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61Self-reference: reflections on reflexivity (edited book)Springer. 1987.From the Editor’s Introduction: THE INTERNAL LIMITATIONS OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING We carry, unavoidably, the limits of our understanding with us. We are perpetually confined within the horizons of our conceptual structure. When this structure grows or expands, the breadth of our comprehensions enlarges, but we are forever barred from the wished-for glimpse beyond its boundaries, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much credence we invest in the substance of our learning and mist of speculatio…Read more
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48The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human EvilCharles C. Thomas. 2005.The Pathology of Man is the first comprehensive study of the psychology and epistemology of human evil, long urged by leading psychiatrists and psychologists, including Freud, Jung, Menninger, Fromm, and Peck. The book breaks new ground by offering a clear, empirically based, and theoretically sound understanding of human evil as a widespread, real, non-metaphorical pathology. With deliberate and thorough scholarship the author proposes a new framework-relative theory of disease and justifies th…Read more
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36Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. Volume 1: Theoretical Foundations. Volume 2: Epistemic and Social Applications. Edited by C. A. Hooker, J. J. Leach, and E. F. McClennen (review)Modern Schoolman 57 (2): 178-178. 1980.A review and discussion of C. A. Hooker, J. J. Leach, and E. F. McClennen's edited volumes, Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. Volume 1: Theoretical Foundations. Volume 2: Epistemic and Social Applications.
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31"Explanation," ed. Stephan Körner (review)Modern Schoolman 54 (4): 413-414. 1977.A brief review and discussion of Stephan Körner's "Explanation."
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31Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincare. By Roberto Torretti (review)Modern Schoolman 58 (2): 136-136. 1981.A review of Roberto Torretti's book, "Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincare."
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26"Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science," ed. Robert E. Butts and Jaakko Hintikka (review)Modern Schoolman 56 (3): 291-292. 1979.A review and discussion of Robert E. Butts and Jaakko Hintikka's edited collection "Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science."
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20"Logic: Depth Grammar of Rationality," by Patrick K. Bastable (review)Modern Schoolman 54 (4): 401-402. 1977.
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14"Explanation," ed. Stephan Körner (review)Modern Schoolman 54 (4): 413-414. 1977.This volume brings together four papers by Peter Achinstein, Peter Geach, Wesley Salmon, and J. L. Mackie. Achinstein's paper Is "The Object of Explanation"; Geach's is "Teleological Explanation"; Salmon's is "Theoretical Explanation"; and Mackie's is "Ideological Explanation." /// This review summarizes each author's claims.
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