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174The politics of national diversitySalisbury Review 5 33--37. 1987.On the consequences of the interplay between the diversity of ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic groupings in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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298A theory of AustriaIn Nyiri J. N. (ed.), From Bolzano to Wittgenstein: The Tradition of Austrian Philosophy, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. pp. 11-30. 1986.The present essay seeks, by way of the Austrian example, to make a contribution to what might be called the philosophy of the supranational state. More specifically, we shall attempt to use certain ideas on the philosophy of Gestalten as a basis for understanding some aspects of that political and cultural phenomenon which was variously called the Austrian Empire, the Habsburg Empire, the Danube Monarchy or Kakanien.
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Sprache, Logik und Philosophie: Akten des vierten internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, 28. August bis 2. September 1979, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Österreich) = Language, logic, and philosophy: proceedings of the fourth International Wittgenstein Symposium, 28th August to 2nd September 1979, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria) (edited book, review)D. Reidel Publishing Company [distributor for the US]. 1980.
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392The Reality of Brands: Towards an Ontology of MarketingAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology 58 313-360. 1999.The ontology of marketing, particularly the question of what products and brands are, is still largely unexplored. The ontological status of brands hinges on their relationship with products. Idealists about brands see perceptual or cognitive acts of consumers grouped under the heading ‘brand awareness’ or ‘brand image’ as constitutive for the existence of brands so that, in their view, tools of the marketing mix can influence relevant mental dispositions and attitudes. Brand realists, on the ot…Read more
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33Toward a Unified Theory of Value: From Austrian Economics to Austrian PhilosophyAxiomathes 27 (5): 531-559. 2017.Under one understanding of marketing, this discipline focuses on the creation of customer value. Although nobody doubts today that value is subjective and it emerges from consumer judgment, the causality is less clear. Do producers bring about value, or do consumers receive ‘raw’ products that only attain value in their estimation? Or, do producers and consumers co-create value as much of contemporary marketing theory assumes? Recent works on value creation, the building of customer relationship…Read more
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375On Creativity and the Philosophy of the Supranational StateIn Tamás Demeter (ed.), Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy: In Honour of J.C. Nyíri, Brill. pp. 25-39. 2004.Building on the writings of Wittgenstein on rule-following and deviance, Kristóf Nyíri advanced a theory of creativity as consisting in a fusion of conflicting rules or disciplines. Only such fusion can produce something that is both intrinsically new and yet capable of being apprehended by and passed on to a wider community. Creativity, on this view, involves not the breaking of rules, or the deliberate cultivation of deviant social habits, but rather the acceptance of enriched systems of rules…Read more
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41Austrian Economics (Routledge Revivals): Historical and Philosophical Background (edited book)Croom Helm / Routledge. 1986.First published in 1986 and reprinted in 2010 in the Routledge Revivals series, this book presents the first detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in the liberal political theory of the nineteenth-century Hapsburg empire, and a study of the relations between the general theory of value underlying Austrian economics and the new economic approa…Read more
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1331The existence of a Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) is not a given, as arguments contra are in balance with arguments pro. An intellectual tradition consists of a style of thought and of a worldview, as its formal and material modes. The former defines the way knowledge is appropriated, processed, and passed on whereas the latter amounts to its applications to various regions of reality – God, man, morality, society, the Church, etc. A model of the CIT is proposed that consists of principl…Read more
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9Wittgenstein tra Austria e Inghilterra (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1): 213-215. 1981.
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32Philosophie der frühen neuzeit in den böhmischen ländern (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (1). 2009.Philosophy in the historical Kingdom of Bohemia has never received much attention in the Anglophone world. Yet in the early modern period, Bohemia and especially Prague were an extraordinarily fertile ground for philosophical thought. Stanislav Sousedík of Charles University in Prague is now the foremost expert on this region and period. His Philosophy in the Bohemian Lands between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment appeared in Czech in 1997 and is now available in a nearly identical German t…Read more
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43Ethics and Economics: Towards a New Humanistic Synthesis for Business (review)Journal of Business Ethics 99 (1). 2011.The Encyclical-Letter Caritas in Ventate by Pope Benedict XVI suggests to advance towards a new conceptualization of the tenuous relationship between economics and ethics, proposing a "new humanistic synthesis" Where social encyclicals have traditionally justified policy proposals by natural law and theological reasoning alone, Caritas in Ventate gives great relevance to economic arguments. The encyclical defines the framework for a new business ethics which appreciates allocative and distributi…Read more
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Thinking, Picturing, and Story-TellingIn Werner Leinfellner (ed.), Language and Ontology, Hölder-pichler-tempsky / Reidel. pp. 218--221. 1982.
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108Knowing That One Knows and the Causal Theory of KnowledgeInternational Studies in Philosophy 13 (1): 43-59. 1981.
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4Sprache, Logik und Philosophie: Akten des vierten internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, 28. August bis 2. September 1979, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Österreich) = Language, logic, and philosophy: proceedings of the fourth International Wittgenstein Symposium, 28th August to 2nd September 1979, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria) (edited book, review)D. Reidel Publishing Company [distributor for the US]. 1980.
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23The Study Of Business As A Liberal Art? Toward An Aristotelian ReconstructionCatholic Social Science Review 14 193-216. 2009.The prevailing model of teaching business administration at Catholic universities does not sufficiently differentiate Catholic institutions; it does not live up to the expectations of the Church; and it underplays the potential of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition to elucidate the sphere of business. Attempting to integrate business administration into the “liberal arts” is a misguided approach, for barring an implementation of the historical liberal arts curriculum there is no non-arbitrary w…Read more
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46Hybrid Forms of Business: The Logic of Gift in the Commercial World (review)Journal of Business Ethics 100 (S1): 109-123. 2011.Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate advances a positive view of businesses that are hybrids between several traditional categories. He expects that the “logic of gift” that animates civil society infuses the market and the State with relations typical for it—reciprocity, gratuitousness, and solidarity. His theological rationale offers an answer to two questions that have largely remained open in the literature—why hybridization of business occurs and why it is desirable. A rational reconstructio…Read more
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25Wittgenstein tra Austria e Inghilterra (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1): 213-215. 1981.
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St. Norbert CollegeRegular Faculty
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Social Science |
General Philosophy of Science |