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Un curso intensivo en epistemología
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The most basic laws and principles of the Predicate Calculus, also known as Quantification Theory, are stated, as clearly and concisely as possible.
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Institutional Psychopathy in Relation to the Fractal Character of InstitutionsFreud Institute. 2017.It is shown that institutions are fractals, meaning that are structurally the same as their parts, and that for this reason liberal institutions are quicker than conservative institutions to decay into a condition of abject psychopathy.
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Chomsky's arguments for the existence of pre-experiential knowledge, and for the existence of sub-personal cognition, are clearly stated and shown to be cogent.
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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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The shred of truth in Kuhn's erroneous theory of scientific theories is identified.
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Skepticism in Relation to Disbelief in Personal FreedomFreud Institute. 2018.Granting that there is more substance to the idea that we lack freedom than there is to the idea we know nothing about the external world, neither idea has much substance; and the appeal of both ideas, especially of the latter—and doubly especially of the two taken in conjunction---is that they give bureaucrats an excuse to be bureaucrats—to be people who do not know anything and are therefore under no obligation to do anything.
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Psychopathy-as-Misanthropy vs. Psychopathy-as-Lack-of-IntegrityFreud Institute. 2018.The term 'psychopath' is ambiguous. Sometimes it refers to people who have no integrity. And sometimes it refers to people are misanthropic but may nonetheless have integrity.
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Boringness as Camouflage for Pseudo-scholarsFreud Institute. 2018.Sometimes, when a given person and/or his scholarly work are boring, it is intentional: that person is deliberately being boring so that nobody bothers to scrutinize, or therefore discover, the emptiness of either him or his work.
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Neuroses are secondary mental illnesses, it being their purpose to contain psychoses.
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Este libro establece y analiza la Teoría de las descripciones de Russell
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Two Kinds of SciencesFreud Institute. 2018.The sciences are typically divided into the physical and the psychological—or, what comes to the same thing, the natural and the social. This is not the right way to divide the class of sciences. The right division is between the sciences that study entropic systems and the sciences that study counter-entropic systems. Biology and psychology study counter-entropic systems. Physics studies entropic systems. The concept of a function—not in the mathematical, but in the purpose-related sense---is c…Read more
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Academic journals are clogged with gratuitous scholarship. This prevents the advancement of the corresponding disciplines in many ways, five of which are identified in this short work.
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The Analogue-digital Distinction And The Cogency Of Kant's Transcendental ArgumentsExistentia 16 (3-4): 279-320. 2006.
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If It isn’t necessary, its non-existence is
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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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Mind, Meaning & Scientific ExplanationJohn-Michael Kuczynski. 2018.An analysis of the concepts in terms of which we understand the internal (psychological) and external (physical) realms, with special emphasis being placed on the concepts of causality, interdisciplinary reduction, and the nature of the self. Special attention is given to the nature of psychological explanation, and substantive contentions about the nature of psychopathology are defended, especially in relation to OCD and psychopathy.
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Why Some People Never finish their DissertationsFreud Institute. 2018.Climbing the ranks in academia is about forfeiting integrity. But if integrity is forfeited too soon, the person in question won't have the moral fiber needed to write a dissertation. And when this happens, the result is a perpetual dissertator. The phenomenon of being a perpetual dissertator has nothing to do with the difficulties supposedly inherent in writing a philosophy or economics dissertation. There are no such difficulties. The perpetual dissertator simply forfeited his moral fiber too …Read more
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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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The Psychology of the VeganFreud Institute. 2018.Vegans self-identify as animals. So for them, consuming animal products is cannibalism, and that is why don't consume such products.
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Who does psychoanalysis help?Freud Institute. 2018.It helps non-bureaucrats and doesn't help bureaucrats.
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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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OCD: The Philosopher's IllnessFreud Institute. 2018.The philosopher is an obsessive-compulsive and the obsessive-compulsive is a philosopher.
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Numbers as Ordered Pairs. 2018.According to Frege, n=Kn, where n is any cardinal number and Kn is the class of all n-tuples. According to Von Neumann, n=Kpn, where Kpn is the class of all of n's predecessors. These analyses are prima facie incompatible with each other, given that Kn≠Kpn, for n>0. In the present paper it is shown that these analyses are in fact compatible with each other, for the reason that each analysis can and ultimately must be interpreted as being to the effect that n=Cn, where Cn is the class of all orde…Read more
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Jesus vs. Socrates: Religious vs. Secular PerspectivesFreud Institute. 2020.This short work puts forth two answers to the question: In what ways are Jesus and Socrates similar? One of these answers is put forth by a Christian and embodies a deeply Christian perspective, and the other is put forth by two non-Christians, working jointly, and embodies a decidedly secular perspective. The question was first raised by the Christian author.
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Les préceptes fondamentaux de la discipline de la philosophie analytique sont couverts à la fois vivement et complètement. Une attention particulière est accordée à la philosophie du langage et à la relation de conséquence logique.
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The Mind as Double-fractalFreud Institute. 2017.How a person is on the inside replicates how he is on the outside—so he is a fractal in that sense. And how he is in little matters replicates how he is in big ones—so he is a fractal in that sense as well. And so it is that a person’s identity has a doubly fractal structure.
University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 2006
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |