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11Something Called the ‘False Dilemma Fallacy’ (FDF): A Return to Formalization Just This TimeInformal Logic 43 (2): 280-289. 2023.This work is a revision of the False Dilemma Fallacy (FDF). The formalized model (FM)of this fallacy has as its centerpiece a valid disjunctive syllogism, but the disjunctive premise is presumed to be false, thus making the argument unsound. Our revised model (FM2.0) focuses on the formal structure by comparing the given vs. the real argument, which is unsound because of its invalidity. This approach we believe is more pedagogically useful and a better explanation of the fallacious nature of the…Read more
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131We dwell in a world of physical things. When it comes to the environments that we live in, we usually become oriented to the place, and eventually feel at home in it. Facing death during war and pandemic are times of extreme disorientation, and we sometimes exhibit an impulse to flee. It is no wonder that in those desperate times, some with means and ability consider fleeing to a safer place. But are we morally obliged to act in ways that would ask us to sacrifice our deepest personal commitment…Read more
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129Fleeing from War or Pandemic, and Returning HomeID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs 11 78-80. 2021.
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267A Physicalist Theory for Managing Impediments to Democracy and Peace Building in the BalkansEidos - Časopis Za Filozofiju I Društveno - Humanistička Istraživanja 3 (3): 107-36. 2019.The post-conflict societies of Bosnia and Kosovo continue to be plagued by the deleterious effects of ethno-nationalism and ethnic enclaves. Unfortunately, this mix impedes both democracy and peace building within these Balkan countries. One way to promote such building is for these enclaves to collapse, thereby allowing multiethnic societies to develop. This essay proposes that enclaves be dealt with physically by ridding them of those evocative objects that help to create and maintain enclave…Read more
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351Riječ “intelektualac” francuskog je porijekla, nastala krajem 19. vijeka. Stvorena tokom afere Dreyfus, uglavnom se odnosi na one mislioce koji su spremni da interveniraju u javnom forumu, čak i ako to znači da sebe izlažu riziku (Le Sueur 2001:2). Teoretičari kao što su Edward Said, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Paul Sartre i Michael Waltzer dali su doprinos diskusiji o intelektualcima: intelektualca Said vidi kao kritički nastrojenog autsajdera, Ricoeur kao političkog edukatora, Sartre kao čovjeka od akc…Read more
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433Tarifa’s Exposition of the Kanun: Something for Sociologists and Philosophers AlikeSociological Analysis 1 125-27. 2007.
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1035Review of Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic (review)International Third World Studies Journal and Review 17 27-28. 2006.
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285Review of Richard Holbrooke, To End a War (review)International Third World Studies Journal and Review 10 77-79. 1998.
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349Review of Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books (review)International Third World Studies Journal and Review 15 23-25. 2004.
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41The role of the hyperintellectual in civil society building and democratization in the BalkansStudies in East European Thought 59 (3): 195-214. 2007.Although intellectuals have been a part of the cultural landscape, it is in post-conflict societies, such as those found in Kosovo and Bosnia, that there has arisen a need for an intellectual who is more than simply a social critic, an educator, a man of action, and a compassionate individual. Enter the hyperintellectual. As this essay will make clear, it is the hyperintellectual, who through a reciprocating critique and defense of both the nationalist enterprise and strong interventionism of th…Read more
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687Review of The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium (review)International Third World Studies Journal and Review 11 49-51. 2000.
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35A Sisyphean Tale: The Pathology Of Ethnic Nationalism And The Pedagogy Of Forging Humane Democracies In The BalkansStudies in East European Thought 57 (2): 139-184. 2005.
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178Coming to Grips with the Queer Festival and Deeper ConcernsBosnia Daily (September 8) 9. 2008.There has been a great deal of talk about the upcoming Queer Festival in Sarajevo. However, the discussion has taken on a bitter tone because some have made much of the fact that the organizers plan to hold the festival during the month of Ramadan. To hold the festival during that time, according to some pious Muslims, is a blasphemous act, one that is rude and disrespectful towards those of the faith. Of course, we must not forget that this festival is following on the heels of another festival…Read more
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232Book Review: The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor to Change Their LivesInternational Third World Studies Journal and Review 8 91-92. 1996.Bornstein, David. The Price of a Dream: The Idea of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor to Change Their Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 370 pp. $25.00 (cloth).
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281Epistemical and Ethical Troubles in Achieving Reconciliation, and then BeyondEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5 (1): 25-47. 2009.
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384A Participatory Approach to the Teaching of Critical ReasoningAPA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 94 (2): 114-116. 1995.
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981Justifying Coercive and Non-Coercive Intervention: Strategic and Humanitarian ArgumentsActa Analytica 16 (27): 133-52. 2001.The world's political and military leaders are under increasing pressure to intervene in the affairs of sovereign nations. Although the sovereignty of states and the corollary principle of nonintervention have been part of the foundation of international law, there is some latitude for states, as well as collective security organizations, to intervene in another state's domestic and foreign affairs, thus making sovereignty and the principle less than absolute. In this paper I first sketch a reas…Read more
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6Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled WorldPeter Lang. 1997.Blurred Visions fills an important gap in the literature on applied philosophy. It explores the relationship between ideological disputes and evidence and attempts to establish the ways in which the intractability of some ideological disputes is a function of the disputants adopting the notion of brute evidence, and the extent to which a change of epistemological venue might affect the resolution and prevention of ideological disputes. It declares that scientific theory and ideology are conceptu…Read more
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300Review of The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (review)Högre Utbildning 8 47-50. 2018.
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