Early Work

Essays and talks from before my PhD — mostly coursework from my MA in Analytical Philosophy at the University of Bucharest.

James’s Pragmatic Theory of Truth

Truth as Collective Conscious Archetype

William James’s pragmatic theory of truth offers more than a novel account of verification—it reveals the fundamentally social and collective nature of truth itself. In…

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Probability as Instrumentalist Construction of Determinism

A Response to Hume’s Problem of Causation

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Short Version - Patterns, Pragmatism, and Mild Realism - An Empirical Probe

This essay revisits the question of whether patterns in language are real, by comparing Daniel Dennett’s “mild-realism” claim that patterns are real when they help us…

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Patterns, Pragmatism, and Mild Realism: An Empirical Probe

(a first draft proposal for Contemporary Metaphysics class)

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How Analytic Philosophy got into a straight jacket - Extended Abstract

The traditional misunderstanding of human being starts with Plato’s fascination with theory. (Dreyfus 2006)

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Immediate and Mediated Existence

(an essay submitted for the Philosophy of Language class)

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