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17Kant, the Nation-State, and ImmigrationKantian Review 1-17. forthcoming.Kant is invariably read by his followers as antipathetic to all forms of nationalism. Yet he was interested in differences of national character and used an organic metaphor to explain why states should not be broken up or annexed (unfortunately he never commented explicitly on the dismemberment of Poland by Prussia and its allies). He favoured a plural world in which national differences of language and religion prevented the emergence of despotic world government. So his acknowledgement of a l…Read more
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23What Use Is Empirical Confirmation?Economics and Philosophy 12 (2): 197. 1996.1. Despite the plain fact that there is nothing in this world that can be proved without reliance on some assumption or another, there is an inalienable difference between an argument that begins by assuming what it is designed to establish and one that begins by assuming the contradictory of what it is designed to establish. Arguments of the first kind are uncontroversially acknowledged to be circular, or question-begging; though valid they achieve nothing. Those of the second kind conform to t…Read more
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30The burden of this theorem, stated informally, is that when a hypothesis h is maximally independent of the evidence — that is, it goes wholly beyond the evidence —, then the probability p(h, e) increases when the evidence e is weakened; and hence, the weaker is the evidence, the greater is the probabilistic support.
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23Taking up the Slack? Responsibility and justice in situations of partial complianceIn Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and Distributive Justice, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 230--45. 2011.
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11I am indebted to Zwirn and Zwirn [1989] for their extended and careful comments on the arguments of Popper & Miller [1983], [1987], and also for friendly and illuminating conversations. Their judgement seems to be that although Popper and I fail to make a satisfactory case for our conclusion that inductive probability is impossible, that conclusion is nonetheless defensible on quite other grounds. I don’t really agree with this, as I shall explain
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56Republicanism, national identity and EuropeIn Cécile Laborde & John W. Maynor (eds.), Republicanism and Political Theory, Blackwell. pp. 145. 2008.
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11Political philosophy for EarthlingsIn David Leopold & Marc Stears (eds.), Political theory: methods and approaches, Oxford University Press. pp. 29--48. 2008.
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Popper and TarskiIn Ian Charles Jarvie & Sandra Pralong (eds.), Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Karl Popper, Routledge. 1999.
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51Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical RationalismIn Zuzana Parusniková & R. S. Cohen (eds.), Rethinking Popper, Springer. pp. 417--423. 2009.
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On distance from the truth as a true distanceIn J. Hintikka, I. Niiniluoto & E. Saarinen (eds.), Essays on Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, Springer. pp. 415--435. 1979.
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2Multiculturalism and the welfare state: Theoretical reflectionsIn Keith Banting & Will Kymlicka (eds.), Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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388 Justice, democracy and public goodsIn Keith M. Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, Carole Pateman & Brian Barry (eds.), Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry, Cambridge University Press. pp. 127. 2004.
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172Is There a Human Right to Immigrate?In Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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40If the open society is a society that ‘sets free the critical powers of man’ (Popper, 1945, Introduction), then the subject of critical thinking, now widely taught in universities in North America and at the level of further education in the UK, might seem to be a welcome innovation. Caution is advised. By mistakenly supposing that thinking intelligently is identical with thinking logically, critical thinking textbooks almost invariably regard the purpose of argument to be a combination of justi…Read more
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47The non-justificationist deductivism (or critical rationalism) of Karl Popper constitutes the only approach to human knowledge, including of course the natural and social sciences, that is capable of overcoming all the failings, and the plain contradictions, of the traditional doctrine of inductivism and of its modern incarnation, Bayesianism.
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3Conjectural knowledge: Popper's solution of the problem of inductionIn 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. 17--49. 1982.
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7Complex equalityIn David Miller & Michael Walzer (eds.), Pluralism, Justice, and Equality, Oxford University Press. pp. 197--225. 1995.
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32Comparative and non-comparative desertIn Serena Olsaretti (ed.), Desert and Justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 25--44. 2003.Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values.
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4CosmopolitanismIn Garrett Wallace Brown & David Held (eds.), The Cosmopolitanism Reader, Polity. pp. 377--392. 2010.
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48Beauty, a road to the truth?Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 83 (1): 341-355. 2005.Calling into service the theory of truth approximation of his (1997) and (2000), Kuipers defends the view that "beauty can be a road to the truth" and endorses the general conclusions of McAllister (1996) that aesthetic criteria reasonably play a role in theory selection in science. My comments pertain first to the general adequacy of Kuipers's theory of truth approximation; secondly to its methodological aspects; thirdly to the aetiolated role that aesthetic factors turn out to play in his acco…Read more
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275A Refined Geometry of LogicPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 13 (3): 339-356. 2009.In order to measure the degree of dissimilarity between elements of a Boolean algebra, the author’s proposed to use pseudometrics satisfying generalizations of the usual axioms for identity. The proposal is extended, as far as is feasible, from Boolean algebras to Brouwerian algebras. The relation between Boolean and Brouwerian geometries of logic turns out to resemble in a curious way the relation between Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries of physical space. The paper ends with a brief cons…Read more
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1Altruism and the welfare stateIn J. Donald Moon (ed.), Responsibility, Rights, and Welfare: The Theory of the Welfare State, Westview Press. 1988.
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