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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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25The 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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37Global 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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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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32The 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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32Book 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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11A 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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6The 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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22Book 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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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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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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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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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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20Book Reviews : Understanding Cultures, Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. By ROBERT C. ULIN. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. Pp. xvii + 200. U.S. $19.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 17 (2): 278-283. 1987.
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6Physics and Philosophy: Volume 4: Philosophical Papers (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.This collection of the writings of Paul Feyerabend is focused on his philosophy of quantum physics, the hotbed of the key issues of his most debated ideas. Written between 1948 and 1970, these writings come from his first and most productive period. These early works are important for two main reasons. First, they document Feyerabend's deep concern with the philosophical implications of quantum physics and its interpretations. These ideas were paid less attention in the following two decades. Se…Read more
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15Book 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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38Book 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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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.
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4The 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
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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D'Annunzio University of Chieti–PescaraOther
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |