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3The philosophy of myth in plotine and proclo. A comparative studyArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 5 77-82. 2010.This contribution resumes the main conclusions of a common work of philosophical comparatism between the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus, which is based on the examination of their respective reception of the traditional metaphysical use of anciant myths. This article consists in the examination of two important “definitions” of myth collected in the Enneads of Plotinus and Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic. On the basis of these analyses, it is possible to assert that, for Plotinus as fo…Read more
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Aperçu de la réception de la doctrine stoïcienne du mélange total dans le Néoplatonisme après PlotinRevue de Philosophie Ancienne 25 (2): 67-100. 2007.
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32Virtue Theories of ArgumentInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines. forthcoming.Virtue-based approaches have attracted significant recent interest in argumentation, including a recent anthology of Chinese translations of important articles in the field. In this article, adapted from the introduction to that anthology, we discuss the origins of virtue argumentation and some of the challenges it has faced, as well as attempt to provide an overview of recent work on the virtues and vices relevant to argumentation. In the final section we discuss the articles that were selected…Read more
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18Evolution of the Parietal Lobe in the Formation of an Enhanced “Sense of Self”Journal of Cognition and Culture 24 (1-2): 91-120. 2024.Recent neuropaleontological research suggests that the parietal lobe has increased in size as much as the frontal lobes in Homo Sapiens over the past 150,000 years, but has not provided a neuropsychological explanation for the evolution of human socialization or the development of religion. Drawing from several areas of research, (i.e., neurodevelopment, neuropsychology, paleoneurology, cognitive science, archeology, and anthropology), we argue that parietal evolution in Homo sapiens integrated …Read more
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2Seperating the intrinsic complexity and the derivational complexity of the word problem for finitely presented groupsMathematical Logic Quarterly 39 (1): 143-157. 1993.A pseudo-natural algorithm for the word problem of a finitely presented group is an algorithm which not only tells us whether or not a word w equals 1 in the group but also gives a derivation of 1 from w when w equals 1. In [13], [14] Madlener and Otto show that, if we measure complexity of a primitive recursive algorithm by its level in the Grzegorczyk hierarchy, there are groups in which a pseudo-natural algorithm is arbitrarily more complicated than an algorithm which simply solves the word p…Read more
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6You Cannot Judge an Argument by its ClosureInformal Logic 43 (4): 669-684. 2022.he best arguments are distinguished by more than logical validity, successful rhetorical persuasion, or satisfactory dialectical closure. Argument appraisal has to look beyond the premises, inferences, and conclusions; it must consider more than just the objections and replies, and resolutions that satisfy the arguers might not satisfy outside critics. Arguers and their contexts can be important factors for assessing arguments. This conclusion is reached by considering several scenarios in which…Read more
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11You Cannot Judge an Argument by its ClosureInformal Logic 43 (4): 669-684. 2022.he best arguments are distinguished by more than logical validity, successful rhetorical persuasion, or satisfactory dialectical closure. Argument appraisal has to look beyond the premises, inferences, and conclusions; it must consider more than just the objections and replies, and resolutions that satisfy the arguers might not satisfy outside critics. Arguers and their contexts can be important factors for assessing arguments. This conclusion is reached by considering several scenarios in which…Read more
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7The Aftermath of Syllogism: Aristotelian Logical Argument from Avicenna to Hegel ed. by Marco Sgarbi and Matteo CosciReview of Metaphysics 72 (2): 401-403. 2018.
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4Feminist Theology, Men and the Goddess: Reminiscences and OpinionsFeminist Theology 11 (1): 27-34. 2002.This article contains an account of Asphodel's early work on goddesses and related topics, and its influence on men as well as women. I show how my own spiritual awareness and my understanding of the Goddess has developed through discussions with her. I also indicate why I have a strong interest in and liking for feminist theology despite not being a theologian.
