Joseph Agassi

York University
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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    Between micro and macro
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 14 (53): 26-31. 1963.
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    A Touch of Malice
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32 (1): 107-119. 2002.
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    The word "brain-washing", translated from Chinese communist jargon, is a very strong metaphor, first popularized by Robert Jay Lifto n. It vividly describes one person interfering with the personality make-up of another, removing the other's ideology and replacing it, and similarly tampering with the other's tastes, pool of information to rely upon and whatever else goes into the make-up of the other's personality. Clearly, in some sense or another everyone interferes with the personality of peo…Read more
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    Amperé's Discovery
    History and Theory 2 20-23. 1963.
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    Assurance and Agnosticism
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974 449-457. 1974.
  • Arte e Scienza
    Scientia 73 (14): 141. 1979.
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    ספר ויקרא, או תורת כוהנים, נראה היום פחות מעניין מאשר ספרי-קודש אחרים, כי הוא ספר מצוות - הוא כולל כארבעים אחוז מכל תרי"ג המצוות - ואף במידה רבה מצוות שאינן בתוקף מאז חורבן בית-המקדש. אך יש בו עניין, שכן הוא מוכר כספר השלם ביותר מבחינת סגנונו ותכנו, ואולי אף בכך שעריכתו כנראה עתיקה ביותר - לא לדעת דון יצחק אברבנאל, שכן הוא לא הטיל בספק כי תורה נתנה למשה מפי הגבורה - אמנם לא בסיני אך בכל-זאת למשה מפי הגבורה. החוקרים המתעלמים מדעה זו..
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    Auguste Comte and His Legacy
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (4): 323-327. 2019.
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    Abstracts
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (39): 259-262. 1959.
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    A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics (edited book)
    with Ian Charles Jarvie
    Rodopi. 2008.
    This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge that there is an aesthetic aspect to anything whatsoever. They pay close attention to the social situatedness of the arts. Their aesthetics treats art as emerging from…Read more
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    ANTHROPOMORPHISM is an inveterate tendency to project human qualities into natural phenomena—consciously or not. The standard and most important variant of anthropomorphism is animism which sees a soul in everything in nature. Before entering into the role of anthropomorphism in the history of science, let us consider a few important and usually neglected logical aspects of the idea.
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    Announcements
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 ([37/40]): 165. 1959.