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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)
  •  72
    Is Fallibilism Mistaken?
    Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science 4 182-189. 2018.
    Book review: Menachem Fisch, Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency.
  •  44
    Book Reviews : Raphael Sassower, Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience. Routledge Kegan Paul, New York, 1995. $52.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (4): 545-551. 1997.
    Philosophy of Social Science
  •  42
    Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking II, Trans. Ciaran Cronin. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 38 (2): 60-62. 2018.
  •  72
    The Collapse and Afterlife of Cybernetics (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 48 (3): 333-340. 2018.
    Philosophy of Social ScienceTranshumanism
  •  44
    How to Get to No, or Arguing for the Sake of Truth (review)
    Science & Education 26 (6): 735-738. 2017.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  31
    Everyone Can Understand Quantum Mechanics-Really?
    Science & Education 26 (7): 1079-1083. 2017.
  •  52
    Beg to Differ: The Logic of Disputes and Argumentation By Joseph Agassi and Abraham Meidan Springer 2016, pp. vi + 138, $19.99 / £11.99 ISBN 978-3-319-33306-9 ISBN 978-3-319-33307-6 (review)
    Philosophy 93 (1): 141-150. 2018.
  •  90
    Book Review: Why Things Matter to People: Science, Values and Ethical Life (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (6): 837-839. 2014.
    Philosophy of EconomicsScience and Values
  •  62
    Book Review: Understanding the Tacit by Stephen P. Turner (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (4-5): 528-533. 2015.
    Philosophy of Social Science
  •  54
    How to Alleviate the Cultural Obstacles to Dialogue
    Dialogue and Universalism 27 (4): 87-98. 2017.
    How do we alleviate the cultural obstacles to dialogue? The answer, we argue, is by using Socratic dialogue as the architecture for the design of social systems, societies can overcome the cultural obstacles to inter-cultural dialogue of imposed insider-outsider social divisions, of imposed social hierarchies, and of imposed social walls around cultures. We elaborate on how Socratic Dialogue removes those cultural obstacles to intercultural dialogue when used as social architecture or as a bluep…Read more
    How do we alleviate the cultural obstacles to dialogue? The answer, we argue, is by using Socratic dialogue as the architecture for the design of social systems, societies can overcome the cultural obstacles to inter-cultural dialogue of imposed insider-outsider social divisions, of imposed social hierarchies, and of imposed social walls around cultures. We elaborate on how Socratic Dialogue removes those cultural obstacles to intercultural dialogue when used as social architecture or as a blueprint for institutions that open the social gates to all “outsiders” through the social levelling of hierarchies, and through the creation of social bridges among all “parallel” cultures.
  •  69
    Book Review: Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge: A Historical Outline of Aims and Tensions
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (4): 433-437. 2016.
    Philosophy of Social SciencePhilosophy of Higher Education
  •  71
    Book Review: The Customization of Science: The Impact of Religious and Political Worldviews on Contemporary Science, by Steve Fuller, Mikael Stenmark, and Ulf Zackarisson, eds (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (1): 92-97. 2016.
    Philosophy of Social ScienceSociology of Science
  •  33
    Book Review: Language and Responsibility
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 109-114. 1983.
    Philosophy of Social Science
  • An Evaluation of Gombrich's Critique of Aesthetics
    Dissertation, Boston University Graduate School. 1976.
  •  63
    Book reviews : Language, counter-memory, practice. By Michel Foucault. Ithaca, N.y.: Cornell university press, 1980. Pp. 240. $5.95 (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3): 369-371. 1985.
    Philosophy of Social ScienceMichel Foucault
  •  86
    Book Reviews : The Way of Discovery, An Introduction to the Thought of Michael Polanyi. By Richard Gelwick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 181. $14.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper (review)
    with Sue Carry Jansen
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (3): 390-395. 1979.
    Philosophy of Social ScienceSociology of Science
  •  105
    Book reviews : Philosophy and the human sciences. Volume 2: The possibility of naturalism: A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences. By Roy Bhaskar. Humanities press: New jersey 1979. Pp. IX + 228. $28.75 (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (2): 235-236. 1985.
    Philosophy of Social Science, General Works
  •  72
    Book Review: Bunge, Mario. 2006. Chasing Reality: Strife Over Realism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (4): 545-551. 2008.
    Philosophy of Social ScienceLatin American Philosophy of Science, Logic, and MathematicsPhilosophy o…Read more
    Philosophy of Social ScienceLatin American Philosophy of Science, Logic, and MathematicsPhilosophy of Social Science, Miscellaneous
  •  76
    A Rational Animal and Other Philosophical Essays on the Nature of Man
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (4): 448-452. 1982.
  •  66
    Book Reviews : The Economist's View of the World: Government, Markets, & Public Policy. BY STEVEN E. RHOADS. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 416. U.S. $12.95 (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (3): 424-426. 1988.
    Government and DemocracyEconomics and EthicsMarkets
  •  21
    Hilary Putnam, Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity. Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 37 (4): 155-156. 2017.
  •  59
    Greg Frost-Arnold , Carnap, Tarski, Quine at Harvard: Conversations on Logic, Mathematics, and Science . Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 34 (5): 222-224. 2014.
    Rudolf CarnapW. V. O. Quine
  •  55
    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
  •  81
    When to Begin Writing
    Teaching Philosophy 3 (2): 181-183. 1979.
    Philosophy of Education
  •  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
  •  56
    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.
  •  43
    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
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    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
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