J.-M. Kuczynski has 11 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators. The most-rated is Ask Me Anything About Epistemology!.
The Mind-Body Problem
Summary
In this book, each of the possible positions concerning the relationship between mind and body is clearly explained and thoroughly critiqued. It is concluded that, although mental events are identical with physical events, mentalistic statements are not equivalent with physicalistic statements. It is also shown that the way in which mentalistic statements are non-equivalent with physicalistic statements is deeper than the way in which biological statements are non-equivalent with microphysical statements. In other words, the sense in which mind and body lie on opposite sides of an "explanatory gap" is much stronger than the sense in which biology and microphysics do so.
©2016 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2016 John-Michael Kuczynski
The Moral Structure of Legal Obligation
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It is said: What laws are What legal interpretation (so-called) is What governments are How governmental authority differs from the pseudo-authority of a gunman How moral and legal obligations are related, and Under what circumstances it is and is not morally permissible to break the law.
©2016 J.-M. Kuczynski (P)2017 J.-M. Kuczynski
What is Analytic Truth?: A Dialogue
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In this fictitious dialogue, it is said what an analytic truth is, and it is established that such truths exist.
©2016 JOHN-MICHAEL KUCZYNSKI (P)2016 JOHN-MICHAEL KUCZYNSKI
International Law
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A case is made that so-called international law is law in name only and, moreover, that although bona fide international law is theoretically possible, it would not be desirable.
©2016 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2016 John-Michael Kuczynski
Selling Out: A Dialogue
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A dialogue about becoming an adult.
©2016 J.-M. Kuczynski (P)2016 J.-M. Kuczynski
Boolean Algebra as the Basis of Mathematical Logic
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The theorems of the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus are stated, and the analogous principles of Boolean Algebra are identified. Also, the primary principles of modal logic are stated, and a procedure is described for identifying their Boolean analogues.
©2016 J.-M. Kuczynski (P)2016 J.-M. Kuczynski
Ass, Grass, or Pass: Thoughts on Prostitution, Bureaucracy, and the Subhuman Condition
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Thoughts are stated concerning the human and subhuman conditions.
©2017 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2020 John-Michael Kuczynski
Popular Lectures on Logic
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Clear answers are given to important questions in both theoretical and applied logic. The writing is cogent and straightforward. Table of contents: Thirty principles of logic Boolean algebra as the basis of mathematical logic Trilingual logic One hundred and one principles of logic Different kinds of mathematical functions: a dialogue Fucntions, bijections and mapping-relations Logic and formal truth Relations and ordinal numbers Nine kinds of number Causality Analyticity Is mind an emergent property? Is time-travel possible? What is a formal language? Logic and inference
©2017 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2017 John-Michael Kuczynski
Three Philosophical Works
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A compendium of some of Kuczynski's more readable work on philosophy, scientific methodology, and the theory of knowledge.
©2017 J.-M. Kuczynski (P)2017 J.-M. Kuczynski
Quine on the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction
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W.V.O. tried to prove that no statement is necessarily true. In this work, Quine's argument is stated, analyzed, and shown to be a broken argument for a false conclusion. It is shown that necessary truths are as important as empirical truths to the empirical sciences, the reason being that, without necessary truths, there is no way to organize or interpret data. It comes to light that, in addition to being false, every form of extreme empiricism (e.g. Dewey's pragmatism, Wittgenstein's verificationism, Comte's positivism) is so incoherent that it cannot be clearly stated without thereby being refuted.
©2016 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2016 John-Michael Kuczynski
Ask Me Anything About Epistemology!
Summary
Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is the discipline that makes it clear what conditions one must meet if one is to have knowledge. Epistemology thus explains how it is that we can have knowledge of the future, the past, and the present but imperceptible. Epistemology also explains how we can have knowledge of truths that concern abstract entities, such as numbers and properties, as opposed to spatio-temporal entities. Epistemology also explains how our ability to have a given kind of knowledge may interact with our ability to have some other kind of knowledge, so as to produce an ability to have a third kind of knowledge. Thus, our ability to understand truths of a purely mathematical kind interacts with our ability to grasp truths about the external world, in such a way as to produce an ability on our part to grasp laws of physics. Epistemology also explains how we can have knowledge of an external world, and it identifies the limits of such knowledge, some of the principles relating to which are embodied in important scientific principles, such as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Finally, epistemology clarifies the nature and limits of our knowledge of ourselves; and in so doing, it elucidates the nature of the discoveries made by Freud and Chomsky, and also suggests ways to rearticulate and improve upon the theories put forth by those investigators. In this AMA (Ask Me Anything)-session, I answer people’s questions about epistemology.
©2020 John-Michael Kuczynski (P)2020 John-Michael Kuczynski