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    Censorship, the internet, and the child pornography law of 1996: A critique (review)
    Ethics and Information Technology 1 (2): 105-115. 1999.
    After describing the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) of 1996, I argue that the Act ought to be significantly amended. The central objections to CPPA are (1) that it is so broad in its main proscriptions as to violate the First Amendment rights of adults; (2) that it altogether fails to provide minors and their legal guardians with the privacy rights needed to combat the harms associated with certain classes of prurient material on the Internet; and, (3) that the actual rate of technologi…Read more
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    Validity, communication, and interpretation
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 22 (2). 1990.
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    Values and ScientistsJohn A. White
    Isis 75 (4): 732-732. 1984.
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    Rather than just offer background readings or a survey of views on a subject, as traditional anthologies do, this volume tries to engage the reader’s active participation in understanding how philosophy came to be split between analytic and continental approaches and in finding ways to reconcile the two. It does so by tracing the history of philosophy as a perennial contest between two opposing world views: one that relates change to an underlying structure of invariance, and another that sees c…Read more
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  • Philosophy and Knowledge Organization: A Kantian Perspective
    Dissertation, Temple University. 1985.
    The main thesis, developed in Chapter 3, is that Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is most comprehensively interpreted as addressing the possibility of knowledge organization . ;Chapter 1 serves as a survey of contemporary work in knowledge organization, and concludes that recent attempts to articulate a philosophical theory of knowledge organization are lacking. ;In Chapter 2, the import of knowledge organization is recovered by recourse to a sketch of the role which it played in the development o…Read more