A. Theory of Knowledge
1. Problem No. 7, Analysis, vol. 16
(1955), pp. 4-5.
2. “On Prediction and Explanation,”
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 8 (1957), pp.
281-290.
3. “A Theory of Evidence,” Philosophy
of Science, vol. 25 (1958), pp. 83-94.
4. “Evidence in History and in the
Law,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol 56 (1959), pp.
561-578. With Carey B.
Joynt.
5. “The Legitimacy of Doubt,” The
Review of Metaphysics, vol. 31 (1959), pp. 226-234.
6. “Presuppositions of Knowledge,” Revue
Internationale de Philosophie
vol. 13 (1959), pp. 418-429.
7. “Randomness as a Means to Fairness,” The
Journal of Philosophy, vol. 56
(1959), pp. 967-968.
8. “A Factual Analysis of Counterfactual
Conditionals,” Philosophical
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9. “The Problem of a Logical Theory of
Belief Statements,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 27 (1960), pp.
88-95. Spanish tr. as
“El Problema de una Teoria Logica de los Enunciados de Creencia” in T.M. Simpson
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10. “Belief-Contravening
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W. Sellars, and K. Lehrer (ed.’s), New
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Sosa (ed.), Causation and Conditionals (Oxford, 1975), pp. 156-164.
11. “A
New Look at the Problem of Innate Ideas,” British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, vol. 17 (1966), pp. 205-218.
12. “The
Future as an Object of Research,” RAND Corporation Research Paper P-3593
(April, 1967).
13. “A
Methodological Problem in the Evaluation of Explanations,” Nous, vol. 2 (1968), pp. 121-129. With Brian Skyrms.
14. “Foundationalism, Coherentism, and the Idea of Cognitive
Systematization,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 71 (1974), pp.
695-708.
15. “The
Systematization of Knowledge,” Philosophy in Context, vol. 6
(1977), pp. 20-42.
16. “The
Systematization of Knowledge,” International Classification, vol.
4 (1977), pp. 73-75. (Note: This is a different paper
from the preceding.)
17. “Die Kriterien der Wahrheit” in
G. Skirbekk (ed.), Wahrheitstheorien (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977), pp. 337-390.
18. “L’analisi coerentista dei contrafattuali,” in
Claudio Pizza (ed.), Leggi di
natura, modalita, ipotesi: La Logica dei ragionamento
contrafattuale (Milano,
1978), pp. 114-129.
19. “Appearance
and Reality” in E. Sosa (ed.), Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick
M. Chisholm (Amsterdam: Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 7/8,
1980), pp. 123-144.
20. “Conceptual
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University of Minnesota Press; Midwest Studies in Philosophy,
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21. “Extraterrestrial
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Regis (ed.), Extraterrestrials (Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Press, 1985), pp. 83-116.
22. “Truth
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pp. 795-806. German
tr. “Wahrheit als ideale Kohaerenz” in L.B. Puntel (ed.), Der
Wahrheitsbegriff (Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1987), pp. 284-297. Spanish Translation in J. A. Nicolás
and M. J. Frapóli (eds.), Teorías
de la verdad en el siglo XX
(Madrid: Editorial Tecnos,
1997).
23. “How
Serious a Fallacy is Inconsistency?”
Argumentation, vol. 1 (1987), pp.
303-316.
24. “Die Kohaerenztheorie der
Wahrheit,” in H. Pauer-Studer et al. (eds.), Philosophie
zum Lesen (Wien: Herder, 1987), pp. 46-48.
25. “The
Limits of Cognitive Relativism,” translated into Slovak as “Hranice kognitivneko relativiznise,” Filozofia
(Boratislava), vol. 48 (1993), pp. 194-209.
26. “Razon y realidad” Numbres: Revista de Filosofîa, vol. 3
(1993), pp. 61-69.
27. “Reason
and Reality,” Proto-Soziologie, vol 6 (1994), pp. 14-27.
28. “Aspects
of the Coherence Theory of Truth” in M. F. Goodman and R. A. Snyder
(eds.), Contemporary
29. “Problems
of Philosophical Relativism” [in Russian], Voprosi
filosofi, no. 4 (1995), pp. 35-54.
30. “Some
Questions About the Nature of Fiction,” in Fiction Updated: Theories of Fictionality
and Contemporary Critical Theory, ed. by
31. “I
problemi di una teoria della
varitá basate sul consenso” in Giulio Severino (ed.), Identitá-Coerenze-Contictizione (Genova:Il Melangolo, 1996), pp.
