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416Evidence and Testimony: Philip Henry Gosse and the Omphalos TheoryIn Harold Orel & George J. Worth (eds.), Six Studies in Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, University of Kansas Publications. pp. 69-90. 1962.
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359The paradox of induction and the inductive wagerPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 22 (4): 512-520. 1962.
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358Committees and consensus: How many heads are better than one?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 16 (4): 375-391. 1991.The first section of this paper asks why the notion of consensus has recently come to the fore in the medical humanities, and suggests that the answer is a function of growing technological and professional complexity. The next two sections examine the concept of consensus analytically, citing some of the recent philosophical literature. The fourth section looks at committee deliberations and their desirable outcomes, and questions the degree to which consensus serves those outcomes. In the fift…Read more
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140Mathematics and the Laws of NatureBulletin of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics 34 (2): 11-12. 1959.
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120La inducción: una paradoja y una apuestaRevista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 8 329-336. 1960.
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114The Case of the Athenian Stranger: Philosophy and World CitizenshipTeaching Philosophy 8 (2): 103-109. 1985.
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99Conmemoracion de WhiteheadIn Actas del Segundo Congreso Extraordinario Interamericano de Filosofía, Imprenta Nacional. pp. 158-164. 1962.
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88Commentary on" Affect, Agency, and Engagement"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (1): 25-26. 1994.
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83Choosing Emotions: The Late Sartre and the Early FlaubertBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 4 (2-3): 209-217. 1992.- none -
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81The Structure of Self-ReferenceIn André Mercier & Maja Svilar (eds.), Philosophes critiques d'eux-mêmes- Philosophers on Their Own Work- Philosophische Selbstbetrachtungen Philosophers on Their Own Work volume 2, Herbert Lang. pp. 9-15. 1976.
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74The Humanities in a Technological AgeIn Societal Issues, Scientific Viewpoints, American Institute of Physics. pp. 184-186. 1987.
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70To hell and back: Sartre on (and in) analysis with FreudSartre Studies International 11 (s 1-2): 166-176. 2005.On the back cover of the original French edition of Sartre's Le scénario Freud (The Freud Scenario), the promotional blurb poses the question: "Est-ce ici Sartre qui analyse Freud ou Freud qui analyse Sartre?" (Is Sartre analyzing Freud here, or is Freud analyzing Sartre?). We do not, for obvious reasons, have anything of Freud's on Sartre, but we do have quite a lot of Sartre on Freud, and great quantities of Sartre on Sartre. It has sometimes seemed to me that reading through everything that S…Read more
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61The functions of definition in sciencePhilosophy of Science 26 (3): 201-228. 1959.Definition is viewed in this paper as a cohesive element of theory, providing links between scientific constructs. The problem is approached first in terms of three orders--the historical, the logical, and the heuristic--in which the structure of science may be put together; a study of these is necessary if difficulties about priority of definition are to be resolved. The main part of the paper is devoted to an exercise in theory-construction which illustrates the five principal functions of def…Read more
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56Jusqu'au moment de la mort, tout le monde est immortelJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 5 (1): 39-45. 1993.none.
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47The Fading of the PostmodernBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 6 (3): 34-42. 1994.none
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40Coherence, System, and StructureIdealistic Studies 4 (1): 2-17. 1974.Systematic philosophy has for a long time now been disavowed as an objective or even as an interest by many professional philosophers whose view of their subject regards it as an activity of analysis rather than of construction. That this disclaimer should have become so common at a time when, in other disciplines, the idea of system was coming more and more into prominence suggests that philosophers and other scholars may somehow have been talking at cross-purposes. The opposition of analytic a…Read more
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38Science, computers, and the complexity of naturePhilosophy of Science 30 (2): 158-164. 1963.The relations between simplicity and economy, and between simplicity and complexity, are briefly discussed, and it is suggested that an appearance of simplicity may arise out of the matching of two complexities, e.g. in the perception of a simple color. Following out this idea, it is shown that scientific activity may be regarded as a matching of theoretical complexity against the complexity of nature, which leads to an expectation of an optimum theoretical complexity for successful scientific w…Read more
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36Subjectivity in the machineJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 18 (September): 291-308. 1988.
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