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28Book reviews : Popper and after: Four modern irrationalists. By David stove. New York: Pergamon press, 1981. Pp. VIII + 116. $9.50 paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3): 368-369. 1985.
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27Review: Duhem versus Galileo (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 8 (31). 1957.
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27is an unusual phenomenon. The concern with rights different citizens have in different societies is legal rather than philosophical. It is frequently somewhat a technical matter for jurisprudence to decide exactly what rights a citizen has in a given situation and how he might best exercise his rights. Often, to be sure, the legal technicalities involve matters of principle, and if so these should be made explicit. For this, too, there is a need less for philosophy and more for jurisprudence, fo…Read more
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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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26Tristram Shandy, Pierre Menard, and all that (review)Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 14 (n/a): 152. 1971.
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26The Future of Big ScienceJournal of Applied Philosophy 5 (1): 17-26. 1988.ABSTRACT The period of government‐sponsored research and development, involving military and industrial intervention in academic life, especially in the USA, was brief and yet its characteristics were declared universal by two historians of science there, Derek J. de Solla Price and Thomas S. Kuhn, who justified coercion and boredom in research work organized hierarchically. The reform of work movement is now attempting to introduce ideas in the opposite direction. Clearly, the institutions of b…Read more
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26Even of that, I cannot elaborate. He joined the Irgun National Military Organization as a youth, joined its headquarters as a teenager, and went abroad on a mission at the age of 22, from which he returned a decade later, after his chief political activity was over. I cannot describe all that now. I will sum it up briefly. His life work had two great achievements and two heartbreaking failures. The struggle to rescue the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust and the Declaration of Israel’s Indepen…Read more
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26Book Reviews : John H. Fielder and Douglas Birch, eds., The DC-10 Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Technology and Society. SUNY Press, Albany, 1992. Pp. 346. $12.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (3): 390-392. 1994.
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26Meaning: from Parmenides to Wittgenstein: Philosophy as “Footnotes to Parmenides”Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 41 (99-100). 2014.
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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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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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25Book Reviews : John H. Fielder and Douglas Birch, eds., The DC-10 Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Technology and Society. SUNY Press, Albany, 1992. Pp. 346. $12.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (3): 390-392. 1994.
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25II. Nationalism and the philosophy of ZionismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 27 (1-4): 311-326. 1984.
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25An inductivist version of critical rationalismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (4): 458-465. 1994.
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25The Manhattan Project and Its Long ShadowPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (4): 574-595. 2011.A sequel to Shapin’s earlier work, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation again solves the problem of induction by observing that researchers are decent. Shapin dismisses most of the literature on both the philosophy of science and (more so) on the sociology of science as ideologically biased and as irrelevant. Approaches to the book as light reading and as serious scholarly reading are considered before a critical summary is offered as a conclusion
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25Symposium on the role of the philosopher among the scientists: Nuisance or necessity? A reply to BaigrieSocial Epistemology 3 (4): 319. 1989.
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24On Hugo Bergman's Contribution to EpistemologyGrazer Philosophische Studien 24 (1): 47-58. 1985.Approximationism — science approximates the truth as an ideal — is the view of science implicit in all of Einstein's major works, heralded by Hugo Bergman in Hebrew in 1940 and expressed by Karl Popper in 1954 and 1956. Yet Bergman was not sufficiently clear about it, and even Popper is not - as shown by their not giving up certain remnants of the older views which approximationism replaces, even when these remnants are inconsistent with approximationism. Norare the approximationist theories of …Read more
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24Science as commoditiesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (1): 154-171. 2010.The paucity of literature on the economics of science renders this book valuable. Also, it includes a few interesting papers. Education and research may become more efficient, and their economic aspects want explanations. The explanations may offer suggestion for improvements. The discussions here are mostly unserious and the serious ones are not far-reaching.They concern patent laws more than seems reasonable and ignore many economic aspects of science, mainly its poor communication systems, in…Read more
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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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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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24Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of ScienceJournal of the History of Ideas 34 (4): 609. 1973.
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24Review essays : Phenomenology of technologyPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (4): 528-536. 1993.
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23Book Reviews : Francis Bacon and Modernity. By Charles Whitney. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. x + 226. $18.50 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (2): 219-223. 1989.
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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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23Book 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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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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D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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