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The Concepts of Truth in Science and Morality with Occasional Reference to Heidegger and KierkegaardDissertation, Yale University. 1987.In this dissertation I use recent developments in the philosophy of science and in moral philosophy to show that we are committed to two quite different conceptions of truth: the objective truth of science, which is based on the "meta-paradigm" of scientific realism, and the subjective truth of morality, which is based on the self's attempt to remain true to itself. ;In the first part I begin by giving an ontological grounding to the central claims of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutio…Read more
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9The Project of Self-Education in Plato’s Protagoras, Gorgias, and MenoThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3 290-297. 1998.One vigorous line of thought in contemporary moral philosophy, which I shall call ‘Neo-Aristotelianism,’ centers on three things: a rejection of traditional enlightenment moral theories like Kantianism and utilitarianism; a claim that another look at the ethical concerns and projects of ancient Greek thought might help us past the impasse into which enlightenment moral theories have left us; more particularly, an attempt to reinterpret Aristotle’s ethical work for the late twentieth-century so a…Read more
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104Extended phenotypes and extended organismsBiology and Philosophy 19 (3): 327-352. 2004.Phenotype, whether conventional or extended, is defined as a reflectionof an underlying genotype. Adaptation and the natural selection thatfollows from it depends upon a progressively harmonious fit betweenphenotype and environment. There is in Richard Dawkins' notion ofthe extended phenotype a paradox that seems to undercut conventionalviews of adaptation, natural selection and adaptation. In a nutshell, ifthe phenotype includes an organism's environment, how then can theorganism adapt to itsel…Read more
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64Niche Construction Theory and Human ArchitectureBiological Theory 6 (3): 283-289. 2011.In modern evolutionary theory, selection acts on particular genes and assemblages of genes that operate through phenotypes expressed in environments. This view, however, overlooks the fact that organisms often alter their environments in pursuit of fitness needs and thus modify some environmental selection pressures. Niche construction theory introduces a reciprocal causal process that modifies natural selection relative to three general kinds of environmental components: abiota, biota (other or…Read more
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1The Images of Enslavement and Incommensurability in Plato's MenoInterpretation 20 (2): 117-134. 1993.
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34Philosophers in the “Republic”: Plato’s Two Paradigms by Roslyn WeissAncient Philosophy 35 (1): 209-215. 2015.
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35Socrates amidst the academics?∗Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (2). 1991.No abstract
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Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |