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25Between 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.
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24Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of ScienceJournal of the History of Ideas 34 (4): 609. 1973.
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13Book Review: The Unique in Popper’s Contribution to Philosophy by Alexander Naraniecki (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (6): 624-634. 2015.
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2Back 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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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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4Book 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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38Book 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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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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13Blame 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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BackgroundIn Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Attempt at a Critical Rationalist Appraisal, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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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
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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