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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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26Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages , in Hebrew, Jerusalem, .1953, pp. 310. English translation, 1961.
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26Book Review: Harmon, J. E., and Gross, A. G. (Eds.). (2007). The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Chicago: the Chicago University Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (1): 122-123. 2009.
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24Book Review: Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility: Freedom, Democracy, and National Identity by Christopher Adair-Toteff (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 50 (1): 82-88. 2020.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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15Book review : Shlomo deshen, Charles S. Liebman, and Moshe shokeid, eds., Israeli judaism: The sociology of religion in Israel, studies of Israeli society, volume VII. Transaction publishers, new brunswick, nj, 1995. Pp. XIV + 386. $44.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 28 (3): 471-477. 1998.
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37Book Review: How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Case of Cold War Rationality, by Paul Ericson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (2): 210-214. 2016.
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2Book Review: Essential Perplexities, An Inaugural LectureEssential Perplexities, An Inaugural Lecture. By NeedhamRodney. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 30. £0.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 116-117. 1983.
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26Bunge NeverthelessPhilosophy 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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Announcement: Third Annual Conference of the Society for Exact PhilosophySynthese 26 (3/4): 518. 1974.
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60The idea of verisimilitude is implicit in the writings of Albert Einstein ever since 1905, when he declared the distribution of field energy according to Maxwell's theory an approximation to that according to quantum-radiation theory, and Newtonian kinetic energy an approximation to his relativistic mass-energy. All his life Einstein presented new ideas as yielding older established ones as special cases and first approximations. The news has reached the philosophical community via the writings …Read more
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38A Philosopher's Apprentice: In Karl Popper's WorkshopRodopi. 2008.Both a Popper biography and an autobiography, Agassi's "A Philosopher's Apprentice" tells the riveting story of his intellectual formation in 1950s London, a young brilliant philosopher struggling with an intellectual giant - father, mentor, and rival, all at the same time. His subsequent rebellion and declaration of independence leads to a painful break, never to be completely healed. No other writer has Agassi's psychological insight into Popper, and no other book captures like this one the in…Read more
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134Blame not the laws of natureFoundations of Science 1 (1): 131-154. 1995.1. Lies, Error and Confusion 2. Lies 3. The Demarcation of Science: Historical 4. The Demarcation of Science: Recent 5. Observed Regularities and Laws of Nature
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25An inductivist version of critical rationalismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (4): 458-465. 1994.
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19The thesis or theses I wish to present here may, and hopefully should, sound rather trivial. The public role which concerned philosophers should take these days, I suppose, is somewhat similar to the role of preachers in earlier days, namely to state what should be obvious and treated as obvious but is nonetheless systematically overlooked.
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92The word "brain-washing", translated from Chinese communist jargon, is a very strong metaphor, first popularized by Robert Jay Lifto n. It vividly describes one person interfering with the personality make-up of another, removing the other's ideology and replacing it, and similarly tampering with the other's tastes, pool of information to rely upon and whatever else goes into the make-up of the other's personality. Clearly, in some sense or another everyone interferes with the personality of peo…Read more
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50A Note on Smith's Term "Naturalism"Hume Studies 12 (1): 92-96. 1986.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:92 A NOTE ON SMITH'S TERM "NATURALISM" The reader of contemporary Hume literature may feel exasperated when reading recent authors. A conspicuous example is A.J. Ayer (Hume, 1982; see index, Art, Natural beliefs), who declares they endorse Kemp Smith's view of Hume's "naturalism" without sufficiently clarifying what they — or Smith — might exactly mean by this term. Charles W. Hendel, in the 1963 edition of his 1924 Studies in the Ph…Read more
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44Analogies as generalizationsPhilosophy of Science 31 (4): 351-356. 1964.Analogies have been traditionally recognized as a proper part of inductive procedures, akin to generalizations. Seldom, however, have they been presented as superior to generalizations, in the attainability of a higher degree of certitude for their conclusions or in other respects. Though Bacon definitely preferred analogy to generalization, the tradition seems to me to go the other way—until the recent publication of works by Mary B. Hesse and, perhaps, R. Harré.
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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