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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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13The 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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217Review 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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10Genera 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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16The use of error as an argument in the language of human sciences: The dogmatic use of errorSemiotica 120 (1-2): 139-160. 1998.
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48The Myth of Protagoras and Plato's Theory of MeasurementHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (4). 1987.
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11The Bounds of Freedom: About the Eastern and Western Approaches to FreedomPeter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. 1995.The Straniak Philosophy Prize 1995 awarded by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation Sarnen/Switzerland This book explores Eastern and Western ideas of freedom and reveals the essential differences, as well as similarities, between Eastern and Western cultural values. Inspired by an ancient Greek myth recounted by Protagoras, the authors suggest that three important values tend to motivate human activity: achieving pleasure, achieving results, and obeying moral law. Then, drawing on intell…Read more
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17Plato and Protagoras: Truth and Relativism in Ancient Greek PhilosophyLexington Books. 1999.Are human beings antithetical in nature? Is there a radical difference between pleasure, efficiency, and moral good, or is the conflict only imaginary? These have traditionally been considered the central questions of Plato's most vivid dialogue, the Protagoras. Many interpreters have seen this dialogue as a confrontation between the moralist and the relativist . This dichotomy is manifest when Plato and Protagoras discuss theoretical questions concerning either knowledge of facts or knowledge o…Read more
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165Time, Understanding, and WillDiogenes 48 (190): 3-21. 2000.In the passage from the Enneads devoted to discussing and defining the nature of time, it is written that first one must experience eternity, which, as everyone knows, is the model and archetype of time. This initial warning, which is especially serious because we trust in its sincerity, appears to wipe out all hope of finding common ground with its author.Jorge Luis Borges, History of EternitySo let us leave the Platonists to wander off down a blind alley. Poor simpletons, they think they will …Read more
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183The moral intellectualism of Plato’s SocratesBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 13 (1): 1-14. 2008.Commentators do not take Socrates’ theses in the Hippias Minor seriously. They believe it is an aporetic dialogue and even that Socrates does not mean what he says. Hence they are unable to understand the presuppositions behind Socrates’ two interconnected theses: that those who do wrong and lie voluntarily are better than those who do wrong unintentionally, and that no one does wrong and lies voluntarily. Arguing that liars are better than the unenlightened, Socrates concludes that there are no…Read more
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43Toward a Rationality of Emotions (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (2): 145-146. 1997.
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34On Justice and Legitimation. A Critique of Jürgen Habermas' Concept of "Historical Reconstructivism"Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 44 (2). 1990.
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19Una crítica del problema mente-cuerpo en la tradición analíticaAnuario Filosófico 40 (90): 647-672. 2007.Everybody knows, by experience, that the mind can "determine" the body to motion and rest. However, nobody knows how this phenomenon is possible. This ignorance is a consequence of the limitations of our categories of thought. The awareness of our ignorance will lead to understand why we are unable to fathom the link between body and mind.
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12Book Reviews (review)The European Legacy 3 (5): 117-161. 1998.Mind and World. By John McDowell. 191 pp. n.p.g. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. By Albert Boime The Princeton Series in Nineteenth‐Century Art, Culture and Society xv + 234 pp. $19.95, £14.95 paper. Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised. By Harvey Mitchell 290 pp. $54.95, £35.00 cloth. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. By Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, 2d ed.. 190pp., $12.95 paper. The European Comm…Read more
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103The 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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16The sources of Wittgenstein’s negation of the knowing subjectSemiotica 113 (1-2): 159-170. 1997.
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121The 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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146The 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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232The 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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48The 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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82Relation 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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