Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Website - Writings

Writings

Philosophy, History & Politics

(24/03/2008) The Newtonian Synthesis: Natural Philosophy and Natural Theology in Enlightenment England
(13/03/2008) Climate and Political Reform: Helvétius and National Character
(09/03/2008) Political Anglomania: Voltaire, Montesquieu and England's Political System
(07/12/2007) Hume's Moral Sense Theory and the Spectre of Relativism
(04/12/2007) The Philosophes and the Argument from Design
(23/11/2007) Joseph de Maistre: An Unusual Reactionary
(29/10/2007) On the Absurdity and Redundancy of Purportedly Divine Written Sources
(08/02/2007) Observability and Constructive Empiricism
(12/01/2007) The Reception of De Revolutionibus
(21/10/2006) On "Pro-Life" Libertarianism
(04/10/2006) On Methodological Individualism
(08/05/2006) Simplicity as Theoretical Virtue BA thesis
(22/02/2006) Concerning Objections to a Causal Theory of Action
(16/12/2005) Peirce's Hypothesis of Reality
(23/12/2005) On the purported "Keynesian" decline of Britain
(01/11/2005) Strawson's Critique of the Russellian Theory of Descriptions
(04/10/2005) Defects of the Free Market
(29/04/2005) Nýfrjálshyggja eða bara frjálshyggja?
(24/03/2005) On Emulating the Brain
(08/03/2005) Röksemdafærslur nýfrjálshyggjumanna hraktar
(06/02/2005) The Futility of Eudaimonian Ethics
(28/01/2005) Svar við nýfrjálshyggjumanni

Bertrand Russell audio recordings
Karl Popper audio recordings

Translations

"Af hverju ég er ekki kristinn" e. Bertrand Russell (1929)

Transcripts & Other Material

Philosophy and Politics by Alfred Jules Ayer
On Simple Theories of a Complex World by Willard Van Orman Quine
The Myth of Occam's Razor by W. M. Thorburn (1918)
De l'Esprit by Claude Adrien Hélvetius

Computer & Web Development

Reviews

Schindler's List, or How I Learned To Stop Profiteering And Love The Jews