Nicholaos Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholaos Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholaos |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4928-5089 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prolegomenon for Fazang’s Essay on the Golden Lion
Fazang is a seminal figure for the tradition of Huayan Buddhism. Essay on the Golden Lion is the most widely translated into English of his writings. Yet systematic English-language scholarship on Fazang’s Essay is relatively sparse. Scholars agree that the central focus of the Essay is the relation between principle and thing — a relation akin to the one between emptiness and form and, according to Fazang, also akin to the relation between the g…
A Buddhist approach to moral knowledge without god
Mereological Composition in Analytic and Buddhist Perspective
Comparing Buddhist and contemporary analytic views about mereological composition reveals significant dissimilarities about the purposes that constrain successful answers to mereological questions, the kinds of considerations taken to be probative in justifying those answers, and the value of mereological inquiry. I develop these dissimilarities by examining three questions relevant to those who deny the existence of composite wholes. The first i…
A Russellian Analysis of Buddhist Catuskoti
Names name, but there are no individuals who are named by names. This is the key to an elegant and ideologically parsimonious strategy for analyzing the Buddhist catuṣkoṭi. The strategy is ideologically parsimonious, because it appeals to no analytic resources beyond those of standard predicate logic. The strategy is elegant, because it is, in effect, an application of Bertrand Russell's theory of definite descriptions to Buddhist contexts. The s…
An Account of Generous Action and Esteem in Pāli Buddhism
I propose an account of generous action in the Pāli Buddhist tradition, whereby generous actions are instances of giving in which the donor has esteem for the recipient of their giving. The account differs from recent Anglophone accounts of generous action. These tend to construe generous actions as instances of a donor freely offering a gift to the recipient for the sake of benefiting the recipient. Unlike the Buddhist account I propose, these a…
Network analyses in systems biology
Strategies of Explanatory Abstraction in Molecular Systems Biology
I consider three explanatory strategies from recent systems biology that are driven by mathematics as much as mechanistic detail. Analysis of differential equations drives the first strategy; topological analysis of network motifs drives the second; mathematical theorems from control engineering drive the third. I also distinguish three abstraction types: aggregations, which simplify by condensing details; generalizations, which simplify by gener…
Inference to the More Robust Explanation
There is a new argument form within theoretical biology. This form takes as input competing explanatory models; it yields as output the conclusion that one of these models is more plausible than the others. The driving force for this argument form is an analysis showing that one model exhibits more parametric robustness than its competitors. This article examines these inferences to the more robust explanation, analysing them as variants of infer…
Race as technology
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p39As tecnologias de Cyborg e próteses enquadram abordagens pós-humanistas proeminentes para entender a natureza da raça. Mas esses quadros lutam para acomodar os fenômenos da passagem racial e da estacionança racial, e sua orientação pós-humanista encobre distinções úteis entre os seres humanos racializados e seus contextos sociais. Defendemos, em vez disso, uma abordagem humanista da raça, entendendo…
General Relativity and the Standard Model
Fazang's Total Power Mereology
In his _Treatise on the Golden Lion_, Fazang says that wholes are _in_ each of their parts and that each part of a whole _is_ every other part of the whole. In this paper, I offer an interpretation of these remarks according to which they are not obviously false, and I use this interpretation in order to rigorously reconstruct Fazang's arguments for his claims. On the interpretation I favor, Fazang means that the presence of a whole's part suffic…
The Logic of Soku in the Kyoto School
Can contradictions be meaningful? How can one assert 'P soku not-P' or 'P and yet not-P' without sacrificing intelligibility? Expanding on previous attempts, mainly by Dilworth and Heisig, to demystify the soku connective, a formal system is presented here for the logic of soku. Through a formal distinction between internal and external negation, grammatical features of the soku connective are shown to be logically irrelevant, and the principle o…
Network analyses in systems biology
Inference to the More Robust Explanation
There is a new argument form within theoretical biology. This form takes as input competing explanatory models; it yields as output the conclusion that one of these models is more plausible than the others. The driving force for this argument form is an analysis showing that one model exhibits more parametric robustness than its competitors. This article examines these inferences to the more robust explanation, analysing them as variants of infer…
Race as technology
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p39As tecnologias de Cyborg e próteses enquadram abordagens pós-humanistas proeminentes para entender a natureza da raça. Mas esses quadros lutam para acomodar os fenômenos da passagem racial e da estacionança racial, e sua orientação pós-humanista encobre distinções úteis entre os seres humanos racializados e seus contextos sociais. Defendemos, em vez disso, uma abordagem humanista da raça, entendendo…
The Logic of Soku in the Kyoto School
Can contradictions be meaningful? How can one assert 'P soku not-P' or 'P and yet not-P' without sacrificing intelligibility? Expanding on previous attempts, mainly by Dilworth and Heisig, to demystify the soku connective, a formal system is presented here for the logic of soku. Through a formal distinction between internal and external negation, grammatical features of the soku connective are shown to be logically irrelevant, and the principle o…
General Relativity and the Standard Model
Fazang's Total Power Mereology
In his _Treatise on the Golden Lion_, Fazang says that wholes are _in_ each of their parts and that each part of a whole _is_ every other part of the whole. In this paper, I offer an interpretation of these remarks according to which they are not obviously false, and I use this interpretation in order to rigorously reconstruct Fazang's arguments for his claims. On the interpretation I favor, Fazang means that the presence of a whole's part suffic…
Race as technology
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n2p39As tecnologias de Cyborg e próteses enquadram abordagens pós-humanistas proeminentes para entender a natureza da raça. Mas esses quadros lutam para acomodar os fenômenos da passagem racial e da estacionança racial, e sua orientação pós-humanista encobre distinções úteis entre os seres humanos racializados e seus contextos sociais. Defendemos, em vez disso, uma abordagem humanista da raça, entendendo…
Network analyses in systems biology
Strategies of Explanatory Abstraction in Molecular Systems Biology
I consider three explanatory strategies from recent systems biology that are driven by mathematics as much as mechanistic detail. Analysis of differential equations drives the first strategy; topological analysis of network motifs drives the second; mathematical theorems from control engineering drive the third. I also distinguish three abstraction types: aggregations, which simplify by condensing details; generalizations, which simplify by gener…
Inference to the More Robust Explanation
There is a new argument form within theoretical biology. This form takes as input competing explanatory models; it yields as output the conclusion that one of these models is more plausible than the others. The driving force for this argument form is an analysis showing that one model exhibits more parametric robustness than its competitors. This article examines these inferences to the more robust explanation, analysing them as variants of infer…
A Russellian Analysis of Buddhist Catuskoti
Names name, but there are no individuals who are named by names. This is the key to an elegant and ideologically parsimonious strategy for analyzing the Buddhist catuṣkoṭi. The strategy is ideologically parsimonious, because it appeals to no analytic resources beyond those of standard predicate logic. The strategy is elegant, because it is, in effect, an application of Bertrand Russell's theory of definite descriptions to Buddhist contexts. The s…
An Account of Generous Action and Esteem in Pāli Buddhism
I propose an account of generous action in the Pāli Buddhist tradition, whereby generous actions are instances of giving in which the donor has esteem for the recipient of their giving. The account differs from recent Anglophone accounts of generous action. These tend to construe generous actions as instances of a donor freely offering a gift to the recipient for the sake of benefiting the recipient. Unlike the Buddhist account I propose, these a…
Mereological Composition in Analytic and Buddhist Perspective
Comparing Buddhist and contemporary analytic views about mereological composition reveals significant dissimilarities about the purposes that constrain successful answers to mereological questions, the kinds of considerations taken to be probative in justifying those answers, and the value of mereological inquiry. I develop these dissimilarities by examining three questions relevant to those who deny the existence of composite wholes. The first i…
A Buddhist approach to moral knowledge without god
Prolegomenon for Fazang’s Essay on the Golden Lion
Fazang is a seminal figure for the tradition of Huayan Buddhism. Essay on the Golden Lion is the most widely translated into English of his writings. Yet systematic English-language scholarship on Fazang’s Essay is relatively sparse. Scholars agree that the central focus of the Essay is the relation between principle and thing — a relation akin to the one between emptiness and form and, according to Fazang, also akin to the relation between the g…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Buddhism (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works)