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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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155Book 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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11Book Review: The Quest for Self-Determination (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 126-128. 1983.
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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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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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127Book 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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37Book 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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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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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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9Bunge contra PopperIn Mario Augusto Bunge, Michael R. Matthews, Guillermo M. Denegri, Eduardo L. Ortiz, Heinz W. Droste, Alberto Cordero, Pierre Deleporte, María Manzano, Manuel Crescencio Moreno, Dominique Raynaud, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe, Nicholas Rescher, Richard T. W. Arthur, Rögnvaldur D. Ingthorsson, Evandro Agazzi, Ingvar Johansson, Joseph Agassi, Nimrod Bar-Am, Alberto Cupani, Gustavo E. Romero, Andrés Rivadulla, Art Hobson, Olival Freire Junior, Peter Slezak, Ignacio Morgado-Bernal, Marta Crivos, Leonardo Ivarola, Andreas Pickel, Russell Blackford, Michael Kary, A. Z. Obiedat, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Luis Marone, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Francisco Yannarella, Mauro A. E. Chaparro, José Geiser Villavicencio- Pulido, Martín Orensanz, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Reinhard Kahle, Ibrahim A. Halloun, José María Gil, Omar Ahmad, Byron Kaldis, Marc Silberstein, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe & Villavicencio-Pulid (eds.), Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift, Springer Verlag. pp. 263-272. 2019.Most of our colleagues are either dogmatists or justificationists. This makes friendship with them a delicate matter: one constantly faces the dilemma of either doing them the curtesy of overlooking their faults, or offering them the service of readiness to criticize their opinions. Bunge is one of the few who make both friendship and criticism easy: he avoids both dogmas and justifications.
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92The word "brain-washing", translated from Chinese communist jargon, is a very strong metaphor, first popularized by Robert Jay Lifto n. It vividly describes one person interfering with the personality make-up of another, removing the other's ideology and replacing it, and similarly tampering with the other's tastes, pool of information to rely upon and whatever else goes into the make-up of the other's personality. Clearly, in some sense or another everyone interferes with the personality of peo…Read more
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1Joseph Agassi One Palestine, Two Nations Many are the problems that beset the tragically war-torn and forlorn Palestine. The extant proposed solutions to them all are few. They all relate to the framework of the establishment or the re-establishment of one, two, or three states. Let me list them first regardless of their value
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60The idea of verisimilitude is implicit in the writings of Albert Einstein ever since 1905, when he declared the distribution of field energy according to Maxwell's theory an approximation to that according to quantum-radiation theory, and Newtonian kinetic energy an approximation to his relativistic mass-energy. All his life Einstein presented new ideas as yielding older established ones as special cases and first approximations. The news has reached the philosophical community via the writings …Read more
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Announcement: Third Annual Conference of the Society for Exact PhilosophySynthese 26 (3/4): 518. 1974.
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50A Note on Smith's Term "Naturalism"Hume Studies 12 (1): 92-96. 1986.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:92 A NOTE ON SMITH'S TERM "NATURALISM" The reader of contemporary Hume literature may feel exasperated when reading recent authors. A conspicuous example is A.J. Ayer (Hume, 1982; see index, Art, Natural beliefs), who declares they endorse Kemp Smith's view of Hume's "naturalism" without sufficiently clarifying what they — or Smith — might exactly mean by this term. Charles W. Hendel, in the 1963 edition of his 1924 Studies in the Ph…Read more
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38Both a Popper biography and an autobiography, Agassi's "A Philosopher's Apprentice" tells the riveting story of his intellectual formation in 1950s London, a young brilliant philosopher struggling with an intellectual giant - father, mentor, and rival, all at the same time. His subsequent rebellion and declaration of independence leads to a painful break, never to be completely healed. No other writer has Agassi's psychological insight into Popper, and no other book captures like this one the in…Read more
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19The thesis or theses I wish to present here may, and hopefully should, sound rather trivial. The public role which concerned philosophers should take these days, I suppose, is somewhat similar to the role of preachers in earlier days, namely to state what should be obvious and treated as obvious but is nonetheless systematically overlooked.
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