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    Nonneutralities in Science Funding: Direction, Destabilization, and Distortion
    with William N. Butos
    Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 18 (1). 2012.
    We treat science as a Hayekian social order whose distinctive emergent characteristic is the generation of knowledge. We model modern science as an institutional form that principally relies on publication with citation and its effects on individual reputation in order to study the possible effects of funding on science. We develop a taxonomy of three broad categories of effect: those having to do with the direction followed by scientific activity, those involving the operational and financial s…Read more
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    From Syllogism to Predicate Calculus
    Teaching Philosophy 17 (4): 293-309. 1994.
    The purpose of this paper is to outline an alternative approach to introductory logic courses. Traditional logic courses usually focus on the method of natural deduction or introduce predicate calculus as a system. These approaches complicate the process of learning different techniques for dealing with categorical and hypothetical syllogisms such as alternate notations or alternate forms of analyzing syllogisms. The author's approach takes up observations made by Dijkstrata and assimilates them…Read more