Category Archives: Bibliographies

Carlos Santiago Nino: a bibliography

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Carlos Nino was a publicly engaged intellectual of rare integrity and brilliance. In his dedication to human rights, the rule of law, and constitutional legitimacy he combined passion with wisdom and analytic clarity. His inexhaustible courage in fighting to restore decency to his nation provides a model for others working in the wake of dictatorship. We are fortunate to have in his writings a record of his remarkable thought and experience.
Thomas Nagel

I started compiling this bibliography back when I was an undergraduate student at the university of Buenos Aires, and continued to work on it intermittently over the next few years. In 2007, my hard drive was damaged in an accident and most of the data stored in it was lost.  I had since then assumed that the document containing the bibliography was among the affected files. A week ago, however, I stumbled upon a copy of it.  Thinking that there might be sufficient interest in this information among legal scholars and other academics, I spent a few hours over the following days updating the references and formatting the bibliography for online publication.  I would like to thank the staff at various institutions whose libraries I consulted in the course of preparing this document, in particular Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas, University of Oxford (Bodleian Law Library), Balliol College and University of Toronto (Robarts Library).

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John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart: a bibliography

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If we compare McTaggart with the other commentators on Hegel we must admit that he has at least produced an extremely lively and fascinating rabbit from the Hegelian hat, whilst they have produced nothing but consumptive and gibbering chimeras. And we shall admire his resource and dexterity all the more when we reflect that the rabbit was, in all probability, never inside the hat, whilst the chimeras perhaps were.

C. D. Broad

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Earning to give: an annotated bibliography

A while ago, I did a quick survey of the literature on earning to give—the pursuit of a high-earning career with the express purpose of donating a large portion of one’s earnings to high-impact charities. Given the recent interest in the topic, I thought I should turn those notes into a proper bibliography. If I’m missing anything, please let me know.

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Why does the world exist? – A bibliography

That anything should exist at all does seem to me a matter for the deepest awe.

J. J. C. Smart

Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern dass sie ist.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The most important question of all is also one of the most neglected.  The list below includes what are, to the best of my knowledge, the only scholarly writings in the contemporary literature that directly address the question of why the universe exists. (That question includes two sub-questions, ‘Why is there anything at all?’ and ‘Why does this particular world exist, rather than some other’, which we may call the “general” and the “special” ultimate questions of existence, respectively.) Note that this excludes non-scholarly writings (such as Jim Holt’s Why does the world exist?); writings that address the question indirectly (such as those found in certain areas within physical cosmology and the philosophy of religion); and writings too removed from the present (published before, say, 1850, such as Leibniz’s De rerum originatione radicali). My personal recommendations are boldfaced.

If you think I’m missing something, please let me know.

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California Proposition 2: a bibliography

This bibliography was prepared for a research project on California Proposition 2 that I undertook a while ago, while volunteering for Effective Animal Activism. As I became increasingly busy with many other activities, the project was eventually put on hold. I hope to resume work at some point in the future; in the meantime, I thought I should at least make this material public, in the hope that it might inspire others to do research in this and related areas.

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Wild animal welfare: a bibliography

This bibliography is primarily based on Oscar Horta’s Publications in English on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature (for and against), Daniel Dorado’s Ethical interventions in the wild: an annotated bibliography, and the research that Aron Vallinder and I did for a paper on wild animal welfare that we once planned to write. If you know of relevant material not included in the list below, please let me know.

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C. D. Broad: a bibliography

Socius, lector, thesaurarii iunioris inter belli
angustias uice functus, moralis philosophiae in
academia professor disciplinae illius alias quoque
partes singulari acumine et diligentia lucidissime
tractauit. Non minus se ipsum quam alios nouerat.
In sermone plus salis quam fellis habuit. Sueciae
amorem prae se tulit. Huic collegio studuit opera
consiliis testamento sustinendo. Vita decessit
A.S.mcmlxxi suae aetatis lxxxiv

 

This bibliography is based on (1) C. Lewy’s ‘Writings of C. D. Broad, to the end of July 1959’, in Paul A. Schilpp (ed.) The philosophy of C. D. Broad, New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1959, pp. 833–852; (2) Andrew Chrucky’s Works by C. D. Broad; and (3) my own research online and at various British libraries.  It is my best attempt to make Broad’s writings freely available on the web. Corrections and additions are welcome.

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