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7Popper and His Popular Critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre LakatosImprint: Springer. 2014.This volume examines Popper's philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view of science as inductive. Starting from the assumption that Hume's criticism of induction is valid, the book explores the central criticism and objections that these three critics have raised. Their objections have met with great success, are significant and deserve paraphrase. One also may consider …Read more
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7Replies and Responses IIPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 53 (1): 72-78. 2023.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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7Review 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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6Replies and Responses IIPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 53 (1): 72-78. 2023.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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6Treading Water to Stay in the Same Place*Philosophy of the Social Sciences 51 (6): 600-603. 2021.
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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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6The contribution of Hans AlbertIn Giuseppe Franco (ed.), Begegnungen Mit Hans Albert: Eine Hommage, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 7-13. 2018.In the first place, Hans Albert is famous as the spokesperson of Karl Popper’s critical rationalism in the German-speaking world. This is chronologically a bit odd, given that Popper’s first vintage, his Logik der Forschung, appeared in German in 1935 and that his The Open Society and Its Enemies of 1945 appeared in German in 1958. Yet Albert did much to earn this fame: his decades-long indefatigable response to criticisms of Popper’s views in the post-war German philosophical literature and his…Read more
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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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6Alan Ross Anderson memorial fundInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 17 (1-4): 511-511. 1974.. Alan Ross Anderson memorial fund. Inquiry: Vol. 17, No. 1-4, pp. 511-511.
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5Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility: Freedom, Democracy, and National Identity (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 50 (1): 82-88. 2019.
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5The Future of Critical RationalismIn Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor (eds.), The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie, Springer Verlag. pp. 97-107. 2019.Hopefully, critical rationalism will improve. The best way to improve is to be open to criticism and respond to it with no defensiveness. Future criticism is unpredictable, but one can seek weak spots that invite criticism. It is not easy to view Popper’s institutionalism as minimal; it should be minimal in different ways, relative to diverse ends, theoretical and practical, just as critical rationalism is minimalist and as the minimum is relative to ends. Popper’s third world is a meta-institut…Read more
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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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4Raymond Aron’s ContributionsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 004839311989491. 2019.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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4The philosophy of practical affairs: an introductionLexington Books. 2023.This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twenty-first-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life?
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3Humor in Philosophical Contexts: Socratic IronyThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1 (1): 185-189. 2020.It is hard to say what the focus of the difficulty here is: the very idea of a sense of proportion or the idea that a sense of humor is an ideal vehicle for it. Both are puzzling. As having the one without the other is quite possible, this is only a feel that the two go well together.
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3Replies and ResponsesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 52 (6): 388-392. 2022.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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2For 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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2Book 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.
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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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2Book Review: The Quest for Self-Determination (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 126-128. 1983.
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2Recent Publications on the Philosophy of ScienceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (38): 172-176. 1959.
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2Book 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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