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10DiscussionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 39 (1). 1961.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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12Book Review: The Quest for Self-Determination (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 126-128. 1983.
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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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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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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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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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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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21Contemporary European Philosophy, After Half-a-Century (review)Polish Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 139-148. 2011.
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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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14Book Review: The Rhetoric of Science (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 329-335. 1999.
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151Comparability and incommensurabilitySocial Epistemology 17 (2 & 3). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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127Book Review: Paul Feyerabend: ein Philosoph aus Wien, Edited by F. Stadler and KR Fischer (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences. forthcoming.
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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