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813Kant and the Conventionality of SimultaneityBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (5): 845-856. 2010.Kant’s three Analogies of Experience, in his Critique of Pure Reason, represent a highly condensed attempt to establish the metaphysical foundations of Newtonian physics. His strategy is to show that the organization of experience in terms of a world of enduring substances undergoing mutual causal interaction is a necessary condition of the temporal ordering even of one’s own subjective states, and thus of coherent experience itself. In his Third Analogy—an examination of the necessary condition…Read more
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31Parmenides' refutation of changeIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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52Ethics education and value prioritization among members of U.s. Hospital ethics committeesKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14 (4): 395-406. 2004.: Calls for ethics education for members of hospital ethics committees presume that the effects and benefits of such education are well-established. This is not the case. A review of the literature reveals that studies consistently have failed to uncover any significant effect of ethics education on the moral reasoning, moral competency, and/or moral development of medical professionals. The present paper discusses this negative result and describes the author's national study of the value prior…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |