- A major project on Jackendoffian/Chomskyan semantic internalism, with reference to Russell's Theory of Descriptions, a discussion of the (disturbing) philosophy of the proposition (it's really not clear that what propositions are (I find this highly disturbing)), and a lengthy disquisition on truth (weighing up truth minimalism and Crispin Wright's form of pluralism). (Something along these lines will be my philosophy honour's thesis.)
- Part II of II of my 'Repudiating Anti-Democracy' series: a highly favourable summary of Gerry Mackie's Democracy Defended .
- A long and weighty essay on Lewis' brilliant book On the Plurality of Worlds, in which I defend the view (following Alastair Wilson) that, even though Lewis seriously undermines 'ersatzist' projects, modern physics has opened up a more plausible 'naturalisation of modality'
- Some long essay on the best 'species concepts', and Ellen Clarke's and Peter Godfrey Smith's accounts of "biological individuality", and how Structural Realism can help us understand the ontology of the macroscopic (persistent macroscopic individuals are emergent yet projectible patterns in fundamental physics, like the emergent patterns in Conway's Game of Life, and help us identify important dynamics without colossal computations)
- Two detailed recent-history timelines based on information in Michael Hudson's Killing the Host: a timeline of what happened in the White House after the GFC, and the policies that were taken; and a timeline of the relations between the EU and Greece since the crisis
- Some kind of meta-analysis of the fascinating research into plant perception and computation, as popularised in Peter Wohlleben's recent book The Hidden Life of Trees.
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