-
10Philosophy of Economics, History ofIn Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications. pp. 701-778. 2013.This encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences. The subject of this encyclopedia is purposefully multi- and inter-disciplinary. Knowledge boundaries are both delineated and crossed over. The goal is to convey a clear sense of how philosophy looks at the social sciences and to mark out a…Read more
-
85Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge. It celebrates the work of this influential Argentine/Canadian physicist and philosopher. Contributions show the value of Bunge’s science-informed philosophy and his systematic approach to philosophical problems. The chapters explore the exceptionally wide spectrum of Bunge’s contributions to: metaphysics, methodology and philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of psychology…Read more
-
6Leibniz' Argument for Innate IdeasIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.This chapter contains sections titled: Three Arguments.
-
IntroductionIn Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis & Alexei M. Marcoux (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics, Routledge. 2018.
-
7IntroductionIn Eugene Heath & Byron Kaldis (eds.), Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, University of Chicago Press. pp. 1-10. 2017.
-
5World Three and Cognitivism: Philosophy in FilmIn Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor (eds.), The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie, Springer Verlag. pp. 319-338. 2018.Taking its cue from Ian C. Jarvie’s views on the philosophy of film and his approach to the ontology of films as Popperian “World Three” objects, this chapter elaborates on the latter by highlighting similar theses by Bernard Bolzano and Gottlob Frege in order to safeguard an alternative route toward the possibility of film being vehicles of philosophy.
-
18The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2018.The essays included in the text explore the many facets of business ethics. In this overview of business ethics, we see its relationship to the social sciences, management practices, etc.
-
26Concept Nativism and Transhumanism: Educating future mindsHumana Mente 11 (33). 2018.This paper programmatically posits, argues for the relevance of, and briefly addresses the question whether innate conceptual repertoires, if admitted as plausible, should matter to transhumanist debates. The latter should turn their attention to analyzing the radically enhanced cognitive capacities with which such future human beings will be endowed. The answers eventually given to this puzzle will inevitably challenge received views on education, especially the kind of education appropriate fo…Read more
-
12The Learning Brain and the ClassroomHumana Mente 11 (33). 2018.Observational learning is ubiquitous. We very often observe and pick up information about how others behave and subsequently replicate similar behaviours in one way or another. Focusing on observational learning, I investigate human imitation, the mechanisms that underpin it as well as the processes that complement it, in order to assess its contribution to learning and education. Furthermore, I construe emotion as a scaffold for observational learning and bring together evidence about its influ…Read more
-
5The University as MicrocosmEducational Philosophy and Theory 41 (5): 553-574. 2009.This paper puts forward the model of ‘microcosm‐macrocosm’ isomorphism encapsulated in certain philosophical views on the form of university education. The human being as a ‘microcosm’ should reflect internally the external ‘macrocosm’. Higher Education is a socially instituted attempt to guide human beings into forming themselves as microcosms of the whole world in its diversity. By getting to know the surrounding world, they re‐enact it intellectually. Such a re‐enacting is a guiding theme in …Read more
-
7This book raises and examines the philosophical problem of how it is possible that the social world is constituted as a unified totality. A novel theory of social i holism is put forward on the basis of what is specified as formal ontology. The first part of the book discloses the non-extensional constitution of the social world and proposes that the individual is to be understood as a 'Leibnizian entelechial monad' in conceptual communication with the others. it is further established that the …Read more
-
24World Justice, Global Politics and Nation States: Three Ethico-Political ProblemsThe European Legacy 7 (2): 167-194. 2002.This paper identifies three sets of problems of a specific ethico-political type, generated by the interrelationship between ethics and politics in the areas of world justice and global politics. One instance in which this interrelationship is tested is that of the conflict of duties and values as it appears in the particular domain of the relations amongst sovereign nation states as well as between them and other social groups. Following the general Introduction, the main body of the paper cont…Read more
-
40Could the Environment Acquire its Own Discourse?History of the Human Sciences 16 (3): 73-103. 2003.This article addresses the question as to whether it is logically possible to fashion a discourse exclusively for the natural environment. Could such a discourse emerge without colonization by other social spheres acting as proxy? The prospects appear to be rather bleak, for even in the case of two apparently non-human-directed or non-committal discourses, that of extensionist ethics and new sophisticated management (of environmental crises), the latent social-constructionism built into both ren…Read more
-
Worlds of Difference: European Discourses of Toleration, c. 1100-c. 1550. By Cary J. NedermanThe European Legacy 9 399-399. 2004.
