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4ErrataBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 ([37/40]): 171. 1959.La correction des épreuves du numéro 2010 - 1 ayant été perturbée par un événement indépendant de notre volonté ainsi que par des défaillances des services postaux, le texte publié comporte un certain nombre d’erreurs. On trouvera ci-dessous la liste des plus importantes, pour lesquelles..
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113Epistemology as an aid to science: Comments on dr Buchdahl's paperBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (38): 135-146. 1959.
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23Experts within Democracy: The Turner VersionPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (3): 370-384. 2015.Stephen Turner defends the sociopolitical role that experts—mainly but not only of the scientific kind—play in modern democratic society and explores means for increasing the rationality of their employment. Laudable though this is, at times Turner goes into more detail than democratic principles require; in his enthusiasm for rationality, he aims at levels of adequacy that are not always within the grasp of democracy.
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46Abstract and Introduction. This essay is an attempt to dispense with the negative aspects of Romanticism and examine whatever positive it has to offer--in the light of ideas scattered through diverse writings of Ernest Gellner
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124Current Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (2): 278-294. 2011.This Companion to the philosophy of science reflects fairly well the gloomy state of affairs in this subfield at its best—concerns, problems, prejudices, and all. The field is still stuck with the problem of justification of science, refusing to admit that there is neither need nor possibility to justify science and forbid dissent from it
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23Self- Deception in General "A Liberal Decalogue" suggests (Russell, 1967, pp. 60-61) not to envy people who live in a fool's paradise: It is a place only for fools. This saying invites detailed commentary. A fool's paradise is not a place, but a state o f mind; it is a system of opinions, of assessments of situations, that calms one down, that reassures one into the opinion that all is well, even when all is far from well. Fools may be ignorant of the severity of their situations, perhaps becaus…Read more
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10DiscussionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 39 (1). 1961.This Article does not have an abstract
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11Corroboration Spurious and GenuinePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 93 (1): 81. 2007.
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2Charles Taylor, Philosophical Papers. Vol. 1: Human Agency and Language. Vol. II: Philosophy and the Human Sciences Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 6 (1): 35-38. 1986.
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12Callipolis RevisitedLongChristopher P.Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvi +198 pp. $90. ISBN 9781107040359 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 47 (2): 162-174. 2017.
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22Summary and conclusions As a new field, cognitivism began with the total rejection of the old, traditional views of language acquisition and of learning -- individual and collective alike. Chomsky was one of the pioneers in this respect, yet he clouds issues by excessive claim s for his originality and by not allowing the beginner in the art of the acquisition of language the use of learning by making hypotheses and testing them, though he acknowledges that researchers, himself included, do use …Read more
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45Back to the drawing boardPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (4): 509-518. 2005.Within ontology new theories are extremely rare. Hacking bravely claims to have one: "historical ontology" or "dynamic nominalism." Regrettably, he uses "nominalism" idiosyncratically, without explaining it or its qualifier. He does say what historical ontology is: it is "the presentation of the history of ontology in context." This idea is laudable, as it invites presenting idealism as once attractive but no longer so (due to changes in perception theory, for example). But this idea is a propos…Read more
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6BERARD, TJ,“Rethinking Practices and Structures,” 196. BUNGE, MARIO,“Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars by James Robert Brown”[Book Review], 250. COLLINS, RICHARD,“Broadcasting and Convergence. New Articulations of the (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (4): 523-525. 2005.
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1Joseph Agassi One Palestine, Two Nations Many are the problems that beset the tragically war-torn and forlorn Palestine. The extant proposed solutions to them all are few. They all relate to the framework of the establishment or the re-establishment of one, two, or three states. Let me list them first regardless of their value
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73The variety of languages in the world is considered a curse by some, who view the phenomenon as a Tower of Babel. Others consider it the most characteristic quality of human language as opposed to animal languages, which are supposedly species specific. The variety is viewed as a symptom of human caprice, arbitrariness, or dependence on mere historical accident by some; and as a symptom of human freedom and of the creative aspect of language by others. And, of course, the human limitation caused…Read more
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12Book Review: The Quest for Self-Determination (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (1): 126-128. 1983.
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Cognitive Development and Epistemology" by Theodore Mischel (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2 (4): 367. 1972.
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24Between the Under-Labourer and the Master-Builder: Observations on Bunge’s MethodScience & Education 21 (10): 1405-1418. 2012.
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20Book Review: Tacit and Explicit KnowledgeCollinsHarryTacit and Explicit Knowledge. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010. xi + 182 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-11308-7 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (2): 275-279. 2013.
Joseph Agassi
York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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