Is the End in Sight for Philosophical Knowledge ?

Zak Van Straaten
Inaugural lecture as professor of philosophy in the University of Cape Town, delivered on 19 August, 1981.
Published by the University of Cape town in the Inaugural Lecture Series / New Series No. 73, 1981.

This paper was published in the South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 8 No.1, pp.1-7. Feb.,1989.

Philosophical Method

Zak Van Straaten
Philosophy Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700,
Republic of South Africa

Received June 1988

Published in the Human Sciences Research Council; Research Bulletin; pp. 51-57, vol. 16 No.5 1986

Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Science 1981-1986

Zak Van Straaten, Anne Bezuidenhout and Helen Brown
Institute for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, University of Cape Town

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Philosophical paradigms of fertility cult interpretations: philosophical perspectives on seasonal goddesses.

Zak Van Straaten
This paper was presented at the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, at the University of Malta, 2 to 5 September, 1985. Published in Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean, pp. 31 - 41 (ed.) Anthony Bonnano, B.R. Gruner, Amsterdam, 1986

The Selfish Gene in the Prehistoric Mediterranean: Implications for Society

Zak Van Straaten
This paper was presented at a Conference on the Archaeology of the Prehistoric Mediterranean at the University of Malta, in November, 1988.
Published in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 1 number 2, 1991.

Theoretical progress in archaeology: When should the archaeological research community judge a theory or research programme to be better than a rival?

Zak van Straaten

This paper was published in KNOWLEDGE and METHOD in the HUMAN SCIENCES as paper No.35; pages 535 - 556; (ed) Johann Mouton and Dian Joubert, Human Sciences Research Council Publishers, Pretoria, 1990.

Knowledge Management and Learning; the eternal merry-go-round?

By Antonia Gillham (C.E.O. of Pinoak Consulting) and professor Zak van Straaten, of Pinoak Consulting.
This paper was delivered at the, Education, Training and Development: Learn, Perform, and Succeed Conference at the Radisson Hotel, Cape Town, Oct. 18, 2004.

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This paper was published in PROBLEMS of PEDAGOGICS; Pedagogics and the study of education in South Africa, (pp.247 - 254) (ed) P.N.G. Beard and W.E. Morrow, BUTTERWORTHS, Durban and Pretoria, 1981.

Aspects of educational meta-theory

Zak Van Straaten

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In the paper which follows we DENY Quine’s thesis of Translational Indeterminacy on the level of observational terms by outlining a procedure for confirming analytical hypotheses.

Translational Indeterminacy and Substitutional Quantifiers

by James D. Carney (Arizona State University) and Zak Van Straaten (University of the Witwatersrand)

published in: Foundations of Language Vol 11 No. 4 July, 1974. D. Reidel Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland and Boston, U.S.A.