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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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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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188Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Popper's Popular CriticsAnnuario Filosofico 7 5-25. 1999.Two suggestions are at the back of the present talk. First, toleration is obligatory, not criticism. So do not try to make people critically-minded: do not force them in any way to try to offer or accept criticism, to learn to participate effectively in the game of critical discussion. If they refuse, then they are within their right. Also, they will easily ad vance excuses for their refusal; admittedly some of these are unreasonable, but not all. Instead of trying to make people critically-mind…Read more
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42Popper and the establishmentCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 17 (1-2): 13-23. 2005.The central thesis of Karl Popper's philosophy is that intellectual and political progress are best achieved by not deferring to dogmatic authority. His philosophy of science is a plea for the replacement of classic dogmatic methodology with critical debate. His philosophy of politics, similarly, is a plea for replacing Utopian social and political engineering with a more fallibilist, piecemeal variety. Many confuse his anti‐dogmatism with relativism, and his anti‐authoritarianism with Cold War …Read more
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Whatever Happened to the Positivist Theory of MeaningZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1-2): 22-29. 1987.
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8Tristram Shandy, Pierre Menard, and all that (review)Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 14 (n/a): 152. 1971.
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85We Socratic Philosophers Know that We Know NothingPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 42 (1): 146-151. 2012.This volume is as near an authoritative version of analytic philosophy as can be found in the market these days
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39Wissenschaft 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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90Whatever happened to the positivist theory of meaningJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1-2): 22-29. 1987.It is getting increasingly difficult to comprehend the history of ideas of the Vienna Circle and only a clear and critical exposition of it will save it from total oblivion; an apologetic presentation will not be understood. Now that the positivist theory of meaning is no longer accepted, only an honest presentation of this fact will enable us to comprehend it and its transformations. An analysis of a paper by Otto Neurath illustrates this: Neurath's inability to present fairly his critics' idea…Read more
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13We Socratic Philosophers Know that We Know NothingGuttingGaryWhat Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic PhilosophyNew York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 264 pp. $30.99 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 42 (1): 146-151. 2012.This volume is as near an authoritative version of analytic philosophy as can be found in the market these days.
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46Who Discovered Boyle's Law?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 8 (3): 189. 1977.
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6Wayne A. Patterson, Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (1): 44-45. 1994.
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216Williams dodges Agassi's criticismBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (3): 248-252. 1978.
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51What collapse, exactly?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (1): 74-84. 2007.Hilary Putnam makes two related points in his recent collection of essays: (1) Values can be rational, and their inescapable intrusion into every kind of discourse is welcome. (2) Ignoring or suppressing this fact is common yet irrational. This is of course true; yet the intrusion in question can be trivial, and it can be problematic. Putnam ignores this here. The book is pleasant to read; it is infused with friendly and appreciative personal anecdotes and observations. It is almost entirely cri…Read more
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3Book 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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1Wayne A. Patterson, Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism (review)Philosophy in Review 14 44-45. 1994.
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