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32Nicholas Maxwell, Is Science Neurotic? London: Imperial College Press (2004), 228 pp., $60.00 (cloth)Philosophy of Science 75 (4): 477-479. 2008.
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2Wittgenstein and PhysicalismGrazer Philosophische Studien 41 (1): 67-97. 1991.In the light of a sketch of the history of modem Anti-Metaphysics up from Francis Bacon Wittgenstein's position - the refusal of the possibility of metaphysical assertions - is compared with the views of Mach, of Camap and Neurath and of Popper. Analysing the notions of 'nonsense', 'meaninglessness' and 'Scheinproblem', their interrelations and connections to physicalism three variants of Anti-Metaphysics are distinguished: the Enlightenment view, the positivistMachian view and the linguistic Wi…Read more
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14III. The cheapening of science∗Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 27 (1-4): 166-172. 1984.
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3II. Nationalism and the philosophy of ZionismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 27 (1-4): 311-326. 1984.
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4The grand protester: Lacan on the scientific status of psychoanalysisPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (1): 73-100. 1988.
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1The 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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4The Politics of ScienceJournal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1): 35-48. 1986.ABSTRACT The myth that there is no politics of science is dangerous as it prevents the important and urgently needed institution of some democratic control of the existing system of politics within the commonwealth of learning. Feyerabend's attack on science makes sense only when understood in this way.
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2Global ResponsibilityJournal of Applied Philosophy 7 (2): 217-221. 1990.ABSTRACT Concern with global responsibility for survival as such invites the creation of a specific international organization. The new body should adjudicate as to which disputes are open (such as, for example, concerning the advisability of building nuclear plants) and which are not (for example, white supremacy); most significantly, the new body should carefully guard its credibility by sticking to veracity, by avoiding deceit even in extreme situations. In particular it behoves us all to con…Read more
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1The rationality of irrationalismIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 445--451. 1987.
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5Book Review: Warwick, Andrew. (2003). Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (1): 150-161. 2008.
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5Wissenschaft 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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2Book 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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6The problem of the rationality of magicIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 363--383. 1987.
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4Book Review: Stadler, F., and Fischer, K. R., editors. (2006). Paul Feyerabend: ein Philosoph aus Wien. Vienna: Springer (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (2): 303-305. 2008.
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2A Study in WesternizationIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 395--421. 1987.
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4Book Reviews : Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. BY JOHN W. YOLTON. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 238. $29.50 (cloth), $12.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16 (4): 526-528. 1986.
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5Book Reviews : Cognitive Development and Epistemology. Edited by Theodore Mischel. New York: Academic Press, I97I. Pp. xv+423. $I6.50 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2 (1): 367-368. 1972.
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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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1Book 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.
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1The Role of Historians of Science in Contemporary SocietyActa Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 2 (2): 5-19. 2014.The famous gulf between the arts and the sciences comes from the current pervasiveness of scientific illiteracy. The resultant increased fragmentation of science threatens scientific research; the resultant increase of the portion of the population of the advanced world that shows general ignorance of science threatens Western culture and democracy, and thus science itself. Historians and popularizers of science can help reduce this gulf. Introducing science historically can help solve many acut…Read more
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1Book Reviews : John W. Murphy and John T. Pardeck, eds., Technology and Human Productivity: Challenges for the Future. Quorum Books, New York, 1986. Pp. xx, 236, $37.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (4): 525-527. 1992.
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4Book 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.
Joseph Agassi
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D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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