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8Ball, Philip., Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in EverythingReview of Metaphysics 67 (1): 149-150. 2013.
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7On the possibility of rationality: Some comments on Roger Trigg's 'reason and commitment'Philosophy of the Social Sciences 6 (2): 155-163. 1976.
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7Everyone Can Understand Quantum Mechanics-Really? (review)Science & Education 26 (7-9): 1079-1083. 2017.
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7A Rational Animal and Other Philosophical Essays on the Nature of Man (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (4): 448-452. 1982.
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7On making sense: Some comments on Polanyi's and Prosch's meaning (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (2): 209-219. 1979.
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7The Tyranny in Science: The Case of Hugh Everett’s Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum MechanicsIn Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor (eds.), The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie, Springer Verlag. pp. 225-239. 2019.Hugh Everett’s “Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”, though endorsed and promoted by his mentor John Wheeler, was dismissed by the mainstream in quantum mechanics. Why was it sidelined by those who endorsed the Copenhagen interpretation and John von Neumann’s approach to the famous measurement problem? Everett’s theory was taken up later by Bryce DeWitt under an interpretation, the many worlds universe theory, that is not actually how Everett interpreted his own formulation. …Read more
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6A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific CultureCambridge Sholars Publishing. 2020.Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people frustrated by smart machines? Computers don’t fit people. People think in terms of comparisons, stories, and analogies, and seek feedback, whereas computers are based on a fundamental design that does not fit with analogical and feedback thinking. They impose a binary, an all-or-nothing, approach to everything. Moreover, the social world and institutions that have developed aroun…Read more
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6Book Review: Language and ResponsibilityLanguage and Responsibility. By ChomskyNoam. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1979. £10.50 , £3.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 109-114. 1983.
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5Book Reviews : Raphael Sassower, Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience. Routledge Kegan Paul, New York, 1995. $52.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (4): 545-551. 1997.
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5Book Review: Towards Discursive Education, Philosophy, Technology, and Modern Education (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (5): 702-704. 2014.
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5Book Reviews : The Economist's View of the World: Government, Markets, & Public Policy. BY STEVEN E. RHOADS. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 416. U.S. $12.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (3): 424-426. 1988.
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5Review of Turner (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (5): 434-439. 2019.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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4Challenges to HumanismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 53 (6): 491-496. 2023.Joseph Agassi develops a humanist world view in his last single-authored book through confronting the challenges facing the humanist world view. The three challenges that Agassi confronts are: 1. how do we rationally choose ways of life, including the life of rationality? 2. is humanity worthwhile? 3. how can we improve liberal democracy in our fractured societies where extremists seek to gain control?
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4The ethics of information Luciano Floridi oxford: Oxford university press, 2013; 357 pp.; £30.00 (review)Dialogue 54 (2): 402-404. 2015.
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4Book Reviews : Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. BY MICHEL FOUCAULT. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980. Pp. 240. $5.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3): 369-371. 1985.
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3Science and spirituality: Making room for faith in the age of sciencemichael Ruse cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2014; 264 pp.; $23.95 (review)Dialogue 54 (3): 581-583. 2015.
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3Hilary Putnam, Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 37 (4): 155-156. 2017.
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2Book Reviews : The Way of Discovery, An Introduction to the Thought of Michael Polanyi. By Richard Gelwick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 181. $14.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (3): 390-395. 1979.
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2Book Reviews : Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Volume 2: The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences. BY ROY BHASKAR. Humanities Press: New Jersey 1979. Pp. ix + 228. $28.75 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (2): 235-236. 1985.
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2William Berkson and John Wettersten, Learning from Error: Karl Popper's Psychology of Learning Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 7 (1): 1-3. 1987.
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1Book Reviews : George W. Ladd, Imagination in Research: An Economist's View. Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1987. Pp. 146, $10.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20 (3): 414-416. 1990.
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The Hazard Called Education by Joseph AgassiBrill. 2014.Joseph Agassi is known primarily among fellow academics as an exemplary historian and philosopher of science; an ardent critic and disciple of Karl Popper; a critical admirer of the work of Michael Polanyi; and a Socratic fly with the “sting of a bee” for all those who wear the intellectual fashions of the day. To most of Agassi’s students he is known primarily as an exemplary model of the Socratic teacher. The question of most urgency for educators today who care about the intellectual developm…Read more
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Karl Popper, Knowledge and The Body-Mind Problem: In defence of interaction Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (3): 197-199. 1995.
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An Evaluation of Gombrich's Critique of AestheticsDissertation, Boston University Graduate School. 1976.
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