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13Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science: Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964 (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2017.To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his passing, this special book features studies on Alexandre Koyré, one of the most influential historians of science of the 20th century, who re-evaluated prevalent thinking on the history and philosophy of science. In particular, it explores Koyré’s intellectual matrix and heritage within interdisciplinary fields of historical, epistemological and philosophical scientific thought. Koyré is rightly noted as both a versatile historian on the birth and devel…Read more
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13I. the place of Sparks in the world of blahInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 24 (4). 1981.
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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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13Psychiatry as Medicine: Contemporary PsychotherapiesSpringer. 1983.PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussion of this volume dealing with nosology - there is very little on diagnosis here - is ancillary to our discussion of psychotherapy. It is still our…Read more
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13Nicholas Maxwell, Is Science Neurotic? London: Imperial College Press , 228 pp., $60.00 (review)Philosophy of Science 75 (4): 477-479. 2008.
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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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12On 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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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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12The choice of problems and the limits of reasonIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: The Critical View, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 281--296. 1987.
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11Wissenschaft und MetaphysikGrazer Philosophische Studien 9 (1): 97-106. 1979.The erroneous hostility to metaphysics is justified by the clashes between science and metaphysics plus the inability to allow clashes within science. The defenders of metaphysics as world-views offering intellectual frameworks for science have overlooked this fact. Einstein and Popper have legitimized the inclusion of clashes well within the domain of science. This resolves the difficulty of the allegiance to both. Science offers testable explanations and metaphysics comprehension; both are ins…Read more
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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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11Treading Water to Stay in the Same PlaceSage Publications Inc: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 51 (6): 600-603. 2021.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 51, Issue 6, Page 600-603, December 2021.
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11A Study in WesternizationIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: The Critical View, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 395--421. 1987.
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11Rationality: the critical view (edited book)Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1987.In our papers on the rationality of magic, we distinghuished, for purposes of analysis, three levels of rationality. First and lowest (rationalitYl) the goal directed action of an agent with given aims and circumstances, where among his circumstances we included his knowledge and opinions. On this level the magician's treatment of illness by incantation is as rational as any traditional doctor's blood-letting or any modern one's use of anti-biotics. At the second level (rationalitY2) we add the …Read more
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11Review symposium : I—listening in the LullPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 2 (1): 319-332. 1972.
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10Better a Bang than a WhimperMillerSeumasThe Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-76794-1 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (3): 390-396. 2013.
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10To Dismiss “The Received View”McGrewTimothyAlspector-KellyMarcAllhoffFritz, editors Philosophy of Science: An Historical AnthologyChichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 680 pp. ₤64.00 , ₤24.99 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 42 (3): 449-456. 2012.This volume is a historical anthology of interesting views on science from antiquity to the twentieth century plus a defensive anthology of logical positivism, whose legacy deserves better: clear-eyed assessment and then putting to rest.
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10DiscussionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 39 (1). 1961.This Article does not have an abstract
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10Comment on WetterstenPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 004839312211004. forthcoming.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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9Book Reviews : Michael Gibbon, Camille Limoges, Helga Nowotny, Simon Schwatrzman, Peter Scott, and Martin Trow, The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies. London, Sage, 1994, reprinted 1995. Pp. ix + 170. 37.50 (cloth), 12.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (3): 354-357. 1997.
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
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