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9Delaware Seminar in the Foundations of Physics, and Quantum Theory and RealityPhilosophy of Science 39 (2): 263-265. 1972.
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84Review: Koyré on the History of Cosmology (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 9 (35). 1958.
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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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15Science 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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10Better 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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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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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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6The 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. 2018.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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10Bunge 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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16Ernst Gombrich, Karl Popper und die KunsttheorieIn Giuseppe Franco (ed.), Handbuch Karl Popper, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 667-678. 2019.Der Kunsthistoriker Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich hat einen „wissenschaftlichen“ oder kognitiven Ansatz zur Erforschung der Geschichte und Psychologie der Künste entwickelt, der sehr maßgeblich von der Wissenschaftstheorie seines engen Freundes Karl Popper beeinflusst worden ist. Die geistige Nähe zwischen beiden wird in Gombrichs zentraler Arbeit zur Wiederentdeckung der Repräsentation in der Renaissance und zur Historiografie der Kunst deutlich. Ihre Differenzen verdienen allerdings ebenfalls Beac…Read more
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3For 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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4Raymond Aron’s ContributionsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 004839311989491. 2019.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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6Raymond 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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85Duhem versus Galileo (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 8 (31): 237-248. 1957.
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64Łukasiewicz and Popper on InductionHistory and Philosophy of Logic 31 (4): 381-388. 2010.We compare Jan ?ukasiewicz's and Karl Popper's views on induction. The English translation of the two ?ukasiewicz's papers is included in the Appendix
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8Diagnosis: Philosophical and Medical PerspectivesSpringer. 1990.1. GENERAL The term "diagnostics" refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It borrows from different sciences and from different philosophies. Traditionally, the general framework of diagnostics was not distinguished from the framework of medicine. It was not taught in special courses in any systematic way; it was not accorded special attention: students absorbed it intuitively. There is almost no comprehensive study of dia…Read more
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17Avoiding the posts: Reply to FriedmanCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 8 (1): 95-111. 1994.The ill?named debate between postmodernists and postlibertarians should be transcended; this requires the abandonment of both foundationalism and its converse, without abandoning common sense as well (which is no mean trick). Similarly, the debate over ?minimal statism? versus the planned economy is outdated. Instead of claiming to be in possession of foundations of our scientific?cum?political knowledge in broad terms, and instead of severely limiting our knowledge to given proofs, we offer the…Read more
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12The choice of problems and the limits of reasonIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 281--296. 1987.
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14Magic and rationality againIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 385--394. 1987.
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48Slaves in Plato's lawsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (3): 315-347. 2007.Tel-Aviv University and York University, Toronto Plato suggested ways to regulate and integrate slaves within the legal system of his Utopian Cretan polis Magnesia as described in his work, Laws . This text alone invalidates most criticism of Popper's presentation of Plato's political views. His 50-year-old reading of Plato fits the text better than any other. To preserve the noble tradition of classical scholarship, classical scholars should acknowledge explicitly that he was correct, and that …Read more
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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