Part II: Applications of Process-Based Theories: Process and Emergence: Normative Function and Representation

Kim's argument appears to render causally efficacious emergence impossible: Hume's argument appears to render normative emergence impossible, and, in its general form, it precludes any emergence at all. I argue that both of these barriers can be overcome, and, in fact, that they each constitute reductions of their respective underlying presuppositions. In particular, causally efficacious ontological emergence can be modeled, but only within a process metaphysics, thus avoiding Kim's argument, and making use of non-abbreviatory forms of definition, thus avoiding Hume's argument. I illustrate these points with models of the emergent nature of normative function and of representation.     

Introduction: Levinas and Education: The Question of Implication

Studies in Philosophy and Education -     

The Tree of Knowledge: Good and Evil: Conflicting Interpretations

This article examines a debate concerning the exegesis of the story of the garden of Eden and the tree of knowledge, as told in Genesis. Two contradictory interpretations of the garden narrative are examined, the first as the story is elucidated by the psychoanalyst and social theorist Erich Fromm and the alternative interpretation by the Talmudic scholar and philosopher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. This article compares and contrasts their exegeses and the respective implications of each view. The controversy, which has profound implications, reflects differences in world views concerning the good life, autonomy and relatedness, assertion and submission, will and surrender, obedience and rebellion, independence and interdependence, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Links are drawn to a variety of contemporary psychoanalytic theories, developments, and controversies.     

Call for papers: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery

Call for Papers

Call for papers: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery     

Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected Problems of Logic: Martin Heidegger and Basic Concepts: Martin Heidegger

Continental Philosophy Review -     

Review Essay: Religionists and Theologians: Toward a Politics of Difference

Book reviewed in this article:
Mark C. Taylor, About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture