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21Rationality and the Crisis of the European SciencesProceedings of the XVth World Congress of Philosophy 6 547-549. 1975.
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4The Bible's Authority: A Portrait Gallery of Thinkers from Lessing to BultmannBurns & Oates. 1991.A vivid exploration of and reflection on the life and thought of twenty-one German philosophers and theologians.
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23Otto Neurath’s Economics in ContextSpringer Verlag. 2008.Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was a highly unorthodox thinker both in philosophy and economics. The contributions to this sparkling new book conclude that Neurath touched on many of the most critical problems of economic theory during its formative years as a modern discipline. His economics provide insights into the foundational problems of modern economics and should encourage contemporary economic theorists to critically reflect their own hidden presumptions.
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43Self-love, Seif-interest and the Rational Economic AgentAnalyse & Kritik 20 (2): 184-204. 1998.Hume has a special place in justifications of claims made for rational choice theory to offer a unified language and explanatory framework for the social sciences. He is invoked in support of the assumptions characterising the instrumental rationality of agents and the constancy of their motivations across different institutional settings. This paper explores the problems with the expansionary aims of rational choice theory through criticism of these appeals to Hume. First, Hume does not assume …Read more
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Lost in the postIn Chris Rojek, Bryan S. Turner & Jean-François Lyotard (eds.), The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard, Routledge. pp. 13--128. 1998.
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Law and Gynesis: Freud v. SchreberIn Philippa Berry & Andrew Wernick (eds.), Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion, Routledge. pp. 238--249. 1992.
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2Cameo: Reviewing the literatureIn J. J. Wellington (ed.), Succeeding with Your Doctorate, Sage Publications. pp. 88. 2005.
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1542 MarketIn Jan Peil & Irene van Staveren (eds.), Handbook of economics and ethics, Edward Elgar. pp. 317. 2009.
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11Psychoanalysis and sociology: From freudo-Marxism to Freudo-feminismIn Barry Smart & George Ritzer (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory, Sage Publications. pp. 112--124. 2001.
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Journalism in the market placeIn Andrew Belsey & Ruth F. Chadwick (eds.), Ethical issues in journalism and the media, Routledge. pp. 15--32. 1992.
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1616 EgoismIn Jan Peil & Irene van Staveren (eds.), Handbook of economics and ethics, Edward Elgar. pp. 115. 2009.
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66 Commerce and the language of valueIn Andrew Collier, Margaret Scotford Archer & William Outhwaite (eds.), Defending Objectivity: Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier, Routledge. pp. 75. 2004.
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40Against Reductionist Explanations of Human Behaviour: John O'NeillAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 72 (1): 173-188. 1998.[John Dupré] This paper attacks some prominent contemporary attempts to provide reductive accounts of ever wider areas of human behaviour. In particular, I shall address the claims of sociobiology (or evolutionary psychology) to provide a universal account of human nature, and attempts to subsume ever wider domains of behaviour within the scope of economics. I shall also consider some recent suggestions as to how these approaches might be integrated. Having rejected the imperialistic ambitions o…Read more
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38Existentialism and Sociology: A Study of Jean-Paul SartreInternational Studies in Philosophy 9 234-235. 1977.
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1409The Varieties of Intrinsic ValueThe Monist 75 (2): 119-137. 1992.To hold an environmental ethic is to hold that non-human beings and states of affairs in the natural world have intrinsic value. This seemingly straightforward claim has been the focus of much recent philosophical discussion of environmental issues. Its clarity is, however, illusory. The term ‘intrinsic value’ has a variety of senses and many arguments on environmental ethics suffer from a conflation of these different senses: specimen hunters for the fallacy of equivocation will find rich picki…Read more
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20Oh, My Others, There is No Other!: Civic Recognition and Hegelian Other-WisenessTheory, Culture and Society 18 (2-3): 77-90. 2001.We are currently approaching a political stalemate between two discursive idioms of community and difference. A third way has been introduced through the politics of identity recognition. Yet the latter tends to overwhelm the politics of community on the grounds of its outmoded universalism and sacrifice of singularity. More with the interests of a welfare society in mind than the stakes in cultural politics, the article restates the Hegelian dialectic of recognition as a critique of both absolu…Read more
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1Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition: Texts and CommentaryScience and Society 62 (2): 317-319. 1998.
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8Garth Gillan "The Horizons of the Flesh: Critical Perspectives on the Thought of Merleau-Ponty" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 34 (4): 613. 1974.
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21Future Generations: Present HarmsPhilosophy 68 (263): 35-51. 1993.There is a special problem with respect to our obligations to future generations which is that we can benefit or harm them but that they cannot benefit or harm us. Goodin summarizes the point well:No analysis of intergenerational justice that is cast even vaguely in terms of reciprocity can hope to succeed. The reason is the one which Addison… puts into the mouth of an Old Fellow of College, who when he was pressed by the Society to come into something that might rebound to the good of their Suc…Read more
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28Against Reductionist Explanations of Human Behaviour: John O’NeillSupplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 72 (1): 173-188. 1998.[John Dupré] This paper attacks some prominent contemporary attempts to provide reductive accounts of ever wider areas of human behaviour. In particular, I shall address the claims of sociobiology to provide a universal account of human nature, and attempts to subsume ever wider domains of behaviour within the scope of economics. I shall also consider some recent suggestions as to how these approaches might be integrated. Having rejected the imperialistic ambitions of these approaches, I shall b…Read more
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56Formalism, Hamilton and Complex NumbersStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 17 (3): 351. 1986.The development and applicability of complex numbers is often cited in defence of the formalist philosophy of mathematics. This view is rejected through an examination of hamilton's development of the notion of complex numbers as ordered pairs of reals, And his later development of the quaternion theory, Which subsequently formed the basis of vector analysis. Formalism, By protecting informal assumptions from critical scrutiny, Constrained rather than encouraged the development of mathematics
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45Conceptions of Value in Environmental Decision-MakingEnvironmental Values 9 (4): 521-536. 2000.Environmental problems have an ethical dimension. They are not just about the efficient use of resources. Justice in the distribution of environmental goods and burdens, fairness in the processes of environmental decision-making, the moral claims of future generations and non-humans, these and other ethical values inform the responses of citizens to environmental problems. How can these concerns enter into good policy-making processes?Two expert-based approaches are commonly advocated for incorp…Read more
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35Practical reason and mathematical argumentStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (2): 195-205. 1998.
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9Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural WorldEnvironmental Values 4 (2): 181-182. 1993.
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22Unified Science as political philosophyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (3): 575-596. 2003.Logical positivism is widely associated with an illiberal technocratic view of politics. This view is a caricature. Some members of the left Vienna circle were explicit in their criticism of this conception of politics. In particular, Neurath’s work attempted to link the internal epistemological pluralism and tolerance of logical empiricism with political pluralism and the rejection of a technocratic politics. This paper examines the role that unified science played in Neurath’s defence of polit…Read more
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