Orthodoxy: How Nationalism Trumps Universalism

The New Orthodoxy: How Can It Fail?

During this last decade, neutrino-physics has evolved from its crude beginnings into a highly quantitative branch of particle physics. And during this decade, particle-physics itself has developed extremely rapidly and fruitfully into a state which is far reaching, surprisingly rigid, and broadly accepted. In fact it is only in about the last five years that the concepts central to the present ...

The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state.

Noyola's Critique of Orthodoxy

This is the English version of " Juan F. Noyola Vázquez : regreso al solar de la economía política clásica " in Carlos Mallorquín and R. Torres, eds. El Institucionalismo norteamericano y el estructuralismo Latinoamericano, Discursos compatibles? (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, forthcoming 2004).

Orthodoxy and Global Pluralism

As scholars become more aware of the importance of religion in world affairs, several have begun to ask whether specific religious traditions are compatible with the institutions and values of liberal democracy. With approximately 350 million Orthodox Christians in the world, and given the great political and economic importance of the many countries they call home, an understanding of Orthodox...

Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements.