Haig Khatchadourian Livres

The book features contributions from various experts in their respective fields, providing a diverse range of perspectives and insights. Each contributor brings unique knowledge and experience, enhancing the depth and richness of the content. The collaborative effort aims to address complex topics, offering readers a comprehensive understanding through varied viewpoints. This collective wisdom is designed to inspire and inform, making the book a valuable resource for those seeking to explore the subject matter in greater detail.

Spanning several decades, this collection of reflections offers deep insights into various philosophical topics, including aesthetics, ontology of art, and value theory. The author delves into metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language with extended entries, while briefly addressing philosophy of science, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. The journal-based format allows for a personal exploration of complex ideas, showcasing the author's unique perspective on the intricacies of philosophical thought.

"Truth: Its Criteria and Conditions" offers a critical and constructive exploration of empirical truth theories, including correspondence and performative theories. It analyzes concepts like "fact," the meanings of 'true' and 'false,' and their applications. A key assertion is the indefinability of truth, differing from Frege's perspective.

Die Reihe bietet ein Publikationsforum für innovative Arbeiten zu allen Themengebieten der analytischen Philosophie. Die Bände in dieser Reihe erscheinen in deutscher oder englischer Sprache. This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing.  It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the religious dimensions of silence.  The book, as an original contribution to analytical philosophy, should be of interest to philosophers and students.

Community and Communitarianism presents - and defends in detail - a care-centered ideal of a good and moral a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in «teleological communities,» cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community, needs to be constrained and fortified by equal respect for the participants' basic human right to be treated as moral subjects, together with fair and just treatment. Besides contributing to social philosophy, the book contributes significantly to ethics.

The Morality of Terrorism argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, and just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing «freedom fighting» from terrorism, this study lays down stringent conditions derived from just war theory, for the moral justifiability of «freedom fighting», such as some revolutions, civil wars, and guerilla warfare. This book then evaluates the morality of actual and possible judicial and military responses to terrorism by targeted governments. An appendix provides a case study (the Palestine problem) of root causes of political and moralistic-religious terrorism.

This book aims to provide an in-depth understanding of linguistic meaning, a central theme in twentieth-century philosophy, and its various connections with criteria. Part I examines four major recent theories of meaning, linguistic rules and conventions, and practices. In Part II, after an extended analysis of the concept of criterion against the backdrop of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and the post-Wittgenstein period, various connections between criteria and meaning are revealed in relation to both non-evaluative and evaluative concepts. The last chapter details various sorts of error and confusion in a host of important philosophical views resulting from an improper understanding of criteria, conditions, and evidence.

A Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel is the &ltI>sine qua non of a stable peace between Arabs and Israelis, and at this late date would realize a modicum of the Palestinians' moral and legal territorial rights (roughly equal to those of the Jews/Israelis), and a long-standing aspiration for self-determination. A defense of the -two-state- option, and a qualified defense of the Oslo Accords against Islamist and radical Jewish rejectionist critics is therefore offered. Besides satisfying Palestinian aspirations, Palestinian statehood would help open the way to a comprehensive peace between the Arabs and Israel, through a just, negotiated settlement of the Syrian/Lebanese-Israeli territorial disputes. A comprehensive peace, in turn, should stimulate economic and cultural cooperation between Israel and the Arab countries (the -peace divided-), lending it additional strength. Increased stability should also result from the hoped-for liberalization and democratization of the region's Arab regimes."