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2The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of ScienceInternational Studies in Philosophy 34 (4): 168-170. 2002.
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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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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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41To Dismiss "The Received View"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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Towards a Rational Philosophical AnthropologyJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 16 (1): 167-176. 1985.
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'Towards an Historiography of Science', History and Theory, Studies in the Philosophy of HistoryBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 17 (3): 256-258. 1966.
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35Why are the efforts at coordination so feeble? Unless we face this question, we may never see progress. The answer is not hard to find. Decisions on matters of life and death are awesome; decisions on some awesome questions are guided by accepted laws, rules or customs; other awesome questions are open. Obviously, having to decide on an open, awesome question is a hardship in every possible manner: intellectually and practically, legally and morally, socially and psychologically. People are relu…Read more
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35The biology of the interest in moneyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (2): 176-176. 2006.Why are people interested in money? This question is too broad: there are many kinds of money, interest, and people. The biological approach of Lea & Webley (L&W) makes them seek the roots of this interest, and they contend that tool making and addiction qualify as the roots. Curiosity and the quest for power, however, qualify too. As L&W rightly admit, other approaches supplement their biological one. (Published Online April 5 2006).
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4Science and CultureSpringer Verlag. 2013.This work addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. It helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. It provides examples of the value of science to culture, discussions of items of the general culture, practical strategies and tools, and case studies. It is for practising professionals, political scientists and science po…Read more
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30New York University Professor Jerome S. Bruner, an eminent and influential educationist, is the author of numerous papers published in professional journals as well as of several highly successful books. Bruner's slim book titled The Process of Education is a most significant work. At the time of its publication (1960), Bruner was a professor of psychology at Harvard University, where he ran the Center for Cognitive Studies. It is an acclaimed classic and was translated into several languages wi…Read more
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6Towards a Canonic Version of Classical Political TheoryIn Marjorie G. Grene & Debra Nails (eds.), Spinoza and the Sciences, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 153--170. 1986.
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Towards a Rational Philosophical AnthropologyRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 35 (4): 442-443. 1979.
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54The advantage of theft over honest toilPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (3): 507-526. 2009.Gregory Landini offers a new and an illuminating reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s idea about his own innovation: it is the invention of a notation that removes the mystery from all theorems of logic and of mathematics as it renders their proofs part of their wordings. This makes all theorems in principle as boring as “all four-legged animals are animals.” This idea is Wittgenstein’s doctrine of showing. It is worthless; yet, as Landini shows, every time Wittgenstein offered an elaboration on it,…Read more
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53Tautology and testability in economicsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 1 (1): 49-63. 1971.Economics is a science - at least positive economics must be. And science is in part applied mathematics, in part empirical observations and tests. Looking at the history of economics, one cannot find much testing done before the twentieth century, and even the collection of data, even in the manner Marx engaged in, was not common in his day. It is true that economic policy is an older field, and in that field much information is deployed for the purpose of prescribing a course of action. But th…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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57Theoretical Bias in Evidence: A Historical SketchPhilosophica 31 (1): 7-24. 1983.The studies of theoretical bias in evidence are these days developed by many clever psychologists, social psychologists, and philosophers. It therefore comes as a surprise to realize that most of the material one can find in the up-to -date literature repeats discoveries which are due to the heroes of the present sketch, namely Galileo Galilei, Sir Francis Bacon, and Robert Boyle; William Whewell, Pierre Duhem, and Karl Popper. We may try to raise scholarly standards by familiarizing ourselves w…Read more
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75Towards an Historiography of Science (review)Philosophical Review 74 (1): 115-117. 1965.Bacon's inductivist philosophy of science divides thinkers into the scientific and the prejudiced, using as a standard the up-to-date science textbook. Inductivists regard the history of science as progressing smoothly, from facts rather than from problems, to increasingly general theories, undisturbed by contending scientific schools. Conventionalists regard theories as pigeonholes for classifying facts; history of science is the development of increasingly simple theories, neither true nor fal…Read more
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14TranslationJournal of Chinese Philosophy 45 (1-2): 9-17. 2018.The radical untranslatability thesis has a traditional, famous version and a modern, specific one, relating to precise, lean versions of the concept of translation, including machine translation. This version is not obvious and signifies for the study of translation and even for linguistics in general.
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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