With the thesis now more or less done, the book on the Tractatus well underway, and (with the exception of one) all the material that didn't make it into the thesis turned into papers, submitted and partially accepted, I can turn some initial attention to my next project: a book and some spin-off papers on Theoretical Terms.
As I've written on my 'About' page over at academia.edu, this project is currently a gleam in my eye more than anything concrete. I've decided to blog about planning and progress of this project, for three reasons: first, it provides some motivation to go and get the project done, and second, it will help keeping some sort of structure to the project. Lastly, looking back, it may be interesting to see how such as (largish) project can be undertaken in the half-academic world. I say ha;f-academic, becuase with my recent job-change, it probably would no longer be a good idea to identify as post-academic. Perhaps (very perhaps) more about that later.
The working title of the project at the moment is something along the lines of 'Theoretical Terms - what theories tell us about nature', and its theme is to give an account and characterisation of the theoretical core of theories of physical science (while the aim is more or less general, it's just that I know most about the latter). I plan to start with Kant, and end with a computational characterisation of theories.
