Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1990), p. 160.


History of Philosophy
  Why is (Goodman's) Platonism so Bad?

The paper is a refutation of Goodman's criticism of platonism (or an explication of platonism).

I presented a version of the paper at the Eighth Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Discipuli, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 27-28, 1992.


  How Carnap Should Bite Goodman's Bullet

Goodman's famous objection to Carnap's Aufbau is its method of construction, quasi-analysis, fails on logical grounds. It does indeed. I counter the force of this objection by showing that it relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of the enterprise Carnap is engaged in. Far from seeing the logical failures of quasi-analysis as fatal to that enterprise, one may actually see them as having the potential of enriching it.

The paper appeared in Philosophia 24 (1994), 149-156.


  Carnap and Quine on Ontology

The paper appeared in Premise 10 (1989), 49-54.


  Carnap and Leibniz on the Problem of Being

The paper appeared in Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 28 (1992), 163-177.


  Heidegger's Ontology of Relations


  The Master and Slave Configuration in Hegel's System

The paper appeared in: (eds.) L. Nowak, M. Paprzycki, Social Systems, Rationality and Revolution (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993), pp. 83-104.


  Is the Skeptical Attitude the Attitude of a Skeptic?

The paper appeared in Auslegung 17-2 (1991), 119-123.