VOLUME 11 • 2012
RUSSELL AND THE NEWMAN PROBLEM REVISITED
ABSTRACT. In his 1927 Analysis of Matter and elsewhere, Bertrand Russell argued that we can successfully infer the structure of the external world from the structure of our explanatory schemes. While nothing guarantees that the intrinsic qualities of experiences are shared by their objects, he held ..
PRAGMATIC METHOD AND REALIST COMMITMENT
ABSTRACT. Herein I critically assess Rorty’s contention that inquiry should be guided by purely pragmatic considerations rather than by demands imposed by an objective “nonhuman” realm. On Rorty’s telling, to judge a belief or theory pragmatically successful requires that we invoke non truth-depende..
WESTERN MODELS OF INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY
ABSTRACT. The paper begins by exploring the concept of intercultural philosophy in the Western tradition and the operating assumption of moral universalism of liberal cosmopolitanism. The second part of the paper investigates the “politics of difference” inspired by Nietzsche and semiotic accounts o..
ON THE PROBLEM OF THE INTELLECTIVE SOUL IN ARISTOTLE
ABSTRACT. Aristotle held that the intellect (nous) has no organ, a view that appears to be in conflict with some of his other principles and, in particular, with his naturalism. It is argued in this paper that, in order to save the greatest number of his doctrines, Aristotle postulated the distincti..
DOUBTING ONE’S MIND
ABSTRACT. Generally doubting the efficacy of the human (including one’s own) mind is self defeating; the doubt is itself doubtful. pp. 11–13 Keywords: skepticism, mind, truth, knowledge, self reference, inconsistency {downloads} {slider Author's contact:} TIBOR R. MACHANTMachan@gmail.com..