Works by Asa Kasher
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- (1 other version)Aspects of Scientific Explanation.Asa Kasher -1965 -Journal of Symbolic Logic 37 (4):747-749.
- Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities.Jeanine Diller &Asa Kasher (eds.) -2013 - Springer.James E. Taylor As the title of this book makes clear, the essays contained in it are unified by their focus on models of God and alternative ultimate realities. But what is ultimate reality, what does 'God' mean, and what would count as a model ...
- Military Ethics of Fighting Terror: An Israeli Perspective.Asa Kasher &Amos Yadlin -2005 -Journal of Military Ethics 4 (1):3-32.The present paper is devoted to a detailed presentation of a new Military Ethics doctrine of fighting terror. It is proposed as an extension of the classical Just War Theory, which has been meant to apply to ordinary international conflicts. Since the conditions of a fight against terror are essentially different from the conditions that are assumed to hold in the classical war (military) paradigm or in the law enforcement (police) paradigm, a third model is needed. The paper proposes such (...) a model in the form of principles that should govern the activity of a democratic state when faced with terror. Eleven principle are proposed. Two are on the level of the state, including the Principle of Self-Defense Duty. Six are related to military preventive acts against activities of terror, including new formulations of a Principle of Military Necessity, a Principle of Distinction, and a Principle of Military Proportionality. Principles of Low Probabilities, Time Span Considerations and Professional Understanding are also included. Finally, three principles that are related to consciousness-directed activities against terror are added: a Principle of Permanent Notice, a Principle of Compensation, and a Principle of Operational Deterrence. The exposition of the principles is accompanied by arguments about their moral justification. The doctrine has been developed on the background of the IDF fight against acts and activities of terror performed by Palestinian individuals and organizations. (shrink)
- Suspending Voluntary Reserve Service: New Questions in Israeli Military Ethics.Asa Kasher -2023 -Conatus 8 (2):241-256.Military activities with the framework of the IDF [Israel Defense Force] is carried out by citizens in a variety of positions. In addition to the ordinary positions of career officers and NCOs, the IDF consists of conscripted men and women as well as reservists. Some of the latter serve under an ordinary command to serve for a certain relatively short period. Other reservists, including pilots and special forces officers have served since they volunteered to serve. Facing the political clash between (...) the government, who have been viewed as trying to change the democratic nature of the state, and the popular opposition, who have tried to protect the judiciary and other elements of democracy, many officers who belong to the latter reservist group have suspended their voluntary service or even retired. Their decision has raised the obvious issue of whether such decisions can be justified, morally, ethically, and democratically. This is the topic of the present paper. (shrink)
- Pragmatics and Chomsky's research program.Asa Kasher -1991 - In Aka Kasher,The Chomskyan Turn. Blackwell. pp. 122--149.
- Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands.Asa Kasher -forthcoming -Journal of Bioethical Inquiry:1-5.
- What Is A Theory Of Use?Asa Kasher -1977 -Journal of Pragmatics 1 (June):105-120.
- Professional Ethics and Collective Professional Autonomy A Conceptual Analysis.Asa Kasher -2005 -Ethical Perspectives 12 (1):67-97.The purpose of this article is to outline a systematic answer to the question of collective autonomy, its conceptual nature and lmimits, and apply it by way of example to the case of the engineering profession.In the first section, it is argued that a professional activity involves systematic knowledge and proficiency, a form of continuous improvement of the related bodies of knowledge and proficiency, as well as two levels of understanding: a local one, which is the ability to justify and (...) explain professional acts, and a global one, which involves a conception of the whole profession and its ethical principles.The second section is devoted to a conceptual analysis of professional ethics. It is argued that it consists of a general conception of professionality, a particular conception of the profession under consideration, and a conception of the normative requirements made by the societal envelope of the professional activity, in particular basic norms of democracy.The third section draws conclusions with respect to the nature and limits of professional autonomy. It is shown that such autonomy is much more restricted than its apparent extent. Examples from engineering and other professions are provided. (shrink)
- The Principle of Distinction.Asa Kasher -2007 -Journal of Military Ethics 6 (2):152-167.
- Gricean Inference Revisited.Asa Kasher -1982 -Philosophica 29.
