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| This is John's side of the page (until Belle gets thoughtful.) He is an assistant professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. This is stuff in progress; stuff he hopes to publish; stuff he's published that's obstinatively unavailable on-line; and his dissertation. Everything is © John Holbo. Criticism, comments, serious offers of publication where applicacable...are too much to be expected. (sigh) |
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| Turned into "On Trilling And Zizek", forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature. A very good polemical treatment of Zizek's bad book, On Belief. Link gives you the galleys (PDF; they leave the haceks off Zizek's name (those little diacritic hats Slovenians like to wear); it also contains three or four typos. | |
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| "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Theory for Life". It's under consideration at Arion. (This is the penultimate draft to date.) | |
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| "Moral Dilemmas and the Logic of Obligation" was published in the American Philosophical Quarterly. (The pdf is a pre-print proof; a few typos. So: expect a few typos.) Some people think it would be a contradiction - a true, logical contradiction - to maintain that true moral dilemmas might be possible. My essay says: not so. I think the paper is both elegant and clever. All the same, I cannot shake the feeling that the whole exercise is a bit . . . well, scholastic. The edges of the problem (when limned by the formal language of deontic logic) are very satisfyingly sharp, and crinkly (like the fjords in Hitchhiker's Guide, I think it was). Perhaps that is because the sharp, crinkly edges are artificial. It is very hard to say. I cannot. |
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| "Prolegomena to Wittgenstein's Tractatus" was submitted the the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999; and I got my Ph.D; and the rest is history - even if hardly anyone has noticed, really. (Thank you, Hans, Bert, and Tony, for advice and acceptance of my ways and means - the means, in particular..) Rereading three years on, I have an uncanny experience: the thing is. . . (what's the word?) not bad! Most dissertations, the wise of all ages and nations agree, are not good. Your average Ph.D. dissertation has the utility and appeal of an X-Ray image of a half-digested meal. Because that's what it is. Well, I won't rub it in. I really ought to see about getting it published. I mean, yeah, it could do to lose a few pounds. But still. (What do you think?) The bibliography tells you what the two-letter abbreviations of Wittgenstein's major texts used throughout stand for. |
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| preface | chapter 8 |
| chapter 1 | chapter 9 |
| chapter 2 | chapter 10 |
| chapter 3 | chapter 11 |
| chapter 4 | chapter 12 |
| chapter 5 | chapter 13 |
| chapter 6 | chapter 14 |
| chapter 7 | chapter 15 |
| bibliography | |
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| This is Belle's side of the page (until John gets creative.) She is. . . well, I'm John. I'll let her decide for herself who and what she is. Isn't that the best policy? |
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| Are you a powerful, glamorous, well-heeled publisher of detective novels? Or maybe you like reading that stuff? Yes? Then you've come to the right place. Here are three sample chapters from Belle's novel in process. (So maybe, if you aren't one of those publishers, you'll find it annoying to start a book that as yet has no ending. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!) It's sort of a cerebral, Philip K. Dick-meets Ross MacDonald-fights Fu Manchu-type mix-it-up-type-novel. (But what do I know? See above. I'll let Belle describe it herself, when she gets around to it.) Really sophisticated stuff, I swear. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll wish it had an ending! |
| chapter 1 (pdf) |
| chapter 2 (pdf) |
| chapter 3 (pdf) |
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| Maybe later; kinda personal. |
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