Summary of December, 2003
My blogging in December, 2003, focused mainly on Kuhnian paradigms, the Elin Oxenhielm case, patterns, and semiotics.
At the beginning of the month, I was still reading Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and posted two entries about that:
- Paradigms in Philosophy (of December 1)
- Recipes and Tacit Knowledge (of December 4)
I was also caught up with the Elin Oxenhielm case:
- Re: Elin Oxenhielm and Hilbert’s 16th Problem (of December 3)
- Elin Oxenhielm and Hilbert’s 16th Problem: The End? (of December 5)
- Clarification Re: Oxenhielm’s Paper (of December 5)
- Elin Oxenhielm Update (of December 6)
- Elin Oxenhielm Update (yes, another one; of December 6)
- Elin Oxenhielm in Dagens Nyheter (of December 7)
- Elin Oxenhielm Responds To Criticism (of December 8)
- On Elin Oxenhielm’s Response to Criticism and the Latest News Reports (of December 8)
- Elin Oxenhielm in Nature (of December 9)
- Last Post on Elin Oxenhielm (of December 9)
After Kuhn, I gave architect Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Speedreading a quick read through. See the following posts:
- The Timeless Way of Speedreading (of December 5)
- Currently Reading (of December 10)
- Christopher Alexander’s Patterns and Software Design (of December 10)
- Christopher Alexander’s Influence On Architects (of December 11)
- Christopher Alexander’s Patterns and Software Design (cont.) (of December 11)
- Intellectual Creation (of December 12)
The next book I picked up was Marshall Blonsky’s On Signs, a collection of essays on semiotics. See the following posts:
- Practices of Space (of December 20)
- Colors, Semiotics, and Constrained Universes of Expression (of December 22)
- Colors, Semiotics, and Constrained Universes of Expression (cont.) (of December 22)
- Defining and Then Questioning (of December 23)
Then came christmas and I began reading some Swedish books I got, which resulted in a drop of posts, but I ended the month, and the year, by putting together a list of the books I read during the year.