[Textop-en-phil] Welcome, and first steps for pilot project

[Diane Henderson, PhD]

Larry and all,

I have no problems using the wiki for this pilot project as I am unaware 
of any other currently existing software that would allow this to 
smoothly flow along in an early stage such as this.

I must say that the Leviathan is not a book I would have chosen as a 
first attempt - I would prefer Locke's  "Essay Concerning Human 
Understanding".  Upon reading your outline of the Leviathan, I 
immediately saw the potential for references indicating precursors of 
Hobbes' thought which inevitably leads to the question of limiting the 
pilot, at least, to English language works.  It's very, very difficult 
to cover philosophical ideas if we limit ourselves to those works 
originally published in English - or is this not what you intended by 
the phraseology.

As far as my own expertise, my dissertation research was on the concept 
of causality as it has been used in philosophy, the law and in science 
and I focused on a very specific problem - that of toxic torts.  Since 
receiving the PhD in 1999, I have spent most of my time reading and 
continuing research in the field of causality.

I will be pleased to help where I can.

Diane Henderson
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL


Larry Sanger wrote:
> All,
>
> A hearty welcome to the new folks!
>
> Please respond to this mail--five questions below, to which I would like
> your answers.
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