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I read some history of philosophy of law and added positivists like John Austin, Hans Kelsen, and HLA Hart, along with sentences on natural law by Augustine and Aquinas, as a start. I plan to work on others including Fuller, Finnis, Dworkin, and Raz.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n I realized that I didn\u2019t have much content regarding pragmatic arguments for religious faith, so I added a first version of Blaise Pascal and some related ideas by Hume and Mill.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I added many sentences and connections related to inequality after reading Harry Frankfurt\u2019s \u201cOn Inequality\u201d and Tim Scanlon\u2019s \u201cThe Diversity of Objections to Inequality\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Adding Donna Haraway also led to many updates on Sandra Harding who passed in March 2025.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When Susan Haack passed in March 2026, I took time to read some of her work and add her. Her 2020 memoir \u201cNot One of the Boys: Memoir of an Academic Misfit\u201d where she outlines her career and ideas was a nice guide for me.<\/p>\n When I read her memoir, I empathized with the outsider position and found some of her jabs funny, but it felt too bitter overall. Her targets include Ladyman, Ross, Rosenberg, Harding, Dennett, and:<\/p>\n One of those young men, by the way, was Graham Priest, whom I taught logic from the propositional calculus through G\u00f6del\u2019s theorem\u2014though I\u2019m glad to say that it was not I, but Richard Routley, who was responsible for his later diversion into soi-disant \u201cdialethic logic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, Graham Priest is one of those philosophers whose attitude and humor I adore, so adding him in this update was a pleasure. (He responded \u201cYou have me right\u201d when I emailed him to show my summary, so it\u2019s verified!)<\/p>\n I normally add only negative connections between sentences belonging to the same philosopher, for those specific cases where they change their mind about a subject, have different periods (e.g. Wittgenstein), etc. Priest has a unique feature in this regard: a positive-negative self-connection, because \u201cdialetheism is itself a dialetheia\u201d. Logic is fun! <\/p>\n I\u2019m glad I also spent time on Nietzsche (Genealogy of Morals<\/i>) and Heidegger (Being and Time<\/i>; Off the Beaten Track<\/i>) and arrived at more satisfactory summaries. (I\u2019m grateful to Jeff Yoshimi who generously shared his lecture notes on Heidegger with me.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.denizcemonduygu.com\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/law.png\")
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