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44Reciprocity in the uncertainty relationsPhilosophy of Science 40 (1): 52-58. 1973.A philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics presupposes a clear understanding of what is asserted by this theory. The aim of this paper is to help clarify one specific theorem of quantum mechanics, namely the so-called uncertainty relations. The surprisingly wide spread belief that these relations generally imply a reciprocal or inversely proportional relationship between the respective uncertainties is shown to be mistaken. Several reasons why this mistaken belief has been embraced are …Read more
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10Problems of information in Dialectical MaterialismStudies in Soviet Thought 8 (2-3): 105-121. 1968.
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Objective symmetries, subjectivist interpretations and other reflections (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 4 (2): 193. 1973.
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36Problems of information in dialectical materialismStudies in East European Thought 8 (2-3): 105-121. 1968.
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11Paul Hoyningen-Huene. Systematicity: The Nature of Science. xiii + 287 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013. $65 (review)Isis 105 (1): 257-258. 2014.
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37On the kinship of cybernetics to dialectical materialismStudies in East European Thought 6 (1): 37-41. 1966.
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16Neopositivism, Marxism, and idealization: Some comments on Professor Nowak's paperStudies in Soviet Thought 30 (3): 219-235. 1985.The paper is a discussion of the idealizational interpretation of the dialectical Marxist methodology of science which has been worked out and applied in a diversity of ways by L. Nowak and the other members of the so-called Poznań school. I examine the sense in which, and the extent to which, this methodology is or can be said to be dialectical. Subsequently, I discuss and criticize Nowak's claim that this methodology can function at the same time as a meta-methodology; I do this in connection …Read more
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14On the kinship of cybernetics to Dialectical MaterialismStudies in Soviet Thought 6 (1): 37-41. 1966.
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38Neuere probleme einer sozialistischen moraltheorie, IIStudies in East European Thought 9 (3): 184-209. 1969.
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10Moral and Other Responsibilities of Science and TechnologySocial Philosophy Today 6 89-109. 1991.
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13Neuere Probleme einer sozialistischen Moraltheorie, IStudies in Soviet Thought 9 (2): 112-142. 1969.
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45Neopositivism, marxism, and idealization: Some comments on professor Nowak's paperStudies in East European Thought 30 (3): 219-235. 1985.The paper is a discussion of the idealizational interpretation of the dialectical Marxist methodology of science which has been worked out and applied in a diversity of ways by L. Nowak and the other members of the so-called Pozna school. I examine the sense in which, and the extent to which, this methodology is or can be said to be dialectical. Subsequently, I discuss and criticize Nowak's claim that this methodology can function at the same time as a meta-methodology; I do this in connection w…Read more
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10Neuere Probleme einer sozialistischen Moraltheorie, IIStudies in Soviet Thought 9 (3): 184-209. 1969.
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49Local and normative rationality of science: The 'content of discovery' rehabilitated (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 22 (1): 61-72. 1991.Summary The recent turn to the âcontext of discoveryâ and other âpostmodernistâ developments in the philosophy of science have undermined the idea of a universal rationality of science. This parallels the fate of the classical dream of a logic of discovery. Still, justificational questions have remained as a distinct perspective, though comprising both consequential and generative justification â an insight delayed by certain confusions about the (original) context distinction. An exam…Read more
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28Neuere probleme einer sozialistischen moraltheorie, IStudies in East European Thought 9 (2): 112-142. 1969.
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35Moral and Other Responsibilities of Science and TechnologySocial Philosophy Today 6 89-109. 1991.
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126“Intrinsically” or just “Instrumentally” Valuable? On Structural Types of Values of Scientific KnowledgeJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 32 (2): 237-256. 2001.Debates about scientific (though rarely about otherforms of) knowledge, research policies or academic trainingoften involve a controversy about whether scientificknowledge possesses just “instrumental” value or also “intrinsic” value. Questioning this common simpleopposition, I scrutinize the issues involved in terms of agreater variety of structural types of values attributableto (scientific) knowledge. (Intermittently, I address thepuzzling habit of attributing “intrinsic” value to quitediffer…Read more
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10A Scientific Ontology (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1): 183-197. 1981.Mario BUNGE: Ontology I. The Furniture of the World, Dordrecht: Reidel 1977 (Treatise on Basic Philosophy, Vol. 3); Ontology II. A World of Systems, Dordrecht: Reidel 1979.
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7Ecology, Ethics, Science and the Intrinsic Value of Thingsder 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2 746-752. 1983.Many have argued for a new, environmental or ecolegical ethics. Can nature, or natural science, provide the basic principles for such an ethics? Or, can the issues involved be adequately analysed in terms of rights, interests, and duties to future generations? The papor explores the idea of an intrinsic value of what exists in nature with respect to these questions, especially those of Conservation and preservation. The idea can provide a supplementary basis for an ethics of preservation, leadin…Read more
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66Does the anthropic principle live up to scientific standards?Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 8 (2): 21-48. 1992.