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    The Contextual Fallacy
    In Gerald James Larson & Eliot Deutsch (eds.), Interpreting across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 84-97. 1988.
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    Artistas, expositores y críticos
    Praxis Filosófica 7 23-30. 1997.
    Lo que consideramos «nuestro arte» no es solo obra de los artistas, sino también de los teóricos en el sentido más amplio, cuya función queda patente en las innumerables circunstancias creativas que reunieron a artistas, historiadores del arte y críticos. La gama de problemas que aquí se plantea despierta de forma refrescante todas nuestras perplejidades estéticas. Perplejidades que encuentran tanto el simple aficionado al arte contemporáneo como el esteta consumado.
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    Roots of Bergson’S Philosophy
    Columbia University Press. 1943.
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    Myths and Fictions (edited book)
    with Schlomo Biderman
    BRILL. 1993.
    _Myths and Fictions_ — the third in a series of books on comparative philosophy and religion — is a collection of original essays, none previously published, on the theory and the actuality of myths and fictions in the different cultures of the world. Through all the essays there runs the question of the relation of literal truth to truth conceived in other ways or dimensions. Taken as a whole, the book makes a serious attempt to get beyond the confines of any single culture and enter into the m…Read more
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    A B s T r a C t
    with Shlomo Biderman and Joseph Agassi
    The traditional hermeneutic ruling not to use reports and legends for questioning edicts and rules signifies the tacit recognition, contrary to explicit statement, of the part of the Rabbinical leadership, of the inevitability of change in diverse aspects if Jewish life. This may invite criticism of the conduct of the ancient leadership, which, as always, is questionable and useless. Rather, an open discussion should be instituted on the proposal to make future changes openly, not surreptitiousl…Read more
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    Ha-Oman be-tarbuyot ha-ʻolam
    ʻAm ʻoved. 1970.
  • Toldot ha-filosofyah: meha-Renesans ṿe-ʻad Ḳanṭ
    Maṭkal/Ḳetsin ḥinukh rashi/Gale Tsahal, Miśrad ha-biṭaḥon. 1978.
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    Walter Kaufmann, "Discovering the Mind" (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (2): 244. 1983.
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    Interpretation in Religion (edited book)
    with Shlomo Biderman
    BRILL. 1992.
    _Interpretation in Religion_ is the work of a group of contemporary American, European, and Israeli scholars and philosophers, who analyze the crucial course of interpretation in religion — religion in general, and, in particular, Hinduism, ancient Egyptian religion, Judaism, christianity, and Islam.
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    Rationality in question: on Eastern and Western views of rationality (edited book)
    with Shlomo Bidermann
    E.J. Brill. 1989.
    Rationality and Logic J. Kekes i It is a basic assumption of the Western intellectual and moral tradition that rationality is a central value....
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    The Western Blindness to Non-Western Philosophies
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 102-108. 1998.
    Western philosophers still tend to think that philosophy, in a sense that they can take with professional interest, does not exist in non-Western traditions. To persuade them otherwise would require them to make an effort that they prefer to evade. I attempt to begin to persuade them by closely paraphrasing a few arguments by the early Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu and a few by the Indian skeptic and mystic Shriharsha. One of Chuang Tzu's arguments has some resemblance to Plato's Third-Man argu…Read more
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    Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 54 (3): 76-78. 1957.
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    Analyse des poetischen Denkens
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 14 (1): 134-135. 1955.
  • Roots of Bergson's Philosophy
    Philosophy 19 (74): 278-278. 1944.
  • The three philosophical traditions
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 59 235-296. 1997.
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    The Mind of China: The Culture, Customs, and Beliefs of Traditional China
    Philosophy East and West 25 (4): 492-493. 1975.
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    Roots of Bergson's philosophy
    Columbia university press. 1943.
    ROOTS OF BERGSONS PHILOSOPHY Ben-Ami Scharfstein ROOTS OF BERGSONS PHILOSOPHY NEW YORK MCMXLIII COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS To My Father and Mother ...
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    The adventure I am now undertaking is an appraisal of my profession, philosophy, of my fellow professionals, the philosophers, and, finally of myself at least ...
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    Letters to the editor
    with I. Grattan-Guinness and Peter Loptson
    History and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2): 221-224. 1983.
    One of the books submitted for review to this journal was B.?A. Scharfstein's The philosophers: their lives and the nature of their thought (1980, Oxford). Although not explicitly concerned with logic, it raised various questions for history and historiography (possibilities for psycho-history, for example). Thus I sought a review, which was written by P. Loptson and published in volume 3 (1982), 105?107. The ensuing correspondence has been edited for publication by me, with the authors? approva…Read more
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    Philosophy East, Philosophy West
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 170 (4): 465-466. 1980.
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    Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday difficulty with words in the ineffable reality of the philosophers and theologians, just as there is something unformulable, and finally mysterious in the prosaic, everyday successes and failures of words.