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106Causality and MedicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 1 (4): 301-317. 1976.The philosophers of science who viewed causality as a metaphysical headache were right. Yet when they concluded that it is of no scientific import and of less practical import, they were clearly in error. I say clearly because they thereby recommended that we replace cause by mere empirical correlation, which obviously will not do. Here is an obvious example which proves them in error without even touching upon the question of what science is.
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9Review of Gregory Currie and Alan Musgrave: Popper and the human sciences (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (3): 414-418. 1987.
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Cognitive Development and Epistemology" by Theodore Mischel (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2 (4): 367. 1972.
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21Contemporary European Philosophy, After Half-a-Century (review)Polish Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 139-148. 2011.
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34Bye-bye, WeberPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (1): 102-109. 1991.Peter Lassman and Irving Velody, with Herminio Martins, eds., Max Weber's " Science as a Vocation ." Unwin Hyman, London, 1989. Pp. 213, US$49.95.
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151Comparability and incommensurabilitySocial Epistemology 17 (2 & 3). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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74Between science and technologyPhilosophy of Science 47 (1): 82-99. 1980.Basic research or fundamental research is distinct from both pure and applied research, in that it is pure research with expected useful results. The existence of basic or fundamental research is problematic, at least for both inductivists and instrumentalists, but also for Popper. Assuming scientific research to be the search for explanatory conjectures and for refutations, and assuming technology to be the search of conjectures and some corroborations, we can easily place basic or fundamental …Read more
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73The variety of languages in the world is considered a curse by some, who view the phenomenon as a Tower of Babel. Others consider it the most characteristic quality of human language as opposed to animal languages, which are supposedly species specific. The variety is viewed as a symptom of human caprice, arbitrariness, or dependence on mere historical accident by some; and as a symptom of human freedom and of the creative aspect of language by others. And, of course, the human limitation caused…Read more
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24Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of ScienceJournal of the History of Ideas 34 (4): 609. 1973.
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6BERARD, TJ,“Rethinking Practices and Structures,” 196. BUNGE, MARIO,“Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars by James Robert Brown”[Book Review], 250. COLLINS, RICHARD,“Broadcasting and Convergence. New Articulations of the (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (4): 523-525. 2005.
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45Back to the drawing boardPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (4): 509-518. 2005.Within ontology new theories are extremely rare. Hacking bravely claims to have one: "historical ontology" or "dynamic nominalism." Regrettably, he uses "nominalism" idiosyncratically, without explaining it or its qualifier. He does say what historical ontology is: it is "the presentation of the history of ontology in context." This idea is laudable, as it invites presenting idealism as once attractive but no longer so (due to changes in perception theory, for example). But this idea is a propos…Read more
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24Between the Under-Labourer and the Master-Builder: Observations on Bunge’s MethodScience & Education 21 (10): 1405-1418. 2012.
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13Book Review: The Unique in Popper’s Contribution to Philosophy by Alexander Naraniecki (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (6): 624-634. 2015.
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20Book Review: Tacit and Explicit KnowledgeCollinsHarryTacit and Explicit Knowledge. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010. xi + 182 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-11308-7 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (2): 275-279. 2013.
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6Book Review: The Quest for Self-DeterminationThe Quest for Self-Determination. By RonenDov. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 144. $17.50 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 126-128. 1983.
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12Book Review: The Quest for Self-Determination (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 126-128. 1983.
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26Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages , in Hebrew, Jerusalem, .1953, pp. 310. English translation, 1961.
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24Book Review: Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility: Freedom, Democracy, and National Identity by Christopher Adair-Toteff (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 50 (1): 82-88. 2020.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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128Book Review: Paul Feyerabend: ein Philosoph aus Wien, Edited by F. Stadler and KR Fischer (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences. forthcoming.
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25Book Review: How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Case of Cold War Rationality, by Paul Ericson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (2): 210-214. 2016.
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1Book Review: Essential Perplexities, An Inaugural LectureEssential Perplexities, An Inaugural Lecture. By NeedhamRodney. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 30. £0.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 116-117. 1983.
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26Bunge NeverthelessPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (4): 542-562. 2013.Mario Bunge offers here a political philosophy and a view of current politics as judged by his vision of an integrated democracy that is thoroughly green, quasi-communalist, participatory, and quasi-socialist; all enterprises there belong to their workers. He tempers his egalitarianism with some meritocracy. His vision is impracticable but deserves examination
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135Blame not the laws of natureFoundations of Science 1 (1): 131-154. 1995.1. Lies, Error and Confusion 2. Lies 3. The Demarcation of Science: Historical 4. The Demarcation of Science: Recent 5. Observed Regularities and Laws of Nature
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15Book review : Shlomo deshen, Charles S. Liebman, and Moshe shokeid, eds., Israeli judaism: The sociology of religion in Israel, studies of Israeli society, volume VII. Transaction publishers, new brunswick, nj, 1995. Pp. XIV + 386. $44.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 28 (3): 471-477. 1998.
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