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WestonThomas Weston, Ph.D.
MIT
Professor of Philosophy
Executive Board Member for Peace and Justice Issues CFA-SDSU

Location: AL-442
Phone:
(619) 594-6218

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Office Hours:
M & F  2:00-4:00pm


Publications


Logic, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Dialectical Thought, Approximate Truth

Current Projects: (1) The concept of "non-antagonistic" contradiction in Soviet Philosophy. (2) The concept of omnipotence and actions requiring incapacity. (3) Marx on elliptical motion. (4)The logic of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre.


Publications

"Non-antagonistic Contradiction in Soviet Philosophy," Science and Society, 2008, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 427-454.

Review of J. Allard, Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2008, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 490-1.

"Approximate Truth and Scientific Realism," Philosophy of Science 59 (1992), n. 1, pp. 53 - 75.

"Approximate Truth and Lukasiewicz Logic," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 29 (1988) pp. 229-234.

"Approximate Truth," Journal of Philosophical Logic 16 (1987) pp. 203-227.

"The Continuum Hypothesis is Independent of Second-Order ZF," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 18 (1977) pp. 499-503.

"Kreisel, the Continuum Hypothesis and Second-Order Set Theory," Journal of Philosophical Logic 5 (1976) pp. 281-298.

"Theories Whose Quantification Cannot be Substitutional," Nous 8 (1974) pp. 361-370.

 

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