The doctrine of legal positivism may seem to us to be an irrelevant, abstruse philosophical exercise confined to the ivory towers of academia. The reality, however, is that it makes a huge impact on ...

The goal of this paper is to provide an accurate grounding-based formulation of positivism in the philosophy of law. I start off by discussing some simple formulations, based on the ideas that social ...

The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

The Florida International University professor emeritus made the remarks during an e-mail interview with the Mehr News Agency conducted by Hossein Kaji and Javad Heiran-Nia. Following is the text of ...

Philosophy, the journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy is published by Cambridge University Press quarterly in January, April, July and October. The editorial policy of the journal pursues the ...

Clare Carlisle took exception to my review in the Times Literary Supplement of her biography of Kierkegaard (“Alone for dinner” TLS 4 October 2019). She accused me in a letter to the editor in the ...

The year 1959 was one of philosophic celebrations. Many volumes, monographs, and papers marked the centennial of John Dewey. France, rather more than the United States, similarly celebrated Henri ...