141-156.
32. “The
Law of Logarithmic Returns and Its Implications,” in D. Ginev and R. S. Cohen (eds.), Issues and Images in the
Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997), pp.
275-287.
33. “Coping
with Cognitive Limitations: Problems of
Rationality in a Complex World,” Philosophical Exchange, No. 28
for 1997-1998, pp. 33-38.
34. “The
Role of Rhetoric in Rational Argumentation,” Argumentation, vol.
12 (1998), pp. 315-23.
35. “The
Deficits of Scepticism” Revista Patagómica de Filosofía, vol.
1 (1999), pp. 5-30.
36. “On
Learned Ignorance,” Southern Journal of Philosophy vol. 37 (1999),
pp. 479-93.
37. “Trapped
Within History?” Process Studies vol. 28 (1999),
pp. xyz.
38. “The
Limits of Cognitive Relativism” in M. Krausz
and R. Shusterman (eds.), Interpretation,
Relativism, and the Metaphysics of Culture (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1999).
39. “Über Zirkulantät und Regress beim
rationalen Geltingsbeweis” in G. L. Lueken (ed.), Formen der Argumentation
(Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag,
2000).
40. “Epistemic
Logic” in A Companion to Philosophical
Logic (
41. “Sosa
and Epistemic Justification” in John Greko
(ed.), Ernest Sosa and His Critics (
42. “On
the Ways and Vagaries of Fiction” in C. Perez and D. Greimann
(eds.) Wahrheit-Sein-Struktur (
43. “Methoden des Interpretieren” in
Alex Buhler (ed.), Hermeneutik (Heidelberg: Synchron, 2003), p. 177-90.
44. “The Fallacy of Respect Neglect,”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 18 (2004), pp. ???
45. “Specificity
Prioritization and the Primacy of the Particular,”
Homo Sapiens und Hom
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46. “Textuality, Reality, and the Limits of Knowledge,” The
Review of
47. “The
Sceptic’s ‘No Certainty’
Argument,” in Michael Rahnfeld (ed.), . . .
B. Metaphysics
1. “The Identity of Indiscernibles: A Reinterpretation,” The Journal of
Philosophy, vol. 52 (1955), pp. 152-155.
2. “A Reinterpretation of ‘Degrees
of Truth’,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol.
19 (1958), pp. 241-145.
3. “Logical Analysis in Historical
Application,” Methodos, vol. 11 (1959),
pp. 187-194.
4. “The Paradox of Buridan’s
Ass: A Fundamental Problem in the Theory
of Reasoned Choice,” Bucknell Review,
vol. 9 (1960), pp. 106-122.
5. “The Revolt Against Process,” The
Journal of Philosophy, vol. 59 (1962), pp. 410-417.
6. “Evaluative Metaphysics” in Metaphysics
and Explanation, ed. by W. H. Capitan and D. D. Merrill (Pittsburgh
(University of Pittsburgh Press), 1966), pp. 62-72.
7. “Truth and Necessity in Temporal
Perspective” in R. Gale (ed.), The
Philosophy of Time: A Collection of
Essays (London: MacMillan,
1968), pp. 183-220.
8. “On the Characterization of
Actions” in Myles Brand (ed.), The
Nature of Human Action, Scott Foresman (1970) pp.
215-220. Reprinted
in German translation in Georg Meggi (ed.), Analytische Handlungstheorie,
vol. 1 (Frankfurt am Main, 1977), pp. 1-7.
9. “The
Ontology of the Possible,” in M. Munitz (ed.), Essays
in Ontology (New York, 1973), pp. 162-83.
Reprinted in M. J. Loux (ed.), The Possible
and the Actual (
10. “The
Equivocality of Existence,” in
11. “Mondi Possibili
Non-Standard,” in Diego Marconi (ed.) La Formalizzatione
della dialetilica
(
12. “Blanshard and the Coherence Theory of Truth” in P. A.
Schilpp (ed.), The
Philosophy of Brand Blanshard (LaSalle, 1980),
pp. 574-588. (See also
Blanshard’s reply, pp. 589-600.)
13. “McTaggart’s Logical Determinism,” Idealistic
Studies, vol. 12 (1982), pp. 231-241.
