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9Scientific Philosophy Today: Essays in Honor of Mario BungeSpringer Verlag. 2013.This volume is dedicated to Mario Bunge in honor of his sixtieth birthday. Mario Bunge is a philosopher of great repute, whose enormous output includes dozens of books in several languages, which will culminate with his Treatise on Basic Philosophy projected in seven volumes, four of which have already appeared [Reidel, I 974ff. ]. He is known for his works on research methods, the foundations of physics, biology, the social sciences, the diverse applications of mathematical methods and of syste…Read more
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37Stegmüller squaredZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 11 (1): 86-94. 1980.Wolfgang Stegmüller, the leading German philosopher of science, considers the status of scientific revolutions the central issue in the field ever since "the famous Popper-Lakatos-Kuhn discussion" of a decade and a half ago, comments on "almost all contributions to this problem", and offers his alternative solutions in a series of papers culminating with, and summarized in, his recent "A Combined Approach to Dynamics of Theories. How To Improve Historical Interpretations of Theory Change By Appl…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.
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25Symposium on the role of the philosopher among the scientists: Nuisance or necessity? A reply to BaigrieSocial Epistemology 3 (4): 319. 1989.
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Science and Society Studies in the Sociology of Science /Joseph Agassi. --. --D. Reidel Pub. Co. Sold and Distributed in the U.S.A. And Canada by Kluwer Boston Inc., C1981. 1981.
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Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of SciencePhilosophy of Science 50 (2): 345-346. 1983.
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75Sociologism in philosophy of scienceMetaphilosophy 3 (2). 1972.SummaryIn a nutshell, the present essay claims this: First, the classical problem of knowledge has recently shifted from, How do I know? to, How do we know?–from psychology to sociology. As a phenomenological matter this is a great improvement, as a solution to the problem of rationality it is erroneous and immoral. The problem, should I act, believe, etc., this or that? is answered: You should do so on the authority of your reason. But change the problem of rationality in accord with the change…Read more
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Science and Culture. A Study of Cohesive and Disjunctive Forces by Gerald Holton (review)Isis 58 116-118. 1967.
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49Science in fluxD. Reidel Pub. Co.. 1975.Joseph Agassi is a critic, a gadfly, a debunker and deflater; he is also a constructor, a speculator and an imaginative scholaro In the history and philosophy of science, he has been Peck's bad boy, delighting in sharp and pungent criticism, relishing directness and simplicity, and enjoying it all enormously. As one of that small group of Popper's students (ineluding Bartley, Feyerabend and Lakatos) who took Popper seriously enough to criticize him, Agassi remained his own man, holding Popper's …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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24Science as commoditiesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (1): 154-171. 2010.The paucity of literature on the economics of science renders this book valuable. Also, it includes a few interesting papers. Education and research may become more efficient, and their economic aspects want explanations. The explanations may offer suggestion for improvements. The discussions here are mostly unserious and the serious ones are not far-reaching.They concern patent laws more than seems reasonable and ignore many economic aspects of science, mainly its poor communication systems, in…Read more
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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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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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