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113Epistemology as an aid to science: Comments on dr Buchdahl's paperBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (38): 135-146. 1959.
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23Experts within Democracy: The Turner VersionPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (3): 370-384. 2015.Stephen Turner defends the sociopolitical role that experts—mainly but not only of the scientific kind—play in modern democratic society and explores means for increasing the rationality of their employment. Laudable though this is, at times Turner goes into more detail than democratic principles require; in his enthusiasm for rationality, he aims at levels of adequacy that are not always within the grasp of democracy.
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46Abstract and Introduction. This essay is an attempt to dispense with the negative aspects of Romanticism and examine whatever positive it has to offer--in the light of ideas scattered through diverse writings of Ernest Gellner
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15Einstein’s Philosophy Politely ShelvedPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (4-5): 515-527. 2015.Einstein considered fallibilist methodology obvious and metaphysics the challenging heuristic of physics. This philosophy is a minority view in academic philosophy. Most commentators on Einstein reject it and either refuse to ascribe it to him or declare it an impediment to his researches, his own opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.
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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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124Current Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (2): 278-294. 2011.This Companion to the philosophy of science reflects fairly well the gloomy state of affairs in this subfield at its best—concerns, problems, prejudices, and all. The field is still stuck with the problem of justification of science, refusing to admit that there is neither need nor possibility to justify science and forbid dissent from it
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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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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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157Book 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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9Review 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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