14. “The
Roots of Objectivity” in D. O. Dahlstrom (ed.),
Realism (Washington, D.C.: ACPA Publications, 1984); vol. 59 of the Proceedings of
the American Catholic Philosophical Association, pp. 19-34.
15. “Reality
and Realism” in W. Leinfellner and W. Wuketits (eds.). The Tasks of
Philosophy (Wien:
Hoelder-Pichler Tempsky
Verlag, 1986; Proceedings of the 10th International
Wittgenstein Symposium), pp. 75-85.
16. “Chisholm’s
Ontology of Things,” The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, ed.
by Lewis E. Hahn (Chicago and LaSalle:
Open Court, 1997), pp. 187-199.
17. “How
Many Possible Worlds Are There?,” Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, vol. 59 (1999), pp. 403-420
18. “Optimalism
and Axiological Metaphysics,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 53
(2000), pp. 807-835.
19. “What
if Things Were Different?” Metaphysica, vol. 1 (2000), pp. 5-21.
20. “Optimalism
and Axiological Explanation in Metaphysics,” in Uwe
Meixner (ed.), Metaphysics in the
Post-Metaphysical Age (Wien: OBV & HPT, 2001), pp. 254-61.
21. “Die vielen Facetten der
Realität,” Information Philosophie, no. 3 (2000), pp. 7-17.
22. “Reason
and Reality” in Gerhard Preyer and George Peter
(eds.), The Contextualization of Rationality
(
23. “Immediate
Experience and Ontology,” Journal of Philosophical Research. Vol.
29 (2004), pp. 113-24.
24. “Nonexistents Then and Now,” The Review of
25. “Personal Experience and
Realistic Ontology in Pragmatic Perspective,” in J. C. Marek and M. E. Reicher
(eds.), Experience and Analysis (Wien: Obv. & Hpt., 2005), pp.
311-19.
26. “What Sort of Idealism is
Viable Today?,” Filosofski Alternative (
27. “Science and Reality,” Protosociology.
C. Philosophical Anthropology:
Philosophizing on the Human Condition
1. “Technological Progress and Human Happines,”
Philosophic Exchange (Annual published by SUNY,
Brockport), vol. 2 (Summer 1979) pp. 64-79.
2. “Luck,”
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol.
(1990), pp. 5-19. Reprinted in Daniel Statman (ed.), Moral Luck (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 141-166.
3. “Luck
and the Enigmas of Fate,” Philosophic Exchange: 1993-94. No’s
24-25 (1995), pp. 95-105.
4. “Predictive
Incapacity and Rational Decision,” European Review, vol. 3 (1995),
pp. 325-330.
5. “The
Ways of Luck,” U.S. Air Magazine, February, 1996 issue.
6 “The
Significance of Silence,” The European Review, vol. 6 (1998), pp.
91-95.
7. “Ueber einen zentralen Unterschied
zwischen Theorie und Praxis,” Deutsche
Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 47 (1999), pp. 171-182.
8. “Die Begründung von
Rationalität: Warum die Vernunft folgen?
in Stefan Gosepath (ed.), Motive, Gründe, Werte: Theorien praktischer Rationalität
(Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag,
1999), pp. 246-63.
9. “Los
enigmas
10. “Homo
Optans: On the
Human Condition and the Burden of Choice” Idealistic Studies, vol.
29 (2000), pp. 149-53.
11. “Amphibious
Man,” European Review, vol. 10 (2002), pp. 339-44. German translation “Der
amphibische Mensch,” in IABLIS: Jahrbuch
für europaeische Prozesse, vol. 1 (2002), pp. 195-200 and also Bonner
Philosophische Vorträge (Bonn, Bouvier Verlag, 2003).
D. Philosophy of Science and Technology
1. “Mr. Madden on Gestalt Theory,” Philosophy of
Science, vol. 20 (1953), pp. 327-328.
2. “Science
and Public Relations,” Science, vol. 118 (1953), pp. 420-421. with Herbert Curl.
3. “Some
Remarks on an Analysis of the Causal Relation,” The Journal of
Philosophy, vol. 51 (1953), pp. 239-241.
4. “Logical
Analysis of Gestalt Concepts,” British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, vol. 6 (1955), pp. 89-106. With Paul Oppenheim.
5. “On
Explanation in History,” Mind, vol. 68 (1959), pp. 383-388. With Carey B. Joynt.
6. “On
the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences,” Management Sciences,
vol. 6 (1959), pp. 25-52. With Olaf Helmer. Reprinted in Executive
7. “A
Problem in the Theory of Numerical Estimation,” Synthese,
vol. 12 (1960), pp. 34-39. An abstract
of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the International Congress for
Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science (Stanford, 1960), pp.
86-87.
8. “On
the Probability of Nonrecurring Events,” in Current Issues in the
Philosophy of Science, ed. by H. Feigl and G.
Maxwell.
9. “The
Concept of Randomness,”
Theoria, vol
27 (1961), pp. 1-11.
10. “The Problem of Uniqueness in History,” History and
Theory, vol. 1 (1961), pp. 150-162. With Carey B. Joynt. Reprinted in Studies in
the Philosophy of History, ed. by G. H. Nagel,
11. “On Historical Facts,” Methods, vol. 14 (1962),
pp. 11-15. With Carey
B. Joynt.
12. “The
Stochastic Revolution and the Nature of Scientific Explanation,” Synthese, vol. 14 (1962), pp. 200-215. A some-what expanded version of this paper
constitutes a chapter entitled “Fundamental Problems in the Theory of
Scientific Explanation” in Philosophy of Science: The Delaware
Seminar, II, ed. by B. Baumrin,
13. “Discrete State Systems, Markov Chains and Problems in the
Theory of Scientific Explanation and Prediction,” Philosophy of Science,
vol. 30 (1963), pp. 325-345.
14. “Generalization in Historical Explanation and Prediction in
History,” S. Radhakrishnan Souvenir Volume,
ed. by J.P. Atreya.
15. “Cause and Counterfactual,” Philosophy of Science,
vol. 34 (1966), pp. 323-340. With Herbert A. Simon.
16. “Remarks on the Verification of Scientific Theories,” Demonstration,
Verification, Justification, ed. by P. Devaus
(Paris and Louvain, 1968), pp. 160-165.
17. “Who’s Afraid of Big Science?,”
The Sciences, vol. 18 (1978), pp. 7-9.
18. “Some Issues Regarding the Completeness of Science and the
Limits of Scientific Knowledge,” in G. Radnitzky
and G. Anderson (ed.) The Structure and
Development of Science (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979), pp.
19-40.
19. “Methodological Issue in Science and Technology Forecasting,”Technological Forecasting and
Social Change, vol. 20 (1981), pp. 101-112.
Reprinted in German translation as “Einige Fragen
zur Abgeschlossenheit der Wissenschaft und Grenzen wissenchaftlicher
Erkenntnis,” in G. Radnitzky and G. Anderson, Voraussetzungen und
Grenzen der Wissenschaft (Tuebingen:
J.C.B. Mohr, 1981), pp. 21-46.
20. “The Unpredictability of Future Science,” in R.S. Cohen et al. (eds.), Physics, Philosophy,
and Psychoanalysis (
21. “The Limits of Science” in Paul Weingartner
and Hans Czermak (eds.), Epistemology and
Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of
the 7th International Wittgenstein Symposium (
22. “Extraterrestrial Science” Philosophia
Naturalis, vol. 21 (1984), pp. 400-424. Also in J. Pitt (ed.), Change and Progress
in Modern Science (
23. “Wie ist Naturwissenschaft
moeglich? Grundzuege eines
naturalistischen Idealismus,” Philosophy
of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology:
Proceedings of the 9th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Wien, 1985),
pp. 206-214. Also in P.
Hoyningen-Huene and G. Hirsch (ed’s),
Wozu Wissenschaftslphilosophie?
(
24. “Natural Science as a Human Artifact,” Yearbook of
the
25. “Baffling Phenomena” in Daniel Dahlstrom
(ed.), Nature and Scientific Method (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1991).
26. Axel Wüstehube,
“Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Ein
Gesprächt mit Nicholas Rescher,” Information Philosophie, Mai
1993, pp. 30-36.
27. “Nuestra ciencia
en tanto que nuestra,” Daimon: Revista de filosofia, vol. 6 (1993), pp. 1-9.
28. “Los
limites de la sciencia,”
Nombres:
Revista de Filosofia
(publication of the Faculty of Philosophy,
29. “Technological
Escalation and the Explanation Model of Natural Science.” (Sorites (
30. “The
Law of Logarithmic Returns and Its Implications,” in D. Ginev and R. S. Cohen (eds.), Issues and Images in the
Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997), pp.
275-87.
31. “Las
modalidades de la complejidad:
in Contrastes, Supplemento
3 (1998), pp. 223-43.
32. “Meaningless
Numbers” in D. Anapolitanos (ed.), Philosophy
and the Many Faces of Science (Lanham M.D.:
Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), pp.
158-171. Also in Proto Sociology,
vol. 12 (1998), pp. 92-112.
33. “The
Price of an Ultimate Theory,” Philosophia
Naturalis, vol. 37 (2000), pp. 1-20.
34. “Can
Computers Overcome Our Limitations?” in M. Carrier et.
al. (eds.) Science at the Century’s End (
35. “Credit for Makig a
Discovery,” Episteme, vol. 1 (2005), pp. 189-200.
E. Ethics, Value Theory
1. “Reasonableness in Ethics,” Philosophical
Studies, vol. 5 (1954), pp. 58-62.
2. “An Axiom System for Deontic
Logic,” Philosophical Studies, vol 9
(1958), pp. 24-30.
3. “Reasoned Justification of Moral
Judgments,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 55 (1958), pp.
248-255.
4. “Conditional Permission in Deontic
Logic,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 13 (1962), pp. 1-6.
5. “The Ethical Dimension of Scientific
Research” in Beyond the Edge of Certainty (ed. by R. Colodny,
6. “Practical Reasoning and
Values,” The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 16 (1966), pp. 121-136.
7. “La Dynamique
des Changements de Valeur,”
Analyse et Prévision (Paris), vol. 2 (1966), pp. 649-664.
8. “The Study of Value Change,” The
Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 1 (1967), pp. 12-23. Reprinted in
9. “Values and the Explanation of Behaviour,” The Philosophical Quarterly, vol.
17 (1967), pp. 130-136.
10. “Semantic
Foundations for Conditional Permission,” Philosophical Studies
vol. 18 (1967), pp. 56-61.
11. “Semantic
Foundations for the Logic of Preference,” in N. Rescher (ed.), The Logic of Decision and Action (
12. “What
is Value Change?” in
13. “The
Allocation of Exotic Medical Lifesaving Therapy,” Ethics, vol. 79
(1969), pp. 173-186. Reprinted in: (1) Question (January, 1970), pp.
13-31. Reprinted in: (2) T.L. Beauchamp
(ed.), Ethics and Public Policy (Englewood Cliffs, 1975), pp. 424-441;
(3) J.M. Humber and R.F. Almeder (eds.), Biomedical Ethics and the Law, (New
York, 1976), pp. 447-463; (4) S.J. Reiser et al. (eds.), Ethics in Medicine (Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1977); (5) Robert Hunt and John Arras, Ethical Issues in
Modern Medicine (Palo Alto, 1977); (6) T.L.
Beauchamp and L. Walters (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
(Encino, 1978), pp. 378-388; (7) R. Munson (ed.), Intervention and
Reflection: Basic Issues in Biomedical
Ethics (Belmont, 1979), pp. 409-418; (8) Steven E. Rhoads (ed.), Valuing
Life: Public Policy Dilemmas
(Boulder, 1980); (9) Natalie Abrams and Michael D.Buckner,
Medical Ethics (Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 1983); (10) Hisatake Kato and Nobuyulki Ieda (eds.), The
Bases of Bioethics. (Tokyo: Tokyo
University Press, 1988), pp. 291-329; (11) XYZ Pence (ed.), Classic Works on
Medical Ethics (New York?:
McGraw-Hill, 1997).
14. “La
Technica Delfos y los Valores,” Revista española de la opinión publica, vol. 21-22
(1970), pp. 227-241.
15. “Response
to Professors Fisher and Sosa” in The
Philosophical Forum, vol. 3 (1972), pp. 363-368. With Kurt Baier.
16. “Social
Values and Technological Change” in Edward A. Maziarz
(ed.), Value and Values in Evolution (New York: Gordon, Gordon, and Breach, 1979), pp.
163-78.
17. “The
Role of Values in Social Science Research” in Charles Frankel (ed.), Controversies
and Decisions: The Social Sciences and
Public Policy (New York, 1976), pp. 31-54.
18. “Values
in Science,” Proceedings of the Fifth InternationalConference
on the Unity of the Sciences:
19. “Moral
Issues Relating to the Economics of New Knowledge in the Biomedical
Sciences” in W.B. Bondeson
et. al. (eds.), New Knowledge in the Biomedical
Sciences (Dordrecht, Boston, and London: D. Reidel, 1982),
pp. 35-45.
