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22A Jewish Reading of Trinity, Time and the Church: A Response to the Theology of Robert W. JensonModern Theology 19 (3): 419-427. 2000.
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5Re‐socializing Scholars of Religious, Theological, and Theo‐Philosophical InquiryModern Theology 29 (4): 201-219. 2013.
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7Peirce’s Philosophy of ReligionNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 18 (56): 16-18. 1990.
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190Behind the Mechitsa: Reflections on The Rules of Textual ReasoningJournal of Textual Reasoning 1 (1). 2002.After twelve years of productive work, the Society for Textual Reasoning has reason to reflect on the rules of reasoning it has nurtured and tested but has not yet adopted, self-consciously, as the rules of its textual reasoning . This essay illustrates some ways of reflecting on these rules. The first section of the essay presents a brief history of STR. The following section, the focal section of the essay, illustrates the rules of TR as displayed in a recent internet discussion sponsored by t…Read more
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139A Scriptural Pragmatism: : Jewish Philosophy's Conception of TruthInternational Philosophical Quarterly 26 (2): 131-135. 1986.In HEBREW SCRIPTURES, in rabbinic literature and for most Jewish thinkers, "truth" (emet) is a character of personal relationships. Truth is fidelity to one's word, keeping promises, saying with the lips what one says in one's heart, bearing witness to what one has seen. Truth is the bond of trust between persons and between God and Humanity. In Western philosophic tradition, however, truth is a character of the claims people make about the world they experience: the correspondence b…Read more
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18Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead, and HartshorneState University of New York Press. 1992.Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Pragmatic Cataphasis: Plenitude and Caution in Morning PrayerJournal of Textual Reasoning 5 (1). 2007.
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113A propos de l'actualité de Charles PeirceRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 91 (4). 1986.Des lecteurs dune récente livraison de Monist, The Relevance of Charles Peirce, pourraient chercher l'actualité de Peirce chez des philosophes contemporains influencés par lui. J'essaie de montrer que Peirce est actuel parce que son apport principal, le pragmatisme, se rattache profondément à des sujets qui nous sont familiers. Formé dans la tradition cartésienne et kantienne de l'epistemologie, l'oeuvre de Peirce intéresse les héritiers de cette tradition.Cependant, son pragmatisme fait apparaî…Read more
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14This major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought.
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1Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (1): 103-103. 1993.
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22Contemporary Jewish Philosophies (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 27 (2): 212-214. 1987.
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224Torah, language and philosophy: A jewish critiqueInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (3). 1985.Modern philosophy's fascination with language - for the last century, its obsession- may illustrate the axiom that we love to talk about what we desire and we desire what we don't have. From the perspective of traditional Judaism, philosophic obsession with language reflects the modern philosopher's dislocation from those speech communities in which, alone, language has meaning. Natural speech communities, meaning those whose origins are either unknown or referred to an in…Read more
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3Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues In Postmodern Jewish PhilosophyWestview Press. 1998.Three leading Jewish philosophers explore what it means to participate in post modern Jewish philosophy. They contemplate where Judaism has been, the relevance of age-old Biblical traditions, and the direction in which Judaism is headed in the 21st century.
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192Reparative reasoning: From Peirce's pragmatism to Augustine's scriptural semioticModern Theology 25 (2): 187-215. 2009.This is a genealogical study that traces a “broadly Cartesian” pattern of argumentation: from Augustine’s scriptural semiotic to the “narrowly Cartesian” practice of foundationalism to Charles Peirce’s pragmatic and reparative semiotic. The essay argues (1) that Augustine transformed Stoic logic into a scriptural semiotic; (2) that this semiotic breeds both Cartesian foundationalism and the pragmatic semiotic that repairs it; (3) that Peirce’s semiotic displays the latter. In sum, Augustine’s in…Read more
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12Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of ScriptureCambridge University Press. 1998.This is the first study of Charles Peirce's philosophy as a form of writing and the first study of his pragmatic writings as a critique of the modern attempt to change society by writing philosophy. According to Ochs, Peirce concluded that his own pragmatism displayed the errors of modernity, attempting to recreate rather than repair modern philosophy. His self-critique - which he called pragmaticism - refashions pragmatism as what Ochs calls a 'pragmatic method of reading': a method of, first, …Read more
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159From Phenomenology to Scripture: A General ResponseModern Theology 16 (3): 341-345. 2000.This is a response to a Symposium on Phenomenology and Scripture. In examining a move from phenomenology to scripture, this symposium does not address all possible readers; it addresses a specific readership, for a specific reason, and within the framework of specific assumptions. By way of response, I want first to identify a few features of what I take to be the symposium’s specific address or context. Then, I will comment on what messages I believe the authors have delivered to this context. …Read more
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124A Pragmatic Method of Reading Confused Philosophic Texts: The Case of Peirce's "Illustrations"Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (3). 1989.A Pragmatic Method of Reading Confused Philosophic Texts: The Case of Peirce's "Illustrations" In 1878, Charles Peirce introduced a method for making confused ideas clear. In this essay, I put Peirce's method to work as a method for making confused writing clear, in particular, for clarifying the meaning of confused philosophic arguments as they appear in philosophic essays. In Section I, I introduce the method as a Pragmatic Method of Reading …Read more
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