our galaxy is only one of hundreds of millions. It’s pretty impressive how we managed to fit this knowledge within our culture with ease.

It’s not unprecedented for an Irish guy to show up in Norway, insist that he was a secret son of the previous king, and successfully seize power: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_...

The Irish national epic is about how you shouldn’t steal a cow from an Ulsterman and long-story-short Magnus Olafsson is now buried outside Downpatrick in Co. Down, the last Norwegian king to die abroad on a raid.

It’s not unprecedented for an Irish guy to show up in Norway, insist that he was a secret son of the previous king, and successfully seize power: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_...

The new edition of Kurt Gödel’s Philosophical Notebooks is full of useful advice.

I’m at the European Congress of Analytic Philosophy in Madrid. If anyone wants to make awkward conference small-talk while I work to suppress my natural flight instinct, I’ll be the guy that looks like me.

Went to a seminar on metasemantics and metametasemantics and, well, I just love this stuff. It’s just so much fun to think about.

This is how I felt about opera.