John
H. Dreher
School of Philosophy
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
United States of America
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Qualifications
1971 Ph.D. Indiana University
1969 M.A. Indiana University
1971 B.A. cum laude, Yale University
Publications
1. "The Third Dogma of
Empiricism," Personalist, 1973
2. "Evidence and Justified Belief," Philosophical Studies,
1974
3. "Who's at Fault," Analysis,
1975
4. "Semantics and Formal Representation," Philosophia, 1978
5. “Can There Be Brute, Contingent Moral Facts”,
Philosophical Studies, Stewart
Cohen, Editor-in-Chief,
Selected papers presented in 2001 at the 75th Annual
Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American
Philosophical Association, edited by Laurie Schrag
6. “The Concepts of Truth and Knowledge in Psychologism,”
In Dale Jacquette ed, Philosophy, Psychology and
Psychologism: Critical and Historical
Essays on the
Psychological Turn in Philosophy, Kluwer, series editor,
Keith Lehrer, 2003
7. “A Pragmatic View of the Role of Thick Ethical Terms in
Public Policy Debate” Forum on Public Policy,
Vol. 2010, No 3, August 2010
8. “Evolution and the Goal of Environmentalism,” Forum on
Public Policy Online, vol. 2011, no. 2, 12 pages, August
2011
9. “Environmental Sustainability as a Culturally Invariant
Value.” Forum on Public Policy, Vol.
2012, no. 1,
15 pages, August 2012.
10. “Implementing Global Standards of Justice and the Common
Good,” Roussel, Research Center, Department of Political
Science University of Paris: (www.labtop.univ-paris8.fr/),
11 pages, February 2013.
11. “Transcending Religious Differences,” Forum on Public
Policy, vol.
2013, no. 2. (@10000 words)
12. “International Protocols to Ameliorate the Effects of
Environmental Disasters,” Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
May 2014. (@10000 words)
13. ‘A Response of the Critique of Religion by Logical Positivism’
Journal of Academic Perspectives, vol. 2014, no. 2. (@10000
words)
14. “Truthfulness as an Ideal of Democratic Society,” Forum on
Public Policy, vol. 2014, no. 2 (13000 words)
15. “The Ideal of Moral Progress as a Transcendent Value,” Journal
of Academic Perspectives, 2015: 2 (@ 11000 words)
16. “Faith, Belief and Religious Experience,” Journal of Academic
Perspectives, 2016:2 (@ 11000 words)
17. “Metaphysical Poetry as an Expression of Religious Experience
and Foundation of Religious Faith,” Forum on Public Policy,
vol. 2016:1 (@13000 words)
18. “The Circle, From Descartes’ Point of View,” Open Journal of
Philosophy, (Scientific Research Publications) OJPP
VOL. 7 No
2, 2017. (@ 9900 words).
19. “Hume, Newton and Malebranche on Causation,” Open Journal of
Philosophy, Scientific Research Publications) OJPP Vol.
7,
No. 3, 2017 (@13000 words).
20. “Irony in Philosophical Narrative,” Forum
on Public Policy,
Vol. 2018:2 (@11000 words)
21. “Levels of Toleration,” Forum on Public Policy,2019 (c.13000
words),
2019.
22. “Hume on What There Is,” Open
Journal of Philosophy (Scientific
Research Publications) Vol. 10, No
2, 2020, (c. 11800
words