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16Justice publique et justice privéeArchives de Philosophie du Droit 41 149-162. 1997.Notion de justice. Définitions justice publique, justice privée. Place et diversité de la justice privée. Dualisme ou unité de la justice publique et de la justice privée? I. Dissemblances. A. - Rapports d'antagonisme. B. - Raisons historiques. C. - Origines différentes de la fonction juridictionnelle exercée. II. - Convergences. A. - Influence du privé sur la justice publique. B. - Influence du public sur la justice privée. C. - Perspectives communes. Juridicité. Finalité poursuivie
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2A filosofia do mito em Plotino e Proclo: um estudo comparativoArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 5 77-82. 2010.This contribution resumes the main conclusions of a common work of philosophical comparatism between the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus, which is based on the examination of their respective reception of the traditional metaphysical use of anciant myths. This article consists in the examination of two important “definitions” of myth collected in the Enneads of Plotinus and Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic. On the basis of these analyses, it is possible to assert that, for Plotinus as fo…Read more
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4A filosofia do mito em Plotino e Proclo: um estudo comparativoArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 5 77-82. 2010.This contribution resumes the main conclusions of a common work of philosophical comparatism between the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus, which is based on the examination of their respective reception of the traditional metaphysical use of anciant myths. This article consists in the examination of two important “definitions” of myth collected in the Enneads of Plotinus and Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic. On the basis of these analyses, it is possible to assert that, for Plotinus as fo…Read more
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5Psychological and neuroscientific data suggest that a great deal, perhaps even most, of our reasoning turns out to be rationalizing. The reasons we give for our positions are seldom either the real reasons or the effective causes of why we have those positions. We are not as rational as we like to think. A second, no less disheartening observation is that while we may be very effective when it comes to giving reasons, we are not that good at getting reasons. We are not as reasons-responsive as w…Read more
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1Calling an argument “merely academic” impugns its seriousness, belittles its substance, dis-misses its importance, and deflates hope of resolution, while ruling out negotiation and compromise. How-ever, “purely academic” argumentation, as an idealized limit case, is a valuable analytical tool for argumen-tation theorists because while the telos of academic argumentation may be cognitive, it is cognitive in the service of a community, which, in turn, is a community in the service of the cognitive…Read more
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6Traduction des textes sur la doctrine stoïcienne du mélange totalRevue de Philosophie Ancienne 24 (2): 61-92. 2006.
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24Angelic Devil’s Advocates and the Forms of AdversarialityTopoi 40 (5): 899-912. 2020.Is argumentation essentially adversarial? The concept of a devil's advocate—a cooperative arguer who assumes the role of an opponent for the sake of the argument—serves as a lens to bring into clearer focus the ways that adversarial arguers can be virtuous and adversariality itself can contribute to argumentation's goals. It also shows the different ways arguments can be adversarial and the different ways that argumentation can be said to be "essentially" adversarial.
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4If, What-If, and So-WhatThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 17 20-28. 1998.With the possible exception of completely formal exercises in logic, philosophy is thoroughly metaphorical and largely conditional. Moreover, the purposes served by metaphors and conditionals in it are similar. Metaphors ask us to imagine the world in a new way, while conditionals may ask to imagine a new world. Yet some conditionals and metaphors are incompatible. There are limits to how metaphors can occur in conditionals, and how conditionals can themselves be metaphors. Specifically, only ce…Read more
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10Psychological and neuroscientific data suggest that a great deal, perhaps even most, of our reasoning turns out to be rationalizing. The reasons we give for our positions are seldom either the real reasons or the effective causes of why we have those positions. We are not as rational as we like to think. A second, no less disheartening observation is that while we may be very effective when it comes to giving reasons, we are not that good at getting reasons. We are not as reasons-responsive as w…Read more
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5Anthony Appiah. Assertion and conditionals. Cambridge studies in philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge etc. 1985, xiii + 265 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 52 (4): 1051-1052. 1987.
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7Richard Routley with Val Plumwood, Robert K. Meyer, and Ross T. Brady. Relevant logics and their rivals. Part I. The basic philosophical and semantical theory. Ridgeview Publishing Company, Atascadero, Calif., 1982, xv + 460 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 54 (1): 293-296. 1989.
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5Robert K. Meyer. A farewell to entailment. Foundations of logic and linguistics, Problems and their solutions, edited by Georg Dorn and P. Weingartner, Plenum Press, New York and London1985, pp. 577– 636 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 55 (1): 352-353. 1990.
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1The Aftermath of Syllogism: Aristotelain Logical Argument from Avicenna to Hegel (review)Review of Metaphysics 72 (2). 2018.
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3Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral PsychologyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3): 444-445. 2003.Book Information Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology. Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology Jeanette Kennett New York Oxford University Press 2001 viii + 229 Hardback US$45 By Jeanette Kennett. Oxford University Press. New York. Pp. viii + 229. Hardback:US$45
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14The attraction of the ideal has no traction on the real: on adversariality and roles in argumentArgumentation and Advocacy. 2018.If circumstances were always simple and all arguers were always exclusively concerned with cognitive improvement, arguments would probably always be cooperative. However, we have other goals and there are other arguers, so in practice the default seems to be adversarial argumentation. We naturally inhabit the heuristically helpful but cooperation-inhibiting roles of proponents and opponents. We can, however, opt for more cooperative roles. The resources of virtue argumentation theory are used to…Read more
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11What Virtue Argumentation Theory Misses: The Case of Compathetic ArgumentationTopoi 35 (2): 451-460. 2016.While deductive validity provides the limiting upper bound for evaluating the strength and quality of inferences, by itself it is an inadequate tool for evaluating arguments, arguing, and argumentation. Similar remarks can be made about rhetorical success and dialectical closure. Then what would count as ideal argumentation? In this paper we introduce the concept of cognitive compathy to point in the direction of one way to answer that question. It is a feature of our argumentation rather than m…Read more
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