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35Newell's listBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (5): 601-602. 2003.Newell wanted a theory of cognition to abide by some explicit criteria, here called the Newell Test. The test differs from the Turing Test because it is explicit. The Newell Test will include the Turing Test if its characterization of cognition is complete. It is not. Its use here is open-ended: A system that does not pass it well invites improvement.
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3For Public Responsibility for Spaceship EarthThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 29 13-18. 1998.The present global political situation is serious and desperately invites public awareness and concern. Global problems cannot be solved locally; they must be studied locally with an eye towards a mass-movement that would raise awareness of the severity of the problems as well as the absence of viable solutions. A comprehensive view should evolve through critical discussions regarding both problems and possible solutions. The movement must seek to create minimal scientific literacy. The movement…Read more
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171Koyré on the history of cosmology (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 9 (35): 234-245. 1958.
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FregeIn Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Attempt at a Critical Rationalist Appraisal, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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28False prophecy versus true Quest a modest challenge to contemporary relativistsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (3): 285-312. 1992.A good theory of rationality should accommodate debates over first principles, such as those of rationality. The modest challenge made in this article is that relativists try to explain the (intellectual) value of some debates about first principles (absolute presuppositions, basic assumptions, intellectual frameworks, intellectual commitments, and paradigms). Relativists claim to justify moving with relative ease from one framework to another, translating chunks of one into the other; this tech…Read more
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113Epistemology as an aid to science: Comments on dr Buchdahl's paperBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (38): 135-146. 1959.
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46Abstract and Introduction. This essay is an attempt to dispense with the negative aspects of Romanticism and examine whatever positive it has to offer--in the light of ideas scattered through diverse writings of Ernest Gellner
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23Self- Deception in General "A Liberal Decalogue" suggests (Russell, 1967, pp. 60-61) not to envy people who live in a fool's paradise: It is a place only for fools. This saying invites detailed commentary. A fool's paradise is not a place, but a state o f mind; it is a system of opinions, of assessments of situations, that calms one down, that reassures one into the opinion that all is well, even when all is far from well. Fools may be ignorant of the severity of their situations, perhaps becaus…Read more
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10DiscussionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 39 (1). 1961.This Article does not have an abstract
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2Charles Taylor, Philosophical Papers. Vol. 1: Human Agency and Language. Vol. II: Philosophy and the Human Sciences Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 6 (1): 35-38. 1986.
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11Corroboration Spurious and GenuinePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 93 (1): 81. 2007.
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12Callipolis RevisitedLongChristopher P.Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvi +198 pp. $90. ISBN 9781107040359 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 47 (2): 162-174. 2017.
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22Summary and conclusions As a new field, cognitivism began with the total rejection of the old, traditional views of language acquisition and of learning -- individual and collective alike. Chomsky was one of the pioneers in this respect, yet he clouds issues by excessive claim s for his originality and by not allowing the beginner in the art of the acquisition of language the use of learning by making hypotheses and testing them, though he acknowledges that researchers, himself included, do use …Read more
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124Current Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (2): 278-294. 2011.This Companion to the philosophy of science reflects fairly well the gloomy state of affairs in this subfield at its best—concerns, problems, prejudices, and all. The field is still stuck with the problem of justification of science, refusing to admit that there is neither need nor possibility to justify science and forbid dissent from it
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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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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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