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24Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Salience in Family FirmsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 21 (2): 235-255. 2011.ABSTRACT:The notion of stakeholder salience based on attributes (e.g., power, legitimacy, urgency) is applied in the family business setting. We argue that where principal institutions intersect (i.e., family and business); managerial perceptions of stakeholder salience will be different and more complex than where institutions are based on a single dominant logic. We propose that (1) whereas utilitarian power is more likely in the general business case, normative power is more typical in family…Read more
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44A Silent MelodyNewman Studies Journal 9 (2): 79-90. 2012.Although Newman’s Fifteenth Oxford University Sermon is often considered a precursor to An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), the following essay views this Sermon as an expression of Newman’s personal struggle from 1839 to 1845: in the midst of confusion, he pondered; against the threat of liberal skepticism, he defended truth; in the face of doubt, he reaffirmed his relationship with God.
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6A Reconstruction of Berkeley: Minds and Physical Objects as Theoretical EntitiesRatio (Misc.) 13 (1): 76. 1971.
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42Being unreasonable: Perelman and the problem of fallacies (review)Argumentation 7 (4): 385-402. 1993.Most work on fallacies continues to conceptualize fallacious reasoning as involving a breach of a formal or quasi-formal rule. Chaim Perelman's theory of argumentation provides a way to conceptualize fallacies in a completely different way. His approach depends on an understanding of standards of rationality as essentially connected with conceptions of universality. Such an approach allows one to get beyond some of the basic problems of fallacy theory, and turns informal logic toward substantive…Read more
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9Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen HegemonyUniversity of Chicago Press. 1994.Why does one theory "succeed" while another, possibly clearer interpretation, fails? By exploring two observationally equivalent yet conceptually incompatible views of quantum mechanics, James T. Cushing shows how historical contingency can be crucial to determining a theory's construction and its position among competing views. Since the late 1920s, the theory formulated by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at Copenhagen has been the dominant interpretation of quantum mechanics. Yet an alternative …Read more
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1Science and Reality: Recent Work in the Philosophy of Science (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 1984.
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50Leibniz on Estimating the UncertainThe Leibniz Review 14 31-41. 2004.Leibniz’s De incerti aestimatione, which contains his solution to the division problem, has not received much attention, let alone much appreciation. This is surprising because it is in this work that the definition of probability in terms of equally possible cases appears for the first time. The division problem is used to establish and test probability theory; it can be stated as follows: if two players agree to play a game in which one has to win a certain number of rounds in order to win the…Read more
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29Aristotle, Berkeley, and Proteus: Joyce's Use of PhilosophyPhilosophy and Literature 5 (1): 21-32. 1981.
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61P. Oxy., 59 - The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. LIX. Edition with translation and notes by E. W. Handley, H. G. Ioannidou, P. J. Parsons, J. E. G. Whitehorne. With contributions by H. Maehler, M. Maehler and M. L. West. (Graeco-Roman Memoirs, 79.) XII. Pp. 213; 8 plates. London: Publ. for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, 1992 (review)The Classical Review 44 (02): 386-388. 1994.
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14Challenges to Social Philosophy: Baudrillard and KristevaSocial Philosophy Today 12 327-339. 1996.
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89Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Salience in Family FirmsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 21 (2): 235-255. 2011.ABSTRACT:The notion of stakeholder salience based on attributes (e.g., power, legitimacy, urgency) is applied in the family business setting. We argue that where principal institutions intersect (i.e., family and business); managerial perceptions of stakeholder salience will be different and more complex than where institutions are based on a single dominant logic. We propose that (1) whereas utilitarian power is more likely in the general business case, normative power is more typical in family…Read more
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62Sellars on Scientific Realism and PerceivingPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1976. 1976.
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20The Convergence and Content of Scientific OpinionPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984. 1984.Examples, mainly from research in current physics, are used to examine and illustrate the network of factors which produce in scientific debate a convergence of opinion to a generally accepted set of laws and theories. Also addressed is the question of the reliability of these general theories as a faithful representation of the complexity of physical reality.
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23Models, High-Energy Theoretical Physics and RealismPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.Examples of theory development in quantum field theory and in S-matrix theory are related to three questions of interest to the philosophy of science. The first is the central role of highly abstract, mathematical models in the creation of theories. Second, the process of creation and justification actually used make it plausible that a successful theory is equally well characterized as being stable against attack rather than as being objectively correct. Lastly, the issue of the reality of theo…Read more
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20A Response to Paul TellerPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.
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20Causality as an Overarching Principle in PhysicsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.Many factors are operative in the scientific enterprise to provide the epistemic warrant which finally convinces people to accept a scientific theory. The methods, goals and meanings of terms do not remain fixed, but evolve over time. This paper concentrates on one aspect of this shifting pattern of scientific practice - the role and meaning of causality in modern physics.
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62Locality/Separability: Is This Necessarily a Useful Distinction?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994.In the philosophy of science, we are to assess critically and on their intrinsic merits various proposals for a consistent interpretation of quantum mechanics, including resolutions of the measurement problem and accounts of the long-range Bell correlations. In this paper I suggest that the terms of debate may have been so severely and unduly constrained by the reigning orthodoxy that we labor unproductively with an unhelpful vocabulary and set of definitions and distinctions. I present an alter…Read more
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8Philosophy Clubs: A ChallengeProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 65 (1). 1991.
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