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1Last Laughs and Dead Ends: How to Get Death’s Goat, or Let’s Put the “Yin” Back in DyingThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1 (1): 195-209. 2020.The article’s purpose is to illustrate ways in which renowned philosophers, statesmen, and poets—as well as family members and friends of this author—utilized humor to express fearlessness of or contempt for death, or indeed to mock others’ fears of dying or tendencies to treat death too seriously. If Sigmund Freud was correct in hypothesizing that humor is the ego’s defense against life’s affronts, and if death poses the greatest possible affront to life, then jokes about death are the stronges…Read more
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1Jody Azzouni, Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (3): 156-158. 1995.
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Jody Azzouni, Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice (review)Philosophy in Review 15 156-158. 1995.
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Humanitarian therapy as a means of protecting against detriments of technological communitySotsium I Vlast 2 19-28. 2020.Globalization and the digital revolution are transforming human civilization in unprecedented ways, in large measure via innovation as well as imposition of emergent technologies on growing numbers of consumers. While these transformations confer undeniable benefits to humanity, the benefits are bundled with a corresponding set of detriments. This paper does not contest the benefits, but confronts the detriments. It appeals to humanities therapy as a remedy for many of the cognate problems exper…Read more
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Exploitation in the Prisoner's DilemmaIn Peter Danielson (ed.), Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution, Oxford University Press. pp. 7--161. 1998.
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International Studies in the Philosophy of ScienceInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Isps 10 187. 1996.
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Synchronicities, Serpents, and “Something Else-ness”: A Meta-Dialogue on Philosophy and Psychotherapy1Philosophical Practice 4 (3): 519-534. 2009.Synchronicity IIn the summer of 2006, I read several books by well-known existential psychiatrist and insightful novelist Irvin Yalom.2 They were all thought-provoking and mightily entertaining. Dr. Yalom sustains lively interests in philosophical aspects of psychiatry, as well as in psychiatric aspects of philosophy. Among other works, he has written two profoundly philosophical novels, namely The SchopenhauerCure and When Nietzsche Wept, in which he has delved deeply and creatively into the ps…Read more
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