Science, Mind and Art

A. Aesthetics, Art History and the Work of Art.- Art as a Product of Nature as a Work of Art.- Neo-Pragmatism and the New Aesthetic. The Second Death of Philosophy.- The Reader’s Progress: Remarks on Arnold Hauser’s Philosophy of Art History.- Poems from “Green the Witch-Hazel Wood” and “Alluvial”.- B. Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science.- Hegel’s Conception of Teleology.- The Virus of Fatalism.- Wittgenstein Versus Artificial Intelligence?.- Schopenhauer und Helmholtz: Bemerkungen zu einer alten Kontroverse zwischen Philosophic und Naturwissenschaft.- The Meaning of Thomas Kuhn’s “Different Worlds”.- Multicultural Science Education: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science.- Functionalism and Multirealizability: On Interaction Between Structure and Function.- A Closet Realist.- C. Philosophy, Religion and Human Values.- The Poverty of Theistic Morality.- “. . . Knowing Good and Evil . . .”.- Is Judaism Thisworldly? Cosmological Boundaries, Soteriological Bridges, and Social References in Judaism.- A Gloss on Robert S. Cohen’s Ambiguities of Science.- Socrates and Plato: Understanding the World and Changing it.- Science, Religion, and the Quest for Truth: Aristotle and Tillich on the First Principles of Knowledge.- Relational Morality: Which Relations, Which Morals?.- On Bob Cohen.- On the Transvaluation of Values: Nietzsche Contra Foucault.- Rabbi Yehuda the Prince.- D. History, Memory and Reality.- Memory and History: On the Poverty of Remembering and Forgetting the Judeocide.- Remembering and Reality.- Common Sense and the Rights of Man in America: The Celebration and Damnation of Thomas Paine.- Index of Names.