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The Essence of Neurosis is the Inability to Tolerate AmbiguityFreud Institute. 2017.Freud said that 'the essence of neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.' In this short work, it is explained what this means and why it is true.
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No Difference between Psychopathy and Lack of AutonomyFreud Institute. 2018.There is no difference between autonomy and non-psychopathy or, equivalently, between psychopathy and non-autonomy. Or rather, there is a difference, but it is tenuous, in that someone who is non-autonomous is non-psychopathic only as long the institution that hosts him is non-psychopathic. So his non-psychopathy, being borrowed, is both weak and ultimately devoid of reality.
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A brief statement of the most basic principles of the discipline of Knowledge Management (KM).
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The shred of truth in Kuhn's erroneous theory of scientific theories is identified.
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How to Know Whether a Given Conceit is PathologicalFreud Institute. 2017.Does the conceit in question expand awareness or narrow it? If it narrows it, then it is pathological. It if expands it, it is non-pathological.
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BrokestersFreud Institute. 2018.An explanation of the psychology of the bureaucrat and of bureaucratic institutions.
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Lack of Coordination is an Expression of Internal ConflictFreud Institute. 2017.Lack of coordination is an expression of internal conflict.
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Psychopathy in Relation to the Insurance IndustryFreud Institute. 2017.Insurance agents are confidence-men--con men--and that is what psychopaths are; and that is why psychopaths are drawn to the insurance industry, which is the insurance industry is so tightly regulated.
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Obsessions are Cognitive Compulsions and Compulsions are Behavioral ObsessionsFreud Institute. 2017.Obsessions are internalized compulsions, and compulsions are externalized obsessions.
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Ein Crash-Kurs in Erkenntnistheorie
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1Nach David Hume ist das Konzept der Kausalität und Wahrscheinlichkeit in Begriffen von Ähnlichkeit und Wiederholung zu verstehen. In diesem Buch wird gezeigt, dass Sie in Bezug auf das Konzept der Kontinuität zu verstehen sind. Eine logische Folge ist, dass es keine legitime Grundlage für Skepsis hinsichtlich der Legitimität der induktiven Folgerung gibt. Ein weiterer ist, dass Anti-Realismus über theoretische Entitäten ist undenkbar.
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La philosophie de la religion. 2018.Un certain nombre tente de fournir une base rationnelle pour le sentiment religieux sont clairement énoncés et soigneusement critiqué, la plupart d'entre eux étant montré à l'échec. Dans le même temps, on fait valoir que la légitimité du sentiment religieux n'est en aucun cas minée par de tels échecs, puisque toute perspective dont la légitimité dépend du résultat de l'enquête logique ou empirique est pour cette raison même une perspective non-religieuse. Et la raison pour cela n'est pas qu'une …Read more
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Les sciences empiriques font des suppositions qu'elles ne sont pas elles-mêmes capables de justifier. La philosophie justifie ces hypothèses; C'est son travail.
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Éthique. 2018.Une introduction rapide aux problèmes fondamentaux de l'éthique, ce travail consiste en des réponses pointues et profondes aux questions fondamentales: * les obligations légales ont-elles un poids moral? * peut-on agir immoralement envers soi-même? * Quelle est la base objective des revendications morales légitimes? * Comment savons-nous le bien du mal? * Comment peut-il y avoir une responsabilité morale dans un monde déterministe? Rigoureux mais accessible, ce travail est une introduction …Read more
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In this short work, Cantor's famous 'diagonal' proof of the non-recursivity of the class of real numbers is stated and discussed.
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Ask Me Anything about Psychopathy!Freud Institute. 2018.A series of sharp, deep answers to hard-hitting questions about psychopathy, with embedded link to the author real-timing it.
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Two Kinds of BureaucraciesFreud Institute. 2018.There are two kinds of bureaucracies: those that serve some non-bureaucratic purpose, albeit in a bureaucratic way, and those whose only purpose is to create more bureaucracy.
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Este libro establece y analiza la Teoría de las descripciones de Russell
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Identity. 2016.It is said what it is to persist in time, and on that basis it is shown that time-travel, teleportation, and other mainstays of science fiction are impossible.
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Un curso intensivo en epistemología
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Conocimiento teórico e inferencia inductivaPhilosophypedia. 2018.Según David Hume, el concepto de causalidad y probabilidad debe entenderse en términos de los conceptos de similitud y repetición. En este libro, se demuestra que deben ser entendidos en términos del concepto de la continuidad. Un corolario es que no existe una base legítima para el escepticismo sobre la legitimidad de la inferencia inductiva. Otra es que el anti-realismo sobre las entidades teóricas es erróneo.
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1The United States is Not Communist: But It is MarxistFreud Institute. 2018.The United States is not communist: We have a market-economy. But that economy is embedded in a larger culture whose outlook is largely Marxist in nature, and this constricts and also sterilizes commercial activity in the United States.
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Paranoias as Autistic Safe SpacesFreud Institute. 2018.In being paranoid, one is consciously afraid of something that one unconsciously desires; and in many cases, what is unconsciously desired is to remain within the safe confines of an autistic bubble.
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Paranoias are Inverted DesiresFreud Institute. 2018.Paranoias are unconscious desires that are represented in consciousness as fears. In being paranoid, one unconsciously desires what one consciously fears.
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Is paranoia one of the symptoms of OCD?Freud Institute. 2018.Paranoia is obsessive fear, and obsessive fear is unconscious desire.
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People who Lack Integrity Cannot Act: They Can Only ReactFreud Institute. 2018.Doing is about having ideals. Merely reacting isn't. Therefore people who lack integrity can react but cannot act.
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Wittgenstein believed linguistic competence to be the very essence of cognitive competence. This is shown to be false and the main fallacy in Wittgenstein's argument is identified.
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1The Role of Values in Science. 2018.It is shown that moral values are constitutive of the scientific process and therefore, contrary to the traditional view, not incidental to it.
University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 2006
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |