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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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171Koyré on the history of cosmology (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 9 (35): 234-245. 1958.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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62Between 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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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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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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