Philosophy is the science of the science and therefore the analysis of the assumptions underlying empirical inquiry. Given that these assumptions cannot possibly be examined or even identified on the basis of empirical data, it follows that philosophy is a non-empirical discipline. And given that our linguistic and cultural practices cannot possibly be examined or even identified except on the basis of empirical data, it follows that philosophical questions are not linguistic questions and...

Representative work from July-August 2019. Contents include:Is the Turing Test a good test of intelligence? )Who started the Cold War?Who was a better President? Eisenhower or JFK?Who was a better President? Nixon or LBJ?Technology-caused Job-shortages and the Need for Universal WelfareStatistics: Basic Principles and Theorems (Math/Statistics)Random Variables, Discrete Variables, Continuous Variables (Math/Statistics)Statisti...

It is said what BPD is and is not. In particular, it is made clear that BPD is based on splitting, as opposed to repression, and on this basis it is made clear why, although people afficted with BPD often behave psychopathically, they are not psychopaths.

Papers on accounting, business, economics, finance, and related topics.

Five distinctively modern epistemological words. Age-old espistemological problems are clearly stated and swifly resolved, and new and relevant ones are flagged.

Crisp, easy-to-understand lectures on logic.Table of contents:30 Principles of LogicMathematical LogicTrilingual Logic101 Principles of LogicDifferent kinds of Mathematical Functions: A DialogueFucntions, Bijections and Mapping-relationsLogic and Formal TruthRelations and Ordinal NumbersNine Kinds of NumberCausalityAnalyticityIs Mind an Emergent Property?Is Time-travel Possible?What i...

This book proves a new theorem in recursion theory with major consequences for logic, philosophy, AI, and epistemic engineering. The main result is that the class of all recursive, truth-preserving deductive logics is not recursively enumerable-no algorithm can list all possible formal systems. This strengthens Gödel: incompleteness does not just block any single system from capturing all truths; it prevents recursion itself from surveying the space of formal systems. The core phi...

Philosophy papers on a wide range of topics. Definitive answers are given to age-old questions, always with a deep knowledge of the relevant literature.Partial table of contents:Three Short Philosophy Papers on Human FreedomThe Paradox of Religions InstitutionsDifferent Perspectives on Religious Belief:O'Reilly v. Dawkins. v. James v. CliffordSchopenhauer on SuicideSchopenhauer's Fractal Conception of RealityTheodore Roszak's ...

The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and ...

These essays concern the different kinds of causation and their respective explanatory functions. Each of the following topics is discussed, in a clear and precise manner:*The relationship between causation and prediction*The relationship between causation and explanation*The relationship between prediction and explanation*The nature of counterfactual truth*The relationship between counterfactual conditionals and the corresponding past-tense indicati...

The empirical sciences make assumptions that they are not themselves capable of justifying. Philosophy justifies those assumptions; that is its job.

Religion is shown to be distinct from both rationalism and spiritualism but to combine elements of both. It is further shown that modern rationaiism, much like an unregulated economy, collapses into its own antithesis, it being one of the purposes of religion to prevent this collapse.