Demythologizing history: Jeanette Wintersone’s fictions and his/tories

Fictions, fantasies, and fears

The debate about cloning and genetic engineering, which began in 1997, has been strongly influenced by fictional narratives, scripts, and images. They in turn provided the seeds for the creation of various metaphors used in the debate, especially by the media. The flow of metaphors and images associated with cloning is now ebbing away and is being replaced by a new wave of images and metaphors ...

Indexicals, Fictions, and Ficta

We defend the view that an indexical uttered by an actor works on the model of deferred reference. If it defers to a character which does not exist, it is an empty term, just as ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Ophelia’ are. The utterance in which it appears does not express a proposition and thus lacks a truth value. We advocate an ontologically parsimonious, anti-realist, position. We show how the notion of tru...

Demythologizing the stem cell juggernaut.

Demythologizing Christian Philosophy: An Outline

Cloning Facts and Fictions