The beliefs both that sentimental education is a vital part of moral education and that habituation is a vital part of sentimental education can be counted as being at the ‘hard core’ of the Aristotelian tradition of moral thought and action. On the basis of an explanation of the defining characteristics of Aristotelian habituation, this paper explores how and why habituation may be an effectiv...

This paper marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of my first paper on fuzzy sets, “Fuzzy sets,” Information and Control, 1965. What is of historical interest is that initially—and for some time thereafter—my paper was an object of indifference, skepticism and derision. A prominent school of thought claimed that fuzzy set theory is probability theory in disguise. Positive comments were f...

We give a simple definition of validity for syllogisms involving necessary and assertoric premises which validates all and only the Aristotelian apodeictic syllogisms.

I explore the question of whether scientific changes can induce mutations in our ordinary notion of existence. I conclude that they can’t, partially on the grounds that some of the proposed alternative-notions of existence are only terminologically-distinct from our ordinary notion, and so don’t provide genuine metaphysical alternatives, and partially on the grounds that the ordinary notion of ...

I present a new puzzle that concerns Aristotle’s accidents. This arises when applying basic requirement of accidentality to the variety cases Aristotle provides. In short, seems offer, now thought is accidental b, and b a; but if asymmetric, as it be, then a’s being implies not a. One might offer schooled Aristotelian solution, allowing while in sense quite different sense. But, will argue, thi...

Abstract Neo-Aristotelian naturalism purports to explain morality in terms of human nature, while maintaining that the relevant aspects nature cannot be known scientifically. This has led some conclude neo-Aristotelian is not a form ethical standard, metaphysical sense. In this paper, I argue fact standard committed about moral truths and presents distinctive underappreciated argument for it. r...