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Sheldon Richmond

Boston University
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Boston University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1976
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics
General Philosophy of Science
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics
Jürgen Habermas
Theodor W. Adorno
Karl Popper
Thomas Kuhn
Nelson Goodman
Paul Feyerabend
Donald Davidson
Rudolf Carnap
History of Science
General Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Physical Science
Liberalism, Misc
Classical Liberalism
Phenomenology and Consciousness
Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Critical Theory, Misc
13 more
  • All publications (86)
  •  80
    When to Begin Writing
    Teaching Philosophy 3 (2): 181-183. 1979.
    Philosophy of Education
  •  54
    A Discussion of Some Theories of Pictorial Representation
    Dialectica 34 (3): 229-240. 1980.
    SummaryThe main question of this paper is — how do representational pictures convey information? I argue: 1) This question is approached from three opposing metaphysical frameworks. a) Monism answers this question by treating representational pictures as a species of cognitive symbolism. b) Polarism answers this question by sharply distinguishing between natural symbolism and languages; and, between symbolism and reality — representational pictures are natural symbols, mimics of reality. c) Plur…Read more
    SummaryThe main question of this paper is — how do representational pictures convey information? I argue: 1) This question is approached from three opposing metaphysical frameworks. a) Monism answers this question by treating representational pictures as a species of cognitive symbolism. b) Polarism answers this question by sharply distinguishing between natural symbolism and languages; and, between symbolism and reality — representational pictures are natural symbols, mimics of reality. c) Pluralism treats pictures as occupying a mid‐point between the scales of reality /illusion, knowledge/deception — representational pictures are quasi‐symbolic simulations. 2) The occurrence of institutionalized deception , the game of creating/having false visual hypotheses without the making of false intellectual hypotheses — undermines monism and polarism. Consequently, 3) the pluralist approach — we gain information on the intellectual plane by the use of perceptual deception — is the most promising for explaining how representational pictures convey information.RésuméLa question principale dont s'occupe cet article est »Comment les images représentatives transmettent de l'information?« Mon argumentation: 1) Cette question est abordée dans trois cadres métaphysiques opposés: a) le monisme répond à cette question en la traitant comme une variété de symbolisme cognitif; b) le polarisme y répond en distinguant strictement entre le symbolisme naturel et les langages et entre le symbolisme et la réalité— les images représentatives sont des symboles naturels, des imitations de la réalité; c) le pluralisme traite les images comme occupant un point médian entre les échelles »realité/illusion«, »connaissance/erreur«. Les images représentatives sont des simulations quasi‐symboliques. 2) L'existence de »tromperies institutionalisées« , le jeu consistant á créer/avoir des hypothèses visuelles fausses sans faire des hypothèses intellectuelles fausses, condamnent le monisme et le polarisme. Par conséquent 3) l'approche pluraliste constitue la voie la plus prometteuse pour expliquer comment les images représentatives apportent de I'information.ZusammenfassungDie Hauptfrage, die in dem vorliegenden Aufsatz behandelt wird, ist die, wie repräsentationale Bilder Information vermitteln. Meine Argumentation lautet: 1.) Die Frage wird von drei entgegengesetzten metaphysischen Standpunkten her angegangen. a) Der Monismus beantwortet die Frage, indem er repräsentationale Bilder als eine Art von kognitiven Symbolen behandelt. b) Der Polarismus beantwortet die Frage, indem er scharf zwischen natürlichen Symbolen und Sprachen einerseits und zwischen Symbolismus und Wirklichkeit anderseits unterscheidet . c) Der Pluralismus behandelt Bilder als ein Zwischending, das in der Mitte von Wirklichkeit Illusion der Wissen/Täuschung lokalisiert wird . 2) Das Vorkommen von institutionalisierter Täuschung , das Spiel, das darin besteht, falsche visuelle Hypothesen zu schaffedhaben ohne falsche intellektuelle Hypothesen zu machen untergraben die Position des Monismus und des Polarismus. Folglich ist 3.) der pluralistische Standpunkt wonach wir auf intellektueller Ebene durch den Gebrauch von Wahrnehmungstäuschung Information gewinnen, der vielversprechenste für die Erklärung, wie repräsentationale Bilder Information vermitteln
    Depiction
  •  102
    Spinoza’s critique of religion and its heirs: Marx, Benjamin, and Adorno (review)
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (1): 211-215. 2017.
    20th Century Continental Philosophy
  •  55
    Maimonides: Life and Thought By Moshe Halbertal Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2014, pp. ix + 385, HB, $35/€24.95 ISBN: 9780691158518 (review)
    Philosophy 90 (2): 336-341. 2015.
  •  40
    Is there Progress in Art?
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 726-729. 1988.
  •  55
    Donald Davidson: Life and Words Edited by Maria Baghramian Routledge, 2013, xx +291 pp. Paperback $44.95 ISBN: 978-0-415-72192-9 Hardback $145.00 ISBN: 978-0-415-52880-1 (review)
    Philosophy 89 (4): 643-649. 2014.
  •  97
    The View from Within: Normativity and the Limits of Self-Criticism by Menachem Fisch and Yitzhak Benbaji (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 40 (3): 50-52. 2013.
    Normativity, Misc
  •  27
    Robert C. Holub, Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism. Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 36 (3): 112-114. 2016.
    European Philosophy
  • Karl Popper, Knowledge and The Body-Mind Problem: In defence of interaction Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 15 (3): 197-199. 1995.
    Metaphysics of MindMind-Body Problem, General
  •  18
    How Can the Computer Aid Philosophy?
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 5 550-552. 1988.
  •  58
    Why the world does not exist Markus Gabriel (translated by Gregory S. moss) malden, ma: Polity press, 2015; VI + 239 pp.; $28.00 (review)
    Dialogue 55 (3). 2016.
  •  58
    A world without why Raymond Geuss princeton: Princeton university press, 2014; 288 pp.; $39.50 (review)
    Dialogue 56 (4): 811-812. 2017.
  •  75
    Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. By Nick Bostrom. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, pp. xvi+328. Hardcover: $29.95/ £18.99. ISBN: 9780199678112 (review)
    Philosophy 91 (1): 125-130. 2016.
  •  33
    Michael Mack. German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 36 (6): 267-269. 2016.
    German Idealism
  •  72
    Jeffrey A. Barrett and Peter Byrne, eds., The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Collected Works 1955-1980. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 35 (3): 127-129. 2015.
    Spinoza’s metaphysics has returned in the work of Hugh Everett as physics— as a complete and consistent interpretation of Quantum Mechanics that resolves the traditional puzzles of the standard interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    Everett Interpretation
  •  72
    David Novak, Zionism and Judaism:A New Theory. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 35 (5): 278-280. 2015.
    Judaism
  •  96
    Vasso Kindi and Arabatzis, eds. , Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited . Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 33 (3). 2013.
    Nature of Science
  •  60
    Review symposium : Man= the rational hunter: Some comments on the book by Tiger and fox, the imperial animal (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 4 (2): 279-291. 1974.
    Philosophy of Social Science
  •  169
    Karl Popper, The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 32 (5): 418-420. 2012.
    Popper: Epistemology
  •  75
    Hilary Putnam , Philosophy in An Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism . Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 33 (1): 67-69. 2013.
  • What we can learn from Polanyi about the computational theory of mind?
    Appraisal 5. 2004.
    Computationalism in Cognitive Science
  •  37
    Ball, Philip., Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
    Review of Metaphysics 67 (1): 149-150. 2013.
    Metaphysics and Epistemology
  •  42
    Truth (review)
    Tradition and Discovery 30 (2): 41-43. 2003.
    Philosophy of ReligionTheories of Truth, Misc
  •  52
    On making sense: Some comments on Polanyi's and Prosch's meaning (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (2): 209-219. 1979.
    Philosophy of Social Science
  •  75
    Joseph Agassi, The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle. Heidelberg, New York and London: Springer, 2013. Pp. xvii+315. ISBN 978-94-007-5350-1. £90.00 (review)
    British Journal for the History of Science 47 (3): 570-572. 2014.
    Francis Bacon
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    Ellen Rose , On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Century . Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 35 (1): 38-40. 2015.
    20th Century Continental PhilosophyPoststructuralism
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