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14Davidson's omniscient interpreterCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 23 (1): 93-99. 1990.
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14On the Interpreter’s Choices: Making Hermeneutic Relativity ExplicitDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17 (4): 453-478. 2018.In this essay, we explore the various aspects of hermeneutic relativity that have rarely been explicitly discussed. Our notion of “hermeneutic relativity” can be seen as an extension, with significant revisions, of Gadamer’s notion of Vorurteil. It refers to various choices and constraints of the interpreter, including beliefs concerning the best way of doing philosophy, what criteria are to be used to evaluate competing interpretations, and so on. The interpreter cannot completely eliminate the…Read more
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10Prehistory of the Philosophy of ChemistryPhilosophy of Chemistry 6. 2012.Throughout the history of philosophy, chemical concepts and theories have appeared in the work of philosophers, both as examples and as topics of discussion in their own right, and scientists themselves have often engaged with theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues that fall within what one would now recognize as philosophy of chemistry. This chapter offers a summary of the history of philosophy of chemistry since Kant, alongside a critical examination of why chemistry has been releg…Read more
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10First Contacts and the Common Behavior of Human BeingsInternational Studies in Philosophy 37 (4): 105-135. 2005.In this paper my aim is to shed light on the common behavior of human beings by looking at '' first contacts '': the situation where people with unshared histories first meet. The limits of the human life form are given by what is similar in the common behavior of human beings. But what is similar should not be understood as something that is biologically or psychologically or transcendentally shared by all human beings. What is similar is what human beings would recognize as similar in first or…Read more
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9International Society: What is the best we can do? The Multatuli Lecture 1999Ethical Perspectives 6 (3-4): 199-200. 1999.
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9Emotions as the fabric of forms of life: a cross-cultural perspectiveIn W. M. Wentworth & J. Ryan (eds.), Social perspectives on emotion, . 1994.status: published.
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8A multiculture of veridicalitiesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4): 481-482. 1998.Edelman's target article purports to be about veridical representations. I argue that it would be a mistake to think it has much to do with veridicality as normally understood.
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8Are There Concepts/Theories of Truth in Classical Chinese Philosophy?Journal of World Philosophies 1 (1): 159-161. 2016.The main argument of the book under review, 'Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy,' is to show that one can find a pluralistic theory of shí 實 in the Lunheng, “prepared” by a range of sources in the Warring States Period in China. This argument is not convincing because of small inconsistencies and major unsupported stipulations. Nevertheless the book contains many perceptive and suggestive remarks concerning the texts discussed.
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8Heidegger and the reversed order of science and technologyThe Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology 70. 2014.status: published.
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7The empirical stance and the colour warDivinatio: Studia Culturologica Series 20. 2004.status: published.
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6Form(s) of lifeIn Rudolf Haller & Klaus Puhl (eds.), Wittgenstein and the future of philosophy: a reassessment after 50 years: papers of the 24th international Wittgenstein symposium, . 2002.status: published.
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6Kant's legacy for the philosophy of chemistryIn Davis Baird, Eric Scerri & Lee McIntyre (eds.), Philosophy of chemistry: synthesis of a new discipline, . 2006.status: published.
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4First Contacts and the Common Behavior of Human BeingsInternational Studies in Philosophy 37 (4): 105-135. 2005.In this paper my aim is to shed light on the common behavior of human beings by looking at '' first contacts '': the situation where people with unshared histories first meet. The limits of the human life form are given by what is similar in the common behavior of human beings. But what is similar should not be understood as something that is biologically or psychologically or transcendentally shared by all human beings. What is similar is what human beings would recognize as similar in first or…Read more
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4František Wald's EmpiricismHyle: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry 19 (2). 2013.In this paper I present an ordered selection of citations from František Wald's publications and correspondence to give some idea of how he fitted in his times, how his views were received by contemporaries, and to illustrate his epistemological views. I highlight the originality of Wald's aim to develop a theory of chemistry on the basis of the concept of 'phase', instead of the concepts of compound and element. In chemistry there has been a vast increase in substances that are phases, which ma…Read more
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4Alexus McLeod, Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Approach, London, 2016Journal of World Philosophies 1 (1): 159-161. 2016.The main argument of the book under review, 'Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy,' is to show that one can find a pluralistic theory of shí 實 in the Lunheng, “prepared” by a range of sources in the Warring States Period in China. This argument is not convincing because of small inconsistencies and major unsupported stipulations. Nevertheless the book contains many perceptive and suggestive remarks concerning the texts discussed.
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3Filosofie van de wetenschappenD. Coutinho. 1988.Inleiding in de wetenschapsfilosofie, bedoeld voor filosofiestudenten.
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3De-essentialising Across the Board: No Need to Speak the Same LanguageNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 3 263-284. 2006.status: published.
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2Conventions In NamingPhilosophy Research Archives 8 243-277. 1982.Conventions in the use of names are discussed, particularly names of linguistic expressions. Also the reference of measure terms like ‘kg’ is discussed, and it is found analogous in important respects to expression names. Some new light is shed on the token-type distinction. Applications to versions of the liar paradox are shown. The use of quotation marks is critically examined.
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1Universities and appropriate developmentSINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 1. 1978.status: published.
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C.S. Peirce, Categories to Constantinople. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Peirce, Leuven 1997Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (1): 177-177. 2000.