{"id":383,"date":"2018-01-24T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=383"},"modified":"2018-01-24T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:18:46","slug":"some-philosophy-texts-on-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/01\/24\/some-philosophy-texts-on-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Some philosophy texts on github"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve prepared a number of different texts to give to my own students. For example: cleaned up electronic versions of Peirce&#8217;s &#8220;Fixation of Belief&#8221; and Berkeley&#8217;s <em>Principles<\/em>. I&#8217;ve had occasional thoughts about sharing them, but didn&#8217;t have a sensible platform for doing so.<span id='easy-footnote-1-383' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/01\/24\/some-philosophy-texts-on-github\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-383' title='I didn&amp;#8217;t want to just dump them in a big jumble on my website. They didn&amp;#8217;t belong on the institutional archive, because I didn&amp;#8217;t write them. And that&amp;#8217;s about as much thought as I put into it.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In making the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/12\/29\/forall-x-v1-4\/\">update to forall x<\/a>, I starting using github. It&#8217;s primarily a platform for writing software and maintaining code, but it is also well suited for hosting LaTeX documents. Keeping track of which version I used in which semester is a mess that git cleans up, and it&#8217;s no extra effort to share the files.<\/p>\n<p>So I created three github repositories today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/pragmatism\">pragmatism<\/a>: In addition to Peirce and James, this includes some Emerson.<span id='easy-footnote-2-383' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/01\/24\/some-philosophy-texts-on-github\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-383' title='It&amp;#8217;s not that I think Emerson is a pragmatist especially, but just that I didn&amp;#8217;t want a separate repository for\u00a0&lt;em&gt;transcendentalists&lt;\/em&gt;.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I may add more in the course of this semester.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/early-modern\">early-modern<\/a>: I prepared Hume&#8217;s first <em>Enquiry<\/em> and Berkeley&#8217;s <em>Principles<\/em> for student use years ago. Both are nicely formatted complete books.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/understanding-science\">understanding-science<\/a>: I also added a repository for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/05\/05\/open-notes-on-inference\/\">notes on inference<\/a> that I posted last year. I still mean to add to those, so I might as well set it up now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The material in 1 and 2 is mostly in the public domain. Where I&#8217;ve written something, I offer it under an open license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve prepared a number of different texts to give to my own students. For example: cleaned up electronic versions of Peirce&#8217;s &#8220;Fixation of Belief&#8221; and Berkeley&#8217;s Principles. I&#8217;ve had occasional thoughts about sharing them, but didn&#8217;t have a sensible platform for doing so. In making the most recent update to forall x, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/01\/24\/some-philosophy-texts-on-github\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some philosophy texts on github&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,13],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-open-access","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-6b","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}