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6Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and ConditionsDe Gruyter. 2011.Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth; en emotive theory of truth; P.F. Strawson s performative theory, and N. Rescher s novel theory of a coherentist criterion of truth. The constructive parts include an analysis of the concept of a fact…Read more
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13The Literary Work of Art: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of LiteratureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 (2): 217-220. 1974.
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10Addressing Root-Causes of Global TerrorismJournal for Peace and Justice Studies 16 (2): 105-118. 2006.
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7Community and CommunitarianismPeter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. 1999."Community and Communitarianism" presents - and defends in detail - a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in -teleological communities, - cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community,…Read more
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6Nicholas J. Moutafakis' "Imperatives and their Logics" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (2): 283. 1978.
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30Some metaphysical presuppositions of sciencePhilosophy of Science 22 (3): 194-204. 1955.In order to determine what are the metaphysical presuppositions of science, we have to first define the terms ‘presupposition’ and ‘metaphysics’ or ‘metaphysical’. We shall begin with the former.Arthur Pap in his article Does Science Have Metaphysical Presuppositions? discusses two senses of the term. A presupposition may be a necessary condition: p presupposes q, dt = p implies q, i.e. not-g implies not-p. a premise or a rule of inference used in deriving a belief. Thus in this sense, p presupp…Read more
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23“Intrinsic” and “instrumental” good: An untenable dichotomy (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 4 (3): 172-190. 1970.
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5The content of this book provides a unified and coherent treatment of a number of important issues in the philosophy of language and logical theory.
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91The expression theory of art: A critical evaluationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 23 (3): 335-352. 1965.