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12A Cybernetic Analysis of Goal-DirectednessPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1976. 1976.The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the viability and fruitfulness of employing a cybernetic formulation for analyzing many important facets of goal-directed activity, both non-purposeful and purposeful. Unsuccessful past attempts at this program are examined. A reformulation of the cybernetic analysis is proposed which avoids the pitfalls of these attempts by constructing evidentiary tests for rather than a behavioral definition of goal-directedness. This new formulation enables one to…Read more
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2© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.The fornix is the primary subcortical output fiber system of the hippocampal formation. In children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, hippocampal volume reduction has been commonly reported, but few studies as yet have evaluated the integrity of the fornix. Therefore, we investigated the fornix of 45 school-aged children with 22q11.2DS and 38 matched typically developing children. Probabilistic diffusion tensor imaging tractography was used to reconstruct the body of th…Read more
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Teleological Clocks - Cybernetic Clouds: A Philosophical AnalysisDissertation, Washington University. 1973.
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1A theory of social injusticeIn David Stanley Caudill & Steven Jay Gold (eds.), Radical philosophy of law: contemporary challenges to mainstream legal theory and practice, Humanities Press. pp. 54--72. 1995.
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1Philosophical objections to programs as theoriesIn Martin Ringle (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence, Humanities Press. pp. 225--242. 1979.
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14Anti-Inequalitarianism: Democracy's Noncontestable PresuppositionPublic Affairs Quarterly 10 (1): 75-83. 1996.
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20David Lea , Property Rights, Indigenous People and the Developing World: Issues from Aboriginal Entitlement to Intellectual Ownership . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (1): 49-53. 2011.
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68Expunging evilThink 7 (19): 93-101. 2008.Has the time come finally to abandon the concept of evil?
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29Democracy and Social Injustice: Law, Politics, and PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1995.In this truly interdisciplinary study that reflects the author's work in philosophy, political science, law, and policy studies, Thomas W. Simon argues that democratic theory must address the social injustices inflicted upon disadvantaged groups. By shifting theoretical sights from justice to injustice, Simon recasts the nature of democracy and provides a new perspective on social problems. He examines the causes and effects of injustice, victims' responses to injustice, and historical theories …Read more
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8Language, Mind, and BrainPsychology Press. 1982.First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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6Varieties of Ecological DialecticsEnvironmental Ethics 12 (3): 211-231. 1990.A hierarchical ordering of approaches afflicts environmental thinking. An ethics of individualism unjustly overrides social/political philosophy in environmental debates. Dialectics helps correct this imbalance. In dialectical fashion, a synthesis emerges between conflicting approaches to dialectics and to nature from: Marxism (Levins and Lewontin), anarchism (Bookchin), and Native Americanism (Black Elk). Conflicting (according to Marxists) and cooperative (according to anarchists) forces both …Read more
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24Varieties of Ecological DialecticsEnvironmental Ethics 12 (3): 211-231. 1990.A hierarchical ordering of approaches afflicts environmental thinking. An ethics of individualism unjustly overrides social/political philosophy in environmental debates. Dialectics helps correct this imbalance. In dialectical fashion, a synthesis emerges between conflicting approaches to dialectics and to nature from: Marxism (Levins and Lewontin), anarchism (Bookchin), and Native Americanism (Black Elk). Conflicting (according to Marxists) and cooperative (according to anarchists) forces both …Read more
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17Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin: The Dialectical Biologist (review)Environmental Ethics 10 (3): 279-284. 1988.
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16On Cognitivism's explanations and limitationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (2): 249-250. 1978.
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43A bayesian marriage of science and politicsSynthese 46 (3). 1981.Some might say that there is a sense in which the very consideration of whether science is equated with rationality is obscene. For far too long science has been dealt with by philosophers within the confines of a protectionist, if not an apologist, policy. Putnam has provided a service by exposing some of the weaker links of the scientism mythology. I have tried to bolster that critique by indicating how, along Bayesian lines, value and holistic considerations could be used to help positively t…Read more
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12On Purposeful Systems. Russell L. Ackoff, Fred E. Emery (review)Philosophy of Science 43 (3): 456-458. 1976.
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1Narratives of Technology TransferBulletin of Science, Technology and Society 13 (2): 63-66. 1993.
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20The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts: An Essay on Political Theory, Its Inheritance, and the History of IdeasPhilosophical Books 29 (3): 141-144. 1988.
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32Book Review:Purposive Explanation in Psychology Margaret A. Boden; Behavior: The Control of Perception William T. PowersPhilosophy of Science 42 (1): 103-106. 1975.
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