Arbitrary Marks

Why "Arbitrary Marks"?

"It would never have occurred to us to think that we felt the influence of letters on us when reading, if we had not compared the case of the letters to that of arbitrary marks." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm C. Malcolm Keating, a graduate student in the philosophy department at UT - Austin. This site includes links to my CV, a short bio and description of academic interests, some papers and my blog.

Feel free to send me email at first initial [dot] middle name [dot] last name [at] gmail [dot] com

Image: Indian Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna reading the scriptures that the Buddha, according to legend, sealed and left with sea serpents to protect until someone suitable to read them was born.