AboutCharles K. MacKay Expertise I can answer a number of questions in philosophy; my academic concentrations (graduate school at Cornell) are ethics, political philosophy, and 19th-century German philosophy (Marx, Hegel, and hangers-on.)
Experience EDUCATION:
BA, New College, 1971, Philosophy and Religion
Awarded four graduate fellowships upon graduation
MA, Cornell University, 1974
Social and Political Philosophy, Danforth Fellowship
All course work and dissertation drafts completed for Ph.D. Cornell University, 1971-1975, Social and Political Philosophy, Danforth Fellowship
Courses in statistics and microeconomics, George Washington University and The American University, 1976-1978
EXPERIENCE:
Health Insurance Specialist 2005 - Present
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service
US Department of Health and Human Services
Allentown Business School Instructor (Computer Science) 2003 - 2005
Northampton Community College
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy 2003 -2005
Lehigh County Community College
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science
PUBLICATIONS:
Medicare Made Easy (with Charles B. Inlander) Addison-Wesley, 1989
Good Operations, Bad Operations (with Charles B. Inlander) Viking Press, 1993
Health Rebooted: Information Changes Everything (in press), 2008
can someone have relation with himself? (does it contradict the definition of relation?)
is it true to say that: If trait/name/attitude A is said about X, in relation to the X itself, then A would be substantial in X. then, can we conclude that A can not be relation wise(because it is substance wise) now we would face with a contradiction. so we can NOT say something about X in relation to X itself. therefore, X can not have relation with itself
is this reasoning right?
Answer This is one of those incredible tangles that medieval philosophy liked to get itself into one of the cases that Wittgenstein called [a] "...bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
This is a tangle of words, not of concepts.. Most philosophers would, today, want to approach the whole concept of "relation" through set theory.
