Philosophical Essays and Musings

By: Dr. Sam Vaknin


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Philosophical Writings (Click on the blue-coloured titles to access the articles):

Philosophy of Science

Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Information Technology and Internet

Psychology and Mental Health

The Philosophy of Economics

Culture and Society

History

Issues in Current Philosophy

Ethics

Moral Dilemmas in Films


Philosophy of Science

Time Asymmetry Re-Visited (Abstract Only)

Anthropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy (Abstract Only)

The Science of Superstitions

The Decoherence of Measurement

The Quantum of Continuity

Notes and Thoughts about String Theory

The Complexity of Simplicity 

And Technical Note about Ambiguity and Vagueness

 


Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Psychophysics

The Basic Dilemma of the Artist

Turing Machines and Universes

The Fourth Law (of Robotics) - Part I

The Metaphors of the Mind - Part I (The Brain)

The Metaphors of the Mind - Part II (Psychotherapy)

The Metaphors of the Mind - Part III (Dreams)

The Chinese Room Revisited

The Interrupted Self

Being John Malkovich

Intuition

The Shattered Identity


Information Technology and Internet

Internet: A Medium or a Message?

The Interconnected Chaos - A Dialogue

The Solow Paradox

The Law of Technology and the Technology of Law -
An Epistolary Dialogue

The Revolt of the Poor: Intellectual Property

Metaphors of the Net

A Brief History of the Book


Psychology and Mental Health

Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited

Narcissism - Frequently Asked Questions

Parenting: The Irrational Vocation

The Metaphors of the Mind - Part I (The Brain)

The Metaphors of the Mind - Part II (Psychotherapy)

The Metaphors of the Mind - Part III (Dreams)

Use and Abuse of Differential Diagnoses

The Iron Mask: Acute Anger and Psychopathology

Narcissists, Ethnic or Religious Affiliation, and Terrorists

Object Relations - The Psychology of Mass and Serial Killers

The Psychology of Torture

Narcissism in the Boardroom

The Offspring of Aeolus: On Incest

The Habit of Identity

The Manifold of Sense

Born Aliens

On Dis-ease

On Empathy

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Uniqueness

Traumas as Social Interactions


The Philosophy of Economics  

The Dismal Mind - Economics as a Pretension to Science

Economics - The Neglected Branch of Psychology

Moral Hazard the Survival Value of Risk

Governments and Growth

The Principal-Agent Conundrum

The Roller Coaster Market - On Volatility and Risk

The Misconception of Scarcity

The Green-Eyed Capitalist

The Disruptive Engine - Innovation and the Capitalist Dream

Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure

The Distributive Justice of the Market

Anarchy as an Organizing Principle

Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences

The Professions of the Future

The Revolt of the Poor: Intellectual Property

The Fabric of Economic Trust

Scavenger Economies and Predator Economies

Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies

Surfing the Third Wave

Notes on the Economics of Game Theory

The Redistributive Mechanism of Divorce

Knowledge and Power


Culture and Society

Narcissists, Ethnic or Religious Affiliation, and Terrorists

Collective Narcissism

Narcissistic Leaders

Legalizing Crime

The Argument for Torture

A Brief History of the Book

Future Perfect

Form and Anti Form: The Metaphorically Correct Artist

Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure

Althusser and the competing interpellations

The Cultural Narcissist: Christopher Lasch

The Madness of Playing Games

Parenting: The Irrational Vocation

On Achievement

The Happiness of Others

The Egoistic Friend

The Murder of Oneself

The Professions of the Future

The Revolt of the Poor: Intellectual Property

Surfing the Third Wave

The Redistributive Mechanism of Divorce

The Good Enough Family

What Doth a Leader Make?

Knowledge and Power

The Virtual Home

Dreams of Reality - A Dialogue about Art

The Offspring of Aeolus: On Incest

Ethical Relativism and Absolute Taboos

The Turtle Syndrome

The Predicament of the Newly Rich

The Impeachment of The President

Responses by members of the US Senate

Elites - A Dialogue about History

On Dis-ease

The Interconnected Chaos - A Dialogue

The Minmaj Rule

The Solow Paradox

The Poets and the Eclipse

The Dance of Jael

The Secret Art of Power - An Epistolary Dialogue

The Law of Technology and the Technology of Law -
An Epistolary Dialogue

A Classification of Cultures

Surpassing Man - An Epistolary Dialogue

The Varieties of Corruption

The Ghost in the Net - An Epistolary Dialogue

And Then There Were Too Many

The Merits of Stereotypes

Sex or Gender

Serial Killers as a Cultural Construct


 

History

The Inverted Saint - Hitler

Fascism - The Tensile Permanence

Russia's Second Empire

The Iraqi and the Madman

Left and Right in a Divided Europe

Communism, Capitalism, Feudalism

The Betrayal of History


Issues in Current Philosophy

Death, Life and the Question of Identity

Fact and Truth

Fragments 1

Fragments 2

The Partiality of Wholeness

On Achievement

The Possibility of Necessity

Parsimony - the Fourth Substance

The Legitimacy of Final Causes

The Traversal of the Infinite

The Meaninglessness of External Causes

Polar Concepts

The Definition of Definitions

Bestowed Existence

The Nature of Reality - An Epistolary Dialogue

Manners of Speech

Intuition


Ethics

"Morals for the 21st Century" - Book Review

Morality as a Mental State

Nature, Aesthetics, Pleasure, and Ethics

Affiliation and Morality

On Being Human

On Empathy

The Happiness of Others

The Egoistic Friend

Ethical Relativism and Absolute Taboos

The Murder of Oneself

Legalizing Crime

The Argument for Torture

The Myth of the Right to Life

The Aborted Contract

In Our Own Image - The Debate about Cloning

Eugenics and the Future of the Human Species

The Rights of Animals

The Impeachment of The President

Surpassing Man - An Epistolary Dialogue


Moral Dilemmas in Films

Titanic, or a Moral Deliberation

"The Truman Show" - A Moral Deliberation

The Matrix

Being John Malkovich

The Talented Mr. Ripley  

The Shattered Identity


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