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28Meaning: from Parmenides to Wittgenstein: Philosophy as “Footnotes to Parmenides”Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 41 (99-100). 2014.
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131. The Real Claim of the Chicago School If anything dramatic has happened in economic theory over the last one hundred years – namely, since the advent of marginalism – then, everyone agrees, it was not the rise of the Chicago neo -classical school which, after all, only synthesized the various versions of marginalism, but the Keynesian Revolution. Assessments of this revolution were repeatedly invited, particularly by opponent, chiefly from Chicago. F. A. von Hayek has explicitly and bitterly b…Read more
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22This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. The author writes from the viewpoint of critical rationalism. The tone of his analysis is friendly and appreciative yet critical. Of these papers, seven are on the background to the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Five papers examine different aspects of it: one on the philosophy of young Wittgenstein, one on his transitional period, and the final three on the philosophy of mature Wittg…Read more
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16Magic as PsychotherapyPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (6): 528-533. 2019.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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29Methodological individualism and institutional individualismIn Joseph Agassi & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Rationality: the critical view, Distributors For the U.s. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 119--150. 1987.
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98Liberal forensic medicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 3 (3): 226-241. 1978.The liberal approach to ethics quite naturally tends toward the classic individualistic theory of society, to reductionism or psychologism so-called, that is, to a reduction of all social action to individual action. For example, liberalism allows one to experiment with new medications on one's own body. By extension, liberalism allows one to experiment, it seems, on another person's body with new medication if one acts as the other person's agent, that is, if one has the other person's proper c…Read more
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7Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science by Ernest Nagel; Patrick Suppes; Alfred Tarski (review)Isis 54 405-407. 1963.
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38Knowledge personal or socialPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 28 (4): 522-551. 1998.Karl Popper's methodology can be seen as the situational logic of research. Popper called his method "Epistemology without a Knowing Subject." It was dismissed as metaphysical by those who refuse to give up an ideal knowing subject (a perfect human inductive processor). This article surveys the failure of modem discussions of this ideal, from the earliest (the writings of Sir Francis Bacon) to the latest (Kripke). The knowing subject exits at last, but leaves behind interesting results. The idea…Read more
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Kurt Salamun, ed., Karl Popper und die Philosophie des Kritischen Rationalismus. Zum 85. Geburstag von Karl R. Popper. Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie, Band 14 (review)Philosophy in Review 9 (9): 378-381. 1989.
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100In Wittgenstein’s ShadowPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (2): 325-339. 2010.Marc Lange offers a stale anthology that reflects the sad state of affairs in the camp of analytic philosophy. It is representative in a few respects, even in its maltreatment of Russell, Wittgenstein, and Popper. Despite its neglect of Wittgenstein, it shows again that Wittgenstein is the patron saint of the analytic school despite the fact that it does not abide by his theory of metaphysics as inherently meaningless
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58Karl R. Popper is “the outstanding philosopher of the twentieth century” (Bryan Magee), even “the greatest thinker of the [twentieth] century” (Gellner). He felt affinity with thinkers of the Age of Reason and developed a new version of rationalism: critical rationalism. As a champion of science and of democracy he was the most influential philosopher of the post-WWII era. He was a close follower of Bertrand Russell and of Albert Einstein in that all three advocated problem-oriented fallibilism …Read more
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44On September 17, 1994, Karl Popper died at the age of 92.He was described as the official opposition of the “ Vienna Circle”, the philosophical club which in the inter-war period was glamorous and which espoused the then popular doctrine of logical positivism, so-called. His relations with that club were friendly-hostile, to use the term with which he liked to characterize the relations between scientific researchers. He is the last of that generation (unless it is Carl G. Hempel, who, however, …Read more
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16I. the place of Sparks in the world of blahInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 24 (4). 1981.
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47Introducing Philosophy of Social SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (4): 536-550. 2014.This book succeeds in being nice all round. Its means are slight distortions of issues in dispute. A preferable approach would be to inform readers of the sharp rifts in the field and their ramifications and then to challenge beginners to think about how to deal with the situation
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19Irrationalism TodayDialectica 36 (2‐3): 127-146. 1982.SummaryAccording to classical rationalism prejudiced people cannot conduct proper research. This is refuted by cases of prejudiced and even Nazi scientists. According to classical rationalism all error is prejudice. This was refuted when crucial experiment between Newton and Einstein favored Einstein. Contemporary popular irrationalists claim crucial experiments are impossible. Their ability to convince rests on the cowardice of the leadership of science which fails to admit openly the present n…Read more
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18Introducing Philosophy of Social ScienceRosenbergAlexanderPhilosophy of Social Science, fourth edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 310. $40 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (4): 536-550. 2014.This book succeeds in being nice all round. Its means are slight distortions of issues in dispute. A preferable approach would be to inform readers of the sharp rifts in the field and their ramifications and then to challenge beginners to think about how to deal with the situation.
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1In search of rationality—A personal reportIn Karl R. Popper & Paul Levinson (eds.), In pursuit of truth: essays on the philosophy of Karl Popper on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Harvester Press. pp. 237--48. 1982.
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32Discussion: Analogies as GeneralizationsPhilosophy of Science 31 (4): 351-356Analogies have been traditionally recognized as a proper part of inductive procedures, akin to generalizations. Seldom, however, have they been presented as superior to generalizations, in the attainability of a higher degree of certitude for their conclusions or in other respects. Though Bacon definitely preferred analogy to generalization1, the tradition seems to me to go the other way-until the recent publication of works by Mary B. Hesse ([2], pp.21-28 and passim) and, perhaps, R. Harr6 ([1]…Read more
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |