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Articles
- Definition and demonstration in the category of quantity and the ancient search for the definition of ratio, in P.R. Anstey and D. Bronstein, ed, Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant, Routledge, 2025, 47-70.
- ‘Let no‑one ignorant of geometry…’: Mathematical parallels for understanding the objectivity of ethics, Journal of Value Inquiry 57 (2023), 365-84.
- Lay involvement in the Australian Catholic Church, 1924–2023, Australasian Catholic Record 100 (4) (2023), 445-460.
- The global-local distinction vindicates Leibniz's theodicy, Theology and Science 20 (4) (2022).
- Catholic Action, Sydney Style: Catholic lay organisations from friendly societies to the Vice Squad, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 108 (2) (2022), 172-201.
- D. Müller, M. Chiodo and J. Franklin, A Hippocratic Oath for mathematicians? Mapping the landscape of ethics in mathematics, Science and Engineering Ethics 28 (2022).
- Mathematics as a science of non-abstract reality: Aristotelian realist philosophies of mathematics, Foundations of Science 27 (2022), 327-44.
- J.J. Joaquin and J. Franklin, A causal-mentalist view of propositions, Organon F 29 (2022), 47-77.
- Late scholastic probable arguments and their contrast with rhetorical and demonstrative arguments, Philosophical Inquiries 10 (2) (2022).
- Sydney 1803: When Catholics were tolerated and Freemasons banned, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 107 (2) (2021), 135-155.
- Quantifying risks: Traditions and practices in medieval Western Christian world, in M. Heiduk, ed, Prognostication in the Medieval World, De Gruyter, 2021 ... text
- Bayesian perspectives on mathematical practice, in B. Sriraman, ed, Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer, 2020.
- Antitheodicy and the grading of theodicies by moral offensiveness, Sophia 59 (2020), 563-576.
- Catholic rural virtue in Australia: ideal and reality, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 40 (2019), 39-61.
- Emergentism as an option in the philosophy of religion: Between materialist atheism and pantheism, Suri: Journal of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines 7 (2) (2019), 1-22.
- Pascal’s wager and the origins of decision theory: decision-making by real decision-makers, in Classic Philosophical Arguments: Pascal’s Wager, ed. P. Bartha and L. Pasternack, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 27-44.
- Mathematics, core of the past and hope of the future, in Reclaiming Education: Renewing Schools and Universities in Contemporary Western Society, ed. C. Runcie and D. Brooks (Edwin H. Lowe Publishing, 2018), 149-162.
- M. Walker and J. Franklin, An argument against drug testing welfare recipients, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28 (2018), 309-340.
- The Sydney intellectual/religious scene, 1916-2016, St Mark's Review no. 242 (Dec 2017), 20-55.
- Discrete and continuous: a fundamental dichotomy in mathematics, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 7 (2017), 355-378.
- Early modern mathematical principles and symmetry arguments, in The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought, ed. P. Anstey, Routledge, 2017, ch. 1.
- Prehistory of probability, in Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, ed. A. Hajek and C. Hitchcock, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 33-49.
- Catholic missions to Aboriginal Australia: An evaluation of their overall effect, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 37 (1) (2016), 45-68.
- Elliptical orbits and the Aristotelian scientific revolution, Studia Neoaristotelica 13 (2) (2016), 69-79.
- Logical probability and the strength of mathematical conjectures, Mathematical Intelligencer 38 (3) (Sept 2016), 14-19, ... full text.
- C. Legg and J. Franklin, Perceiving necessity, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (2017), 320-343.
- Uninstantiated properties and semi-Platonist Aristotelianism, Review of Metaphysics 69 (Sept 2015), 25-45 ... full text.
- Gerald Ridsdale, pedophile priest, in his own words, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 36 (2015), 219-230.
- Global and local, Mathematical Intelligencer 36 (4) (Dec 2014), 4-9 ... full text.
- Freedom from religion and freedom from irreligion, Connor Court Quarterly 9 (2014), 1-12.
- Quantity and number, in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, ed. D.D. Novotny and L. Novak (Routledge, New York and London, 2014), 221-44.
- Letter from Riga: World history, local level, New Criterion June 2014
- The mathematical world Aeon 7 Apr 2014
- Convent slave laundries? Magdalen asylums in Australia, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 34 (2013), 70-90.
- Probable opinion, in P. Anstey, ed, The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (OUP, Oxford, 2013), 349-372.
- Non-deductive logic in mathematics: the probability of conjectures, in A. Aberdein and I. Dove, eds, The Argument of Mathematics (Springer, Dordrecht, 2013), 11-29 ... full text.
- Arguments whose strength depends on continuous variation, Informal Logic 33 (2013), 33-56.
- Science matters in a post-modern world, in G. Johns, ed, Really Dangerous Ideas (Connor Court, 2013), 29-34.
- Memoirs by Australian priests, religious and ex-religious, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 33 (2012), 142-162 ...comment.
- Science by conceptual analysis: the genius of the late scholastics, Studia Neoaristotelica 9 (2012), 3-24.
- The lethal philosophy of Peter Singer, Quadrant 56 (9) (Sept 2012), 45-49. (shorter version in the Weekend Australian, 12 Oct 2012.)
- M. Burgman, J. Franklin, K.R. Hayes, G.R. Hosack, G.W. Peters & S.A. Sisson, Modeling extreme risks in ecology, Risk Analysis 32 (2012), 1956-1966.
- How much of legal and commonsense reasoning is formalizable? A review of conceptual obstacles, Law, Probability and Risk 11 (2012), 225-245.
- The missionary with 150 wives, Quadrant 56 (7/8), (July/Aug 2012), 31-32.
- A. Newstead and J. Franklin, Indispensability without Platonism, in Properties, Powers and Structures, ed. A. Bird, B. Ellis and H. Sankey (Routledge, New York, 2012), 81-97.
- Global justice: an anti-collectivist and pro-causal ethic, Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics, 2 (1) (2012).
- The objective Bayesian conceptualisation of proof and reference class problems, Sydney Law Review 33 (2011), 545-61.
- Aristotelianism in the philosophy of mathematics, Studia Neoaristotelica 8 (2011), 3-15.
- S.W.K. Chan and J. Franklin, A text-based decision support system for financial sequence prediction, Decision Support Systems, 52 (2011), 189-198.
- The complexity obstacle, Australian Literary Review 6 Apr 2011, 18-19.
- Caritas in Veritate: Economic Activity as Personal Encounter and the Economy of Gratuitousness, Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics 1 (1) (2011).
- The Grameen Bank and the way out of world poverty, Annals Australasia no. 122 (Apr/May 2011), 28-29.
- The postmodern calculus, New Criterion 29 (1) (Sept 2010), 75-80.
- Cardinal directions, Quadrant, July/Aug 2010.
- A. Newstead & J. Franklin, The epistemology of geometry I: the problem of exactness, ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, 2010, pp. 254-260.
- Feature selection methods for solving the reference class problem, Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Mar 2010.
- Aristotelian realism, chapter in The Philosophy of Mathematics, ed. A. Irvine (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science series, North-Holland Elsevier, 2009), 101-153.
- Calwell, Catholicism and the origins of multicultural Australia, Proc. of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 2009 Conference, 42-54.
- The lure of philosophy in Sydney, Quadrant, 53 (19) (Oct, 2009), 76-79.
- Evidence gained from torture: wishful thinking, checkability and extreme circumstances, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, 17 (2) (2009), 281-90.
- The cultural roots of Aboriginal violence, Quadrant 52 (11) (Nov, 2008), 22-25.
- Operational risk under Basel II: A model for extreme risk evaluation, Banking and Financial Services Policy Report 27 (10) (Oct 2008), 10-16.
- J. Franklin, S.A. Sisson, M.A. Burgman and J.K. Martin, Evaluating extreme risks in invasion ecology: learning from banking compliance, Diversity and Distributions 14 (2008), 581-91... story.
- A. Newstead and J. Franklin, On the reality of the continuum, Philosophy 83 (2008), 117-27.
- International compliance regimes: a public sector without restraints, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 9 (2) 2007, 86-95.
- Jenness Warin (with J. Franklin), Remote Aboriginal Communities: Why the trade in girls and other human rights abuses remain hidden, Bennelong Society occasional paper, 2007.
- (with S. Sisson) Assessment of strategies for evaluating extreme risks, ACERA report, Mar 2007.
- Case comment: quantification of the ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ standard, Law, Probability and Risk, 5 (2006).
- Australia’s wackiest postmodernists, Mercatornet, June 2006.
- Chapter on ‘Artifice and the natural world: Mathematics, logic, technology’ in Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Philosophy, ed. K. Haakonssen (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 817-53.
- Risk-driven global compliance regimes in banking and accounting: the new Law Merchant, Law, Probability and Risk 4 (2005), 237-50.
- Traditional Catholic philosophy - baby and bathwater, in Issues for Church and Society, ed. M. Whelan (St Pauls, 2006), 15-32.
- Preface to Enemy Aliens: The Internment of Italian Migrants During the Second World War
- A “Professional issues and ethics in mathematics” course, Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Soc 32 (2005), 98-100.
- Is Jensenism compatible with Christianity? Quadrant 48 (12) (Dec 2004), 30-1 ... Michael Jensen’s reply ... my response ... Sydney Anglicans forum
- On the parallel between mathematics and morals, Philosophy 79 (2004), 97-119.
- J. Franklin & S.C. Tueno, Low fertility among women graduates, People and Place 12 (1) (2004), 37-44.
- S. Campbell & J. Franklin, Randomness and induction, Synthese 138 (2004), 79-99.
- The representation of context: ideas from artificial intelligence, Law, Probability and Risk 2 (2003), 191-99.
- J. Franklin & S.C. Tueno, Graduate and childless, Quadrant 47 (7/8) (July/Aug, 2003), 52-55.
- S.W.K. Chan & J. Franklin, Dynamic context generation for natural language understanding: A multifaceted knowledge approach, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: A 33 (2003), 23-41.
- Stove’s discovery of the worst argument in the world, Philosophy 77 (2002), 615-24. (html)
- Two caricatures II: Leibniz’s best world, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 52 (2002), 45-56.
(Shorter version: Leibniz’s solution to the problem of evil, Think 5 (2003), 97-101)
- Immigration versus democracy, IPA Review 54 (2) (2002), 29.
- A “Professional issues” course: grounding philosophy in workplace realities, Pantaneto Forum 7 (2002).
- Resurrecting logical probability, Erkenntnis 55 (2001), 277-305.
- Regulated capitalism, market socialism , Dissent no. 5 (2001), 11-13.
- The Sokal hoax and postmodernist embarrassment, Continuum 14 (2000), 359-62.
- Thomas Kuhn's irrationalism New Criterion 18 (10) (June 2000), 29-34. (comment)
- Last bastion of reason, New Criterion 18 (9) (May 2000), 74-8.
- Diagrammatic reasoning and modelling in the imagination: the secret weapons of the Scientific Revolution, in 1543 and All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution, ed. G. Freeland & A. Corones (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000), pp. 53-115.
- The Sydney philosophy disturbances, Quadrant 43 (4) (Apr, 1999), 16-21.
- Accountancy as computational casuistics, Eureka Street 9 (1) (Jan/Feb, 1999), 2, 43-6... updated 2007 version (winner of Eureka Street Ethics Essay Competition; reprinted in Australian Accounting Review 9 (2) (July, 1999), 36-43, in Business and Professional Ethics Journal 17 (4) (Winter, 1998), 31-37 and in Values Autumn, 1999; excerpted in City Ethics 34 (Summer, 1999).)
- Catholics versus Masons, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 20 (1999), 1-15.
- S.W.K. Chan and J. Franklin, Symbolic connectionism in natural language disambiguation, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 9 (1998), 739-55.
- Two caricatures, I: Pascal’s Wager, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 44 (1998), 109-14. (Abstract)
- D.R. Bellhouse and J. Franklin, The language of chance, International Statistical Review 65 (1997), 73-85.
- Stove’s anti-Darwinism, Philosophy 72 (1997), 133-6.
- Where is mathematics going?, Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society 24 (1997), 114-9.
- How a neural net grows symbols, Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Canberra, 1996, 91-6.
- Catholic thought and Catholic Action: Dr Paddy Ryan MSC and the Red Peril, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 17 (1996), 44-55.
(Summary in ADB article on Ryan)
- The Sokal hoax, Philosopher 1 (4) (1996), 21-4.
Selected older publications:
- J. Franklin & R.J. Stove, eds,
Cricket versus Republicanism,
by D.C. Stove (Quakers Hill Press, Sydney, 1995) (with introduction
and bibliography by J. Franklin).
- The formal sciences discover the philosophers' stone,
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
25 (1994), 513-33 (Math Reviews's summary;
later
discussion)
- Achievements and fallacies in Hume's account of infinite divisibility,
Hume Studies
20 (1994), 85-101.
- R.K. Templeton & J. Franklin, Adaptive information and animal behaviour: why motorists stop at red traffic lights,
Evolutionary Theory 10 (1992), 145-55.
- Healthy scepticism,
Philosophy
66 (1991), 305-324.
- The ancient legal sources of seventeenth century probability, in
S. Gaukroger, ed,
The Uses of Antiquity
(Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991), 123-144.
- Mathematical necessity and reality,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
67 (1989), 286-294. (Abstract)
- Homomorphisms between Verma modules in characteristic p,
Journal of Algebra
112 (1988), 58-85.
(Abstract)
- Non-deductive logic in mathematics,
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
38 (1987), 1-18.
- Are dispositions reducible to categorical properties?
Philosophical Quarterly
36 (1986), 62-64.
- Aristotle on species variation
Philosophy
61 (1986), 245-52.
- Natural sciences as textual interpretation: the hermeneutics of the natural sign
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (1984), 509-20.
- Lit. crit. and non-fiction, Quadrant Oct 1984, 41-44.
- Mental furniture from the philosophers,
Et Cetera
40 (1983), 177-91.
- Philosophy and mathematical modelling,
Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications
2 (1983), 118-9.
- The Renaissance myth, Quadrant
26 (11) (Nov, 1982), 51-60.
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