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3Book Reviews : Understanding Cultures, Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. By ROBERT C. ULIN. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. Pp. xvii + 200. U.S. $19.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 17 (2): 278-283. 1987.
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1Wayne A. Patterson, Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism (review)Philosophy in Review 14 44-45. 1994.
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2Book Reviews : David Gooding, Trevor Pinch, and Simon Schaffer, eds., The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Pp. xvii, 467, £50 (cloth), £19.50 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (2): 266-268. 1992.
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21The Unity of Hume's ThoughtHume Studies 1985 (1): 87-109. 1985.This is the beginning of an integrated image of Hume's person, thought, and actions as a conservative liberal reformist.
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The Theory and Practice of Critical RationalismBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 160 1-1. 1994.
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Twenty years afterIn Nancy J. Nersessian (ed.), The Process of science: contemporary philosophical approaches to understanding scientific practice, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1987.
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100The logic of scientific inquirySynthese 26 (3-4). 1974.Is methodological theory a priori or a posteriori knowledge? It is perhaps a posteriori improvable, somehow. For example, Duhem discovered that since scientists disagree on methods, they do not always know what they are doing. How is methodological innovation possible? If it is inapplicable in retrospect, then it is not universal and so seems defective; if it is, then there is a miracle here. Even so, the new explicit awareness of rules previously implicitly known is in itself beneficial. And so…Read more
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32The structure of the quantum revolution (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (3): 367-381. 1983.A century and a half ago James Spedding wrote a two-volume review of Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon’. That review inaugurated a career dedicated to the study of Bacon, including a biography that is still, perhaps, the best extant, and the preparation of the collected works-by Ellis, Spedding, and Heath-which is still the standard edition in Bacon scholarship. Had I treated Kuhn’s new book with a similar degree of attention, the result would be a book-length study of Max Planck and his contribution to…Read more
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Criticism of the welfare state is mostly economic and administrative, relating to the resultant national debt and state bureaucracy. Budget cuts and privatization may help but not eliminate the difficulty. Yet, the primary concern of the welfare system is neither economic nor administrative; so, the force of this criticism is limited. To restrict the discussion to the defunct free-markets and centralized economies is to distort and to obstruct clear thinking on national priorities. Criticism of …Read more
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The Role of Corroboration in Popper's MethodologyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 39 (n/a): 82. 1961.
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59The structure of scientific revolutionsJournal of the History of Philosophy 4 (4): 351-354. 1966.
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3Book Review: The Rhetoric of Science (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 329-335. 1999.
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91The place of metaphysics in the historiography of scienceFoundations of Physics 26 (4): 483-499. 1996.Legitimating the use of metaphysics in scientific research constituted a farreaching methodological revolution, invalidating the inductivist demands that science be guided by empirical information alone. Thus, science became tentative. The revolution was established when pioneering historians of science, Max Jammer among them, exhibited the working of metaphysics in scientific research. This raises many problems, since most metaphysical ideas are poor as compared with scientific ones. Yet taking…Read more
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80The role of the philosopher among the scientists: Nuisance or necessity?Social Epistemology 3 (4). 1989.1. Where is the trouble? Let us take it for granted that a person can be interested in researches that go on in different fields, for example, in physics and in psychology. Undoubtedly, this will raise problems not shared by a person whose research is confined to one field only. There may be difficulty in deciding which of the two is that person's primary field of interest; members of his secondary field of interest may be flattered or feel slighted or even threatened by his intrusion into their…Read more
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47The philosophy of common sensePhilosophia 17 (4): 421-438. 1987.Philosophers wanted commonsense to fight skepticism. They hypostasized and destroyed it. Commonsense is skeptical--Bound by a sense of proportion and of limitation. A scarce commodity, At times supported, At times transcended by science, Commonsense has to be taken account of by the critical-Realistic theory of science. James clerk maxwell's view of today's science as tomorrow's commonsense is the point of departure. It is wonderful but overlooks the value of the sense of proportion
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19The Novelty of Popper’s Philosophy of ScienceInternational Philosophical Quarterly 8 (3): 442-463. 1968.
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46The Problem of Analytic PhilosophyPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (5): 413-433. 2019.Dainton and Robinson’s Companion traces lines of descent of analytic philosophy from ancestors. They characterize analytic philosophy as a movement, a tradition, a style, and a commitment to the va...
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9Theories of rationalityIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 249--263. 1987.
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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