- Military ethics of fighting terror: Principles.Asa Kasher &Amos Yadlin -2006 -Philosophia 34 (1):75-84.The purpose of the present document is to briefly present principles that constitute a new doctrine within the sphere of Military Ethics : The Just War Doctrine of Fighting Terror.The doctrine has been developed by a team we have headed at the Israel Defense Force College of National Defense. However, the work has been done on the general levels of moral, ethical and legal considerations that should guide a democratic state when it faces terrorist activities committed against its citizens. Accordingly, (...) the proposed principles are meant to be justified and practically applicable under any parallel circumstances. Moreover, those principles are intended to be universal in the sense that the justification of none of them rests on any particular stance with respect to the desired solution of the conflict under consideration. (shrink)
- Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities.Asa Kasher &Jeanine Diller (eds.) -2013 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.No categories
- Military Ethics of Fighting Terror: Response.Asa Kasher &Amos Yadlin -2005 -Journal of Military Ethics 4 (1):60-70.We are grateful to Professors Nick Fotion, Bashshar Haydar and David L. Perry for their illuminating discussions of our paper, ?Military ethics of fighting terror: An Israeli perspective?, published in the present issue of the Journal of Military Ethics. We also thank the editors of the Journal for allowing us to add the present response. Professors Fotion, Haydar and Perry raise many significant issues. We will, however, presently address just a few of them, leaving the discussion of the other interesting (...) points to other occasions. (shrink)
- On the puzzle of self-supporting inductive arguments.Asa Kasher -1972 -Mind 81 (322):277-279.
- Sentences and Utterances Reconsidered.Asa Kasher -1972 -Foundations of Language 8 (3):313-345.
- Verisimilitude is a Surface Concept.Asa Kasher -1972 -Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 3 (2):21-27.
- Public Trust in a Military Force.Asa Kasher -2003 -Journal of Military Ethics 2 (1):20-45.The purpose of this paper is to portray the nature of public trust in a military force within a democratic state and explain its importance. On grounds of a general conception of 'profession' and 'professional ethics', it is argued that a military force in a democratic state ought to nurture genuine public trust in itself, to take the form of a commonly or at least very broadly held presumption of proper functioning in all professional respects, including effectiveness, improvement and ethics. (...) It is also argued that external inquiry commissions, sometimes appointed to investigate a recent failure, within the framework of a military force, are counterproductive as attempts to enhance the required public trust. (shrink)
- Religious concepts of punishment and reward.Shlomo Biderman &Asa Kasher -1984 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (4):433-451.
- Models of God and Other Kinds of Ultimate Reality.Jeanine Diller &Asa Kasher (eds.) -2013 - Springer.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Dat ṿe-śafah: maʼamarim be-filosofyah kelalit ṿi-Yehudit.Mosheh Ḥalamish &Asa Kasher (eds.) -1981 - [Tel Aviv]: Mifʻalim universiṭaʼiyim le-hotsaʼah la-or.Export citation Bookmark
- A note on the breadth and depth of terms.Asa Kasher &Ruth Manor -1979 -Theory and Decision 11 (1):71-79.No categories
- Between Obedience and Discipline.Asa Kasher -2002 -Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 10 (2-3):97-122.
- Editorial.Asa Kasher -2005 -Philosophia 33 (1-4):1-1.No categories
- Editorial.Asa Kasher -2006 -Philosophia 34 (1):1-1.No categories
- Ethics of War and Conflict.Asa Kasher (ed.) -2013 - Routledge.Standing on the shoulders of thinkers who have sought carefully to delineate proper behaviour in armed conflict—not least to distinguish just from illegitimate wars—military ethics is a subdiscipline enjoying renewed interest and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, increasing practical relevance. It is particularly vibrant and expansive at the moment due to the emergence of novel forms of military activity. Whereas classical warfare involved a near symmetrical encounter between opposing forces, present-day asymmetric conflicts (such as fighting terrorists and insurgents) (...) and other military challenges (such as humanitarian intervention and peacekeeping) raise especially difficult—and often dizzying—ethical issues. As research in and around the area flourishes as never before, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. It is a four-volume collection of the best and most influential canonical and cutting-edge research. The first volume (‘Traditions’) assembles the key work on the history of military ethics from a variety of traditions. The second volume collects the most important thinking on the crucial doctrine of a ‘just war’. Volume III (‘New Military Activities’), meanwhile, brings together the best research on topics such humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, fighting terrorism, and counterinsurgency. The scholarship assembled in the final volume (‘Issues’) focuses on the contentions around military values and virtues. It also collects the best work on the ethcis of dealing with extreme emergencies, deterrence, and torture. With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context, Military Ethics is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource. (shrink)
- Etiḳah tsevaʼit.Asa Kasher -1996 - [Tel Aviv]: Miśrad ha-biṭaḥon.Export citation Bookmark
- Etiḳah Yiśreʼelit: ba-viṭaḥon, ba-politịḳah, ba-aḳademyah ṿa-ʻod = Israeli ethics.Asa Kasher -2022 - Moshav Ben-Shemen: Keter.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Filosofyah Yiśreʼelit.Asa Kasher &Mosheh Ḥalamish (eds.) -1983 - Tel-Aviv: Papirus.Export citation Bookmark
- Human Life in the War on Terrorism: a Response to “the Risk Dilemma” by Michael Walzer.Asa Kasher &Amos Yadlin -2016 -Philosophia 44 (2):295-308.
- Iyunim be-etiḳah.Asa Kasher (ed.) -2009 - Yerushalayim: Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit.Export citation Bookmark
- Jewish ethics.Asa Kasher -1989 - In Kenneth Keulman,Review: World Religions and Global Ethics. New York: Paragon House Publishers.Export citation Bookmark
- Jewish Ethics and War.Asa Kasher -2013 - In Elliot N. Dorff & Jonathan K. Crane,The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality. Oup Usa.This chapter discusses Jewish ethics and war. It first turns to ancient and medieval Jewish sources to describe what they tell us about the ethics of going to war and of waging war —especially Deuteronomy 20–21 and Maimonides' code of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah. Recognizing that until the founding of the modern State of Israel, Jews fought in armies governed by non-Jewish rulers, it then examines a nineteenth-century book intended to instruct Jews about how to act in military service. (...) The overriding principle in that book and in the few other Jewish treatments of the ethics of war during the last two thousand years was “the law of the land is the law,” and that law was determined by the non-Jewish ruler. What happens, though, when Jews determine the law of the land? The chapter examines some Jewish writings published just before and after the establishment of the State of Israel that anticipate this issue. It discusses the doctrine of “purity of arms” that has shaped Israeli military ethics, the role of the military rabbinate, the Code of Ethics which now governs Israel's military actions, the ethics of fighting terrorism, and the ethics of seeking peace. (shrink)No categories
- Linguistics and Logic: Conspectus and Prospects.Asa Kasher -1975
- Logical Forms in Context.Asa Kasher -1973 -The Monist 57 (3):371-395.Natural Logic is the science of valid argumentation in natural languages. Every native speaker of any natural language has logical intuitions, pronounceable by his assent or dissent to arguments presented to him in his natural language, like.
- Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems.Asa Kasher (ed.) -1975 - Springer Verlag.Export citation Bookmark
- Note on Alan Gewirth's paper.Asa Kasher -2005 -Philosophia 32 (1-4):19-19.No categories
- On degrees of adequacy for formal semantics of natural languages.Asa Kasher -1976 -Philosophica 18 (2):139-157.
- On Pragmatic Demarcation of Language.Asa Kasher -1979 - In Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli & Arnim von Stechow,Semantics from different points of view. New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 188--194.
- On Sommers’ Concept of Natural Syntax.Asa Kasher -1971 -Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 20:139-143.IN his recent paper ‘On Concepts of Truth in Natural Languages’ [7] Professor Sommers proposes a new solution to the Liar paradox. He claims that ‘an acceptable natural solution must possess the following two features: Barriers to the Liar paradox are discovered in natural syntax, The natural barriers which keep out the Liar do not also exclude meaningful and harmless linguistic reference’. If we reformulate Sommers’ claim we get the puzzling contention that the natural barriers of a semantic paradox should (...) be looked for in natural syntax. It is puzzling for there is no reason to seek solution of some of the most difficult problems in the semantics of natural languages in the syntax of natural languages. Now, this puzzling air is not due to our introduction of the epithet ‘semantic’ to the Liar paradox. Sommers recognizes the semantic character of the paradox and its solution when he states that the principle which is claimed to be the barrier of the paradox ‘though.… a syntactic principle, the restraints it imposes on natural language are semantic. It sets bounds on the expressive powers of the language by prohibiting certain kinds of state reference or state characterization’. (shrink)No categories
- On the fugitive paradox of fugitive propositions.Asa Kasher -1972 -Theory and Decision 2 (3):262-266.No categories
- Pragmatics: Critical Concepts: Volume IV: Presupposition, Implicature and Indirect Speech Acts.Asa Kasher (ed.) -1998 - Routledge.Export citation Bookmark
- Philosophical linguistics: an introd.Asa Kasher -1977 - Kronberg/Ts.: Scriptor-Verlag. Edited by Shalom Lappin.
- Philosophical quarterly of Israel.Asa Kasher -2005 -Philosophia 32 (1-4):450.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Pragmatics, Semiotics and Pragmatism.Asa Kasher -1981 - In Annemarie Lange-Seidl,Zeichenkonstitution. Akten des 2. Semiotischen Kolloquiums Regensburg 1978. De Gruyter. pp. 53-60.No categories
- Rationality and limits of science.Asa Kasher -1974 -Philosophia 4 (4):563-563.
- Rationality and pragmatics.Asa Kasher -2008 -Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 7.
- Ruaḥ ish: arbaʻah shaʻarim.Asa Kasher -2000
- Silence of God.Asa Kasher -2003 -Philosophia 30 (1-4):3-5.No categories
- The Spirit of Philosophia: 50 Years in Retrospect.Asa Kasher -2022 -Philosophia 50 (5):2193-2204.No categories
- Worlds, games and pragmemes: a unified theory of speech acts.Asa Kasher -1973 - In Radu J. Bogdan & Ilkka Niiniluoto,Logic, language, and probability. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Pub. Co.. pp. 201--207.
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