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Science and the source of legitimacy in democratic regimesIn Pierluigi Barrotta & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), Science and democracy: controversies and conflicts, John Benjamins. 2018.
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14The Meaning of >Craft< (τέχνη) in Plato's Early PhilosophyArchiv für Begriffsgeschichte 49 7-30. 2007.The aim of craft-analogies in Plato's early dialogues is to put forward a theory of knowledge in which only the content of intentional processes can be known. I will argue that, with this goal in mind, Plato offers an idea of craft that differs from, and is even opposed to the views of his time, as well as to those of our own day, by changing the prevailing definition of craft—from the expertise of means to the expertise of ends. I will address the far-reaching consequences of this shift. Part 1…Read more
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251Review of Hila Naot, Raft on the Open Sea—Man and the World in Jan Patočka’s (1907–1977) Phenomenological Philosophy, (in Hebrew) Jerusalem: Carmel 2020, 536 pp. 107 shekels (review)Studies in East European Thought 73 (3): 381-383. 2021.review of Hila Naot, Raft on the open sea—mand and the world in Jan Patocka
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11Genera and species vs. laws of nature two epistemic frameworks and their respective ideal worldsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 81 6-15. 2020.This paper seeks to exhibit and explain, by way of comparison, two ideal kinds of knowledge: knowledge based on classifications according to genera and species, as in Aristotelianism and common sense, and scientific knowledge based on the application of laws of nature. I will proceed by attempting (1) to determine the role that presuppositions play in knowledge in general by means of the distinction between content and form; (2) to describe and explain the main features of both ideal forms of kn…Read more
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105The Ontological Argument ReconsideredJournal of Philosophical Research 15 279-310. 1990.The ontological argument--first proposed by St. Anselm and subsequently deveIoped by Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel and Marx--furnishes a key to understanding the relationship between thought and reality. In this article we shall focus on Hegel’s attitude towards the ontological argument as set out in his Science of Logic, where it appears as a paradigm of the relationship between thought and reality. It should be remarked, moreover, that our choice of the subject was not random and that it was…Read more
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1The Human Origins of Fortuna in Machiavelli's ThoughtHistory of Political Thought 11 (1): 21. 1990.
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471Intellectualisme et causalité chez Hegel, et les limites de la science moderneArchives de Philosophie 1 (1): 55-75. 2005.L’objet de cet article est double: 1) montrer que la Science de la logique de Hegel est incapable de rendre compte de la nature de la relation de causalité. Hegel explique plutôt la relation de causalité en la réduisant à une relation de conditionnalité. 2) Soutenir ensuite que cet échec n’est pas le propre de l’hégélianisme mais qu’il est le résultat inévitable de tout effort intellectuel pour comprendre la relation de causalité, quand on ne prend pas en compte la contribution de la perception …Read more
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17The sources of Wittgenstein’s negation of the knowing subjectSemiotica 113 (1-2): 159-170. 1997.
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124The modern misunderstanding of Aristotle's theory of motionJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 26 (1). 1995.In the Physics, Aristotle defines motion as 'the actuality of what is potentially, qua potential' (Phys. 201b5). This definition has been interpreted countless times and has been the subject of heated controvery. At issue today is whether ὲντελέχεια refers to motions as a process or a state. Accordingly, if the idea of ὲντελέχεια is believed to refer to a process, it is translated to mean actualization. If on the other hand it is taken to refer to a state, it is translated as meaning actuality…Read more
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169The Belief in Reality and the Reality of BeliefGiornale di Metafisica 17 (1-2): 71-85. 1995.The ontological arguments (OA) discussion is about the relations between essence and existence, and between analytic and synthetic judgments. Rationalists asserts that essence determines existence. Empiricists assert that existence cannot be deduced from thought. However, both made the error of disconnecting the objective existence of God from subjective thought about Him. We propose to demonstrate two interconnected theses: A) In the course of its historical development, the OA did not manage t…Read more
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12Bentham's 'two theses' argumentManuscrito 27 (2): 405-430. 2004.Bentham argues that Nature has placed mankind under the governance of pain and pleasure. They determine what we ought to do, as well as what we shall do. Bentham tries to answer two different questions. The first is whether people are actually looking for pleasure. It is a cognitive question about human nature, formulated at a meta-ethical level. The second is whether people ought to look for pleasure. The question is formulated on the ethical level and Bentham asserts that people ought to look …Read more
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262The Ontological Argument ReconsideredJournal of Philosophical Research 15 279-310. 1990.The ontological argument- proposed by St. Anselm and developed by Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Marx- furnishes a key to understanding the relationship between thought and reality. In this article, we shall focus on Hegel’s attitude towards the ontological argument as set out in his Science of Logic, where it appears as a paradigm of the relationship between thought and reality. It should be remarked, moreover, that our choice of the subject was not random and that it was selected for the…Read more
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50The Incongruity Between Knowledge and Valuation in David Hume's Theory of Knowledge a Reconsideration of Hume's SkepticismPhilosophical Inquiry 17 (3-4): 1-12. 1995.
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85Relation and object in Plato's approach to knowledgeTheoria 53 (2-3): 141-159. 1987.THE aim of this paper is to explain a paradox in Plato's philosophy. On the one hand, Plato reduces virtue to knowledge; on the other, he rejects the possibility of knowledge or at least has serious doubts that it exists. I shall propose in this paper that the definition of virtue as knowledge is a logical outcome of Plato's denial of the particular aspect of knowledge as cognitive relation. This paper may also be considered as an attempt to resolve the Hintikka‐Santas polemic about whether ther…Read more
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35Le rejet de la connaissance de la connaissance, la these centrale du Charmide de PlatonRevue Philosophique De Louvain 106 (4): 663-693. 2008.
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42The torn human activity: A response to Alfred guy's “the role of aristotle'spraxis today” (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (2): 231-234. 1993.
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The bidimensionality of mind: Essence and existence in Kant and HegelArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 82 (3): 332-348. 2000.
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102Praxis and poesis in Aristotle's practical philosophyJournal of Value Inquiry 24 (3): 185-198. 1990.All the paradoxes in the Engberg-Pedersen interpretation and all the present-day discussions about whether energeia is an activity or a state, are not, in my opinion, the result of a defective reading of Aristotle but, rather, the influence of the prevailing values of our industrial society. These values - held, as it seems, by these commentators - are conspicuously teleological: they prevent us from grasping the qualitative difference between praxis and poesis and between energeia and kinesis. …Read more
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59The Hermeneutics of the Young Marx: According To Marx's Approach To the Philosophy of Democritus and EpicurusDiogenes 37 (148): 28-41. 1989.In the History of Philosophy, the atomistic physics of Epicurus and of Democritus have been considered as very similar.1 Con trary to the more conventional view, Marx considers this similarity
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49Circularity of Thought in Hegel's LogicReview of Metaphysics 44 (1). 1990.HEGEL says that "when enquiry is made as to the kind of predicate belonging to [a] subject, the act of judgement necessarily implies an underlying concept [Begriff]; but this concept is expressed only by the predicate." According to this, some concept of the subject must precede predication. This circularity can be formulated as follows: If the statement is the "factory" in which concepts are produced, how is it that the concepts precede the statement and are not merely produced within it in the…Read more
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211Subject and Consciousness: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Self-ConsciousnessRowman & Littlefield. 1989.Title on spine: Subject & consciousness.
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