Appendix B: Resources for Further Investigation

This appendix contains resources you may find useful if you wish to pursue further any of the topics covered in this volume. I've organized this reference section into 14 major categories. There are overlaps with each of these areas, but this should get you started. Note: If there was not an apparent creation date, the date listed for Web articles (e.g., 5-Oct-02) indicates the date on which the article was accessed or downloaded.

Philosophy

Books

Coffa, J. Alberto. The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap to the Vienna Station. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Semantics underwent a major transition in philosophy from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. However, I found very little related to business systems.

Copleston, Frederick S. J. A History of Philosophy. New York: Image Books, 1985. One good volume that covers a lot of philosophy.

Ogden, C. K., Richards, I. A. The Meaning of Meaning. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1956.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The Social Contract. New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1947. Where do our obligations come from?

Simons, Peter. Study in Ontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Study of the relationship of parts to wholes: When do we consider the collection and when do we deal with the members?

Magazine and Web Articles

Kant, Immanuel. 18-June-01. Metaphysics. Web article: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/k/kantmeta.htm.

Sellars, Wilfred. 9-May-56. Is There a Synthetic A Priori? In Hook, Sidney. American Philosophers at Work: The Philosophic Science in the United States, New York: Criterion, 1956, pp 135–159. Web article: http://www.ditext.com/sellars/itsa.html. Comments on Kant analysis.

van Cleave, Kent B. 20-Jun-98. Metaphysical Functionalism. Web article: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KVC/philbg.htm.

Zajicek, G. 2-Jan-01. Cancer and Metaphysics. Cancer Journal, pp 243–248. Web article: http://www.what-is-cancer.com/papers/cancerandmetaphysics200.html.

27-Dec-01. The Origins of Western Thought. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2b.htm.

27-Dec-01. Socrates: Philosophical Life. Web article: http://www.philosohypages.com/hy/2d.htm.

27-Dec-01. Plato: Immortality and the Forms. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2f.htm.

27-Dec-01. Aristotle: Forms and Souls. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2p.htm.

27-Dec-01. Aristotle: Logical Methods. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2n.htm.

27-Dec-02. Prediction an Ontology: The Categories. Web article: http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cats320.htm.

5-Dec-01. Prediction, Homonymy, and The Categories. Web article: http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/courses/ancient/prediction.html.

5-Dec-03. Logic. Web article: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09324a.htm.

27-Dec-01. Kant: Experience and Reality. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/5g.htm.

27-Dec-01. Leibniz: Logic and Harmony. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4j.htm.

27-Dec-01. Descartes: A New Approach. Web article: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4b.htm.

27-Dec-01. Kant: Synthetic A Priori Judgments. Web article: http://www.philsophypages.com/hy/5f.htm.

10-Nov-02. Skepticism—Sources of Knowledge. Web article: http://www.philosophyonline.co.uk/tok/scepticism2.htm.

3-Aug-02. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Abridged Table of Contents. Web article: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html. Good index of the breadth of philosophical topic areas.