-
Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. By Nikolas RoseThe European Legacy 9 554-555. 2004.
-
Agent-Centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism. By George W. HarrisThe European Legacy 9 400-401. 2004.
-
27Could the ethics of institutionalized health care be anything but Kantian? Collecting building blocks for a unifying metaethicsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 8 (1): 39-52. 2005.Is a Health Care Ethics possible? Against sceptical and relativist doubts Kantian deontology may advance a challenging alternative affirming the possibility of such an ethics on the condition that deontology be adopted as a total programme or complete vision. Kantian deontology is enlisted to move us from an ethics of two-person informal care to one of institutions. It justifies this affirmative answer by occupying a commanding meta-ethical stand. Such a total programme comprises, on the one han…Read more
-
36Techno-Science and Religious Sin: Orthodox Theology and Heidegger (review)Sophia 47 (2): 107-128. 2008.This paper places certain religious ideas of Eastern Christianity about our relationship to nature critically against techno-scientific thinking and practice. Specifically, the two focal issues of the discussion are the concept of religious sin, on the one hand, and the peculiarly modern fusion of science and technology, resulting in the novel phenomenon of techno-science, on the other. Two corresponding theses are advanced: that of sin as an epistemic, and not as a moral, error, and that of the…Read more
-
8The Question of Platonic Division and Modern EpistemologyIn Marie-Élise Zovko & John Dillon (eds.), Platonism and Forms of Intelligence, Akademie Verlag. pp. 59-80. 2008.Plato's Theory of Forms and Goodman's Ridle of Induction
-
24Transnationals and Corporate Responsibility: A Polythetic View of Moral ObligationInternational Corporate Responsibility Series 4 1-16. 2009.This paper proposes a model of transnational corporations that calls for a non-unitary normative approach to ground the kind of corporate social responsibility that must, maximally, be ascribed to them. This involves injecting the notion of moral obligation into the picture, a particularly strict notion with an equally rigorous set of requirements that is not normally expected to be applicable to the case of big business operating internationally. However, if we are to be honest about the prospe…Read more
-
45Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of ExperienceZygon 44 (1): 169-196. 2009.Abstract.I offer a critical exposition and reconstruction of Michael Oakeshott's views on natural science. The principal aim is to enrich Oakeshott's modal schema by throwing light on it in terms of its internal consistency and by bringing to bear on it recent developments in philosophy in general and the philosophy of science in particular. The discussion brings out the special place reserved for philosophy, the crucial tenet of the separateness of these modes seen as Leibnizian monads as well …Read more
-
59The university as microcosmEducational Philosophy and Theory 41 (5): 553-574. 2009.This paper puts forward the model of 'microcosm-macrocosm' isomorphism encapsulated in certain philosophical views on the form of university education. The human being as a 'microcosm' should reflect internally the external 'macrocosm'. Higher Education is a socially instituted attempt to guide human beings into forming themselves as microcosms of the whole world in its diversity. By getting to know the surrounding world, they re-enact it intellectually. Such a re-enacting is a guiding theme in …Read more
-
18Foreword: Pathos for Ethics, Business Excellence, Leadership and Quest for Sustainability (review)Journal of Business Ethics 100 (1): 1-2. 2011.
-
28Leibniz' argument for innate ideasIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 281--289. 2011.
-
18Worldhood: Between Scholasticism and CosmopolitanismIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 589-602. 2013.
-
4The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Vol. 1 (edited book)Sage Publications. 2013.
-
2Special Issue: Papers from the Inaugural Meeting of ENPOSS (European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences), University of Copenhagen, September 21-23, 2012 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (3). 2013.
Metaxourgio, Greece