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25An inductivist version of critical rationalismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (4): 458-465. 1994.
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125ANTHROPOMORPHISM is an inveterate tendency to project human qualities into natural phenomena—consciously or not. The standard and most important variant of anthropomorphism is animism which sees a soul in everything in nature. Before entering into the role of anthropomorphism in the history of science, let us consider a few important and usually neglected logical aspects of the idea.
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53A Hegelian view of complementarity (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 9 (33): 57-63. 1958.
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20A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics (edited book)Rodopi. 2008.This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge that there is an aesthetic aspect to anything whatsoever. They pay close attention to the social situatedness of the arts. Their aesthetics treats art as emerging from…Read more
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Agassi's Alleged ArbitrarinessStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 2 (2): 157. 1971.
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44Analogies as generalizationsPhilosophy of Science 31 (4): 351-356. 1964.Analogies have been traditionally recognized as a proper part of inductive procedures, akin to generalizations. Seldom, however, have they been presented as superior to generalizations, in the attainability of a higher degree of certitude for their conclusions or in other respects. Though Bacon definitely preferred analogy to generalization, the tradition seems to me to go the other way—until the recent publication of works by Mary B. Hesse and, perhaps, R. Harré.
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14Assurance and AgnosticismPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974. 1974.
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16ספר ויקרא, או תורת כוהנים, נראה היום פחות מעניין מאשר ספרי-קודש אחרים, כי הוא ספר מצוות - הוא כולל כארבעים אחוז מכל תרי"ג המצוות - ואף במידה רבה מצוות שאינן בתוקף מאז חורבן בית-המקדש. אך יש בו עניין, שכן הוא מוכר כספר השלם ביותר מבחינת סגנונו ותכנו, ואולי אף בכך שעריכתו כנראה עתיקה ביותר - לא לדעת דון יצחק אברבנאל, שכן הוא לא הטיל בספק כי תורה נתנה למשה מפי הגבורה - אמנם לא בסיני אך בכל-זאת למשה מפי הגבורה. החוקרים המתעלמים מדעה זו..
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14Science sans Subjectivity: The Sad Case of Imre LakatosPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 51 (5): 507-511. 2020.Lakatos claimed that Popper wrote of beliefs; thus ascribing subjectivism to him Popper flatly denied this, treating it a willful distortion.1 Ironically, it is the theory of Lakatos that is subjec...
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9Better a Bang than a WhimperMillerSeumasThe Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-76794-1 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (3): 390-396. 2013.
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14Book Review: The Rhetoric of Science (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 329-335. 1999.
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26Book Review: Harmon, J. E., and Gross, A. G. (Eds.). (2007). The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Chicago: the Chicago University Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (1): 122-123. 2009.
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4Bunge NeverthelessBungeMarioPolitical Philosophy: Fact, Fiction and Vision. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publications, 2009. Pp. x + 424 (review)Philosophy 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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32Book Review: Stadler, F., and Fischer, K. R., editors. (2006). Paul Feyerabend: ein Philosoph aus Wien. Vienna: Springer (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 303-305. 2008.
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55On the definition of lifeJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 25 (1). 1994.Schrödinger's definition of life needs a slight modification to absorb the criticism of it. It is the comparison of the entropy level of a system before and after a process which makes one view it as living: we consider the stability of the deviation from the probable a sign of life. This explains why we do not hesitate to consider as remnants of living systems skeletons and fossils anywhere and physical culture on any archeological site
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20Towards a rational philosophical anthropologyM. Nijhoff. 1977.The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual. (1) Present day philosophy of man and sciences of man suffer from the Greek mis taken polarization of everything human into nature and convention which is (allegedly) good and evil, which is (allegedly) truth and fal sity, which is (allegedly) rationality and irrationality, to wit, the polar ization of all fields of inquiry, the natural and social sciences, as well as ethics and all technology, whether natural or social, into the totally pos…Read more
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