20. Rationality
and Moral Obligation,” Synthese, vol. 72
(1987), pp 29-43.
21. “II
dilemma
22. “Leibniz,
Keynes, and the Rabbis on a Problem of Distributive Justice,” The
Journal of Philosophy, vol. 86 (1989), pp. 337-352.
23. “How
Wide is the Gap Between Facts and Values?” Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, vol. 50 (1990), Supplementary Volume (Fall
1990), pp. 297-319.
24. “Moral
Luck” in Daniel Statman (ed.), Moral Luck
(Albany: SUNY
Press, 1993), pp. 141-66.
25. “Moral
Objectivity: Against Moral
Relativism” in Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.), Rationalität, Realismus,
Revision, Vol. 23 of Perspecktiven der Analytischen Philosophie (Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter, 1999), pp. 90-102.
26. “Is
Reasoning About Values Viciously Circular?,” The
Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 35 (2001), pp. 5-12.
27. “In
Line of Duty: The Complexity of Military
Obligation,” in J. C. Ficarotta (ed.), The Leader Imparative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility
(West
28. “Nomic
Hierachies and Problems of Relativism” in
Mathias Gutmann et. al. (eds.) Kultur-Handlung-Wissenschaft (Weiterwist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2002), pp. 285-301.
29. “By the Standards of their
Day.” The Monist, vol. 86 (2003), pp.
469-80.
30.
“The Import and Rationale of Value Attribution,” Mind and
Society, vol. 4 (2005), pp. 115-27.
F. Social and Political Philosophy
1. “Notes on Preference, Utility, and
Cost,” Synthese, vol. 16 (1966), pp.
332-343.
2. “Problems of Distributive
Justice” in W. Sellars and J. Hospers (eds.), Readings
in Ethical Theory, 2nd ed. (New York, 1970), pp. 596-614.
3. “Welfare: Some Philosophical Issues,” Values
and Valuation, ed. by J. W. Davis (
4. “Some Observations on Social Consensus
Methodology,” Theory and Decision, vol. 3 (1972), pp. 175-179.
5. “The Environmental Crisis and the
Quality of Life” in Philosophy and Environmental Crisis, ed. by W.
T. Blackstone (Athens, Ga, 1973), pp. 90-104.
6. “Value-Consideration in Public Policy
Issues of the Year 2000” in J. R. Bright and M.E.F.
Schoeman (eds.), A Guide to Practical
Technological Forecasting (Englewood Cliffs, 1973), pp. 540-549.
7. “Morality in Government and
Politics,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association,
vol. 48 (1974), pp. 259-265.
8. “Ethical Issues Regarding the Delivery
of Health Care Services,”
9. “Technological
Progress and Human Happiness,” Philosophic Exchange, vol. 2 (1978;
summer issue), pp. 65-79.
10. “Economics
vs. Moral Philosophy,” Theory and Decision, vol
10 (1979), pp. 169-179.
11. “Social
Values and Technological Change: A Case
Study -- Social Welfare and Personal Happiness,” in E.A.
Maziarz (ed.) Value and Values in Evolution
(New York and London, 1979), pp. 163-178.
12. “The
Social Value of a Life,” in M. Bradie and K.
Sayre (eds.) Reason and Decision (Bowling Green, 1982: Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy,
vol. III), pp. 111-122.
13. “On
the Rationale of Governmental Regulation” in T.R.
Machan and M.B. Johnson
(eds.), Rights and Regulation (Cambridge MA: Ballinger, 1983), pp. 249-258.
14. “The
Canons of Distributive Justice” in J.P. Sterba
(ed.), Morality in Practice (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1983), pp. 33-40.
15. “Whose
Life Should We Save When Technology is Scarce?” Los Angeles Times,
16. “Playing
God: Whose Lives to Save with Modern
Technology?” The
Evening Sun (
17. “Moral
Obligation and the Refugee” in John Earman et. al. (eds.), Philosophical Problems of the
Internal and External Worlds (Pittsburgh and Konstanz: University of Pittsburgh Press and Universitätsverlag Konstanz,
1994), pp. 615-23.
18. “Is
Consensus Required for a Rational Social Order?” in Axel Wüstehube (ed.), Pragmatische
Rationalitätstheorien (Würzburg: Königshausen &
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