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14Halldén Sören. A pragmatic approach to modal theory. A reprint, with minor changes, of XXXIII 137. Proceedings of a Colloquium on Modal and Many-valued Logics, Helsinki, 23-26 August, 1962, Acta philosophica Fennica, no. 16, Helsinki 1963, pp. 53–64 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (4): 601-602. 1975.
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21Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl: A Collection of Essays (edited book)Ontos. 2012.Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume s skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in high regard, inquiring into the way we perceive and emotionally experience the world, into the nature and function of human empathy and sympathy and the role of the imagination in processes of intersubjecti…Read more
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13Philosophy of Quine (edited book)Garland. 2000.W.V. Quine (1908-) has played a crucial role in philosophy during the second half of the 20th century. These five volumes contain the most essential of the more than 2000 articles written about Quine's work. Chosen for their clarity and brevity, they cover both basic ideas as well as objections to Quine's work. These articles are a valuable resource for students and scholars; many have been previously available only in hard-to-find sources, and in addition, some have been written or translated e…Read more
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57Relativity, rotation and rigidityErkenntnis 54 (1): 31-38. 2001.Much of Essler''s work has been devoted to bringing science andphilosophy together for the purpose of conceptual clarification. Oneparticularly interesting area for such cooperation between science andphilosophy has been relativity theory. In this paper I will consider oneinstance of such interplay: the transformation that our notions of rotationand rigidity have undergone in general relativity and what this process canteach us. I will start by saying a little about the physics of the situation …Read more
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30Intentionality and RationalityIn Joseph Margolis, Michael Krausz & Richard M. Burian (eds.), Rationality, Relativism, and the Human Sciences, M. Nijhoff. pp. 109--125. 1986.
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96Word and ObjectMIT Press. 1960.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is asocial art.
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44Deontic logicIn Risto Hilpinen (ed.), Deontic logic: introductory and systematic readings, Sold and Distributed in the U.s.a. and Canada By Kluwer Boston. pp. 4--159. 1976.
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