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125“Intrinsically” or just “Instrumentally” Valuable? On Structural Types of Values of Scientific KnowledgeJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 32 (2): 237-256. 2001.Debates about scientific (though rarely about otherforms of) knowledge, research policies or academic trainingoften involve a controversy about whether scientificknowledge possesses just “instrumental” value or also “intrinsic” value. Questioning this common simpleopposition, I scrutinize the issues involved in terms of agreater variety of structural types of values attributableto (scientific) knowledge. (Intermittently, I address thepuzzling habit of attributing “intrinsic” value to quitediffer…Read more
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91Tautologie, methodologische waarschuwing of noodverklaring ? Een kritische bespreking Van enkele antropische principesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 56 (3). 1994.The Anthropic Principle (AP), in its many versions, has received diverging assessments. I mainly examine the less speculative weak (WAP) and strong (SAP) versions and their assessments. I argue, among others, the following points. The construal of the WAP asa consistency requirement or a truth of (Bayesian) confirmation theory, while correct, does not quite capture its spirit. The charge of its being a tautology, which occasionscomparisons with the Principle of Natural Selection (PNS), is overst…Read more
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65Does the anthropic principle live up to scientific standards?Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 8 (2): 21-48. 1992.
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49Local and normative rationality of science: The 'content of discovery' rehabilitated (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 22 (1): 61-72. 1991.Summary The recent turn to the âcontext of discoveryâ and other âpostmodernistâ developments in the philosophy of science have undermined the idea of a universal rationality of science. This parallels the fate of the classical dream of a logic of discovery. Still, justificational questions have remained as a distinct perspective, though comprising both consequential and generative justification â an insight delayed by certain confusions about the (original) context distinction. An exam…Read more
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45Neopositivism, marxism, and idealization: Some comments on professor Nowak's paperStudies in East European Thought 30 (3): 219-235. 1985.The paper is a discussion of the idealizational interpretation of the dialectical Marxist methodology of science which has been worked out and applied in a diversity of ways by L. Nowak and the other members of the so-called Pozna school. I examine the sense in which, and the extent to which, this methodology is or can be said to be dialectical. Subsequently, I discuss and criticize Nowak's claim that this methodology can function at the same time as a meta-methodology; I do this in connection w…Read more
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43Reciprocity in the uncertainty relationsPhilosophy of Science 40 (1): 52-58. 1973.A philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics presupposes a clear understanding of what is asserted by this theory. The aim of this paper is to help clarify one specific theorem of quantum mechanics, namely the so-called uncertainty relations. The surprisingly wide spread belief that these relations generally imply a reciprocal or inversely proportional relationship between the respective uncertainties is shown to be mistaken. Several reasons why this mistaken belief has been embraced are …Read more
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42Concepts of randomnessJournal of Philosophical Logic 1 (3/4). 1972.I. INTRODUCTION The notion of randomness has always been rather perplexing. Altho it is frequently used in natural and social science, both technically a informally, it seems to have been somewhat neglected by philosophers o science ever since the discussion of the foundations of the so-called fre- quency theory of probability, in which it was assigned a basic role, faded. Yet this discussion is of such significance that any attempt clarifying the notion of randomness will have to relate to it. …Read more
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38Neuere probleme einer sozialistischen moraltheorie, IIStudies in East European Thought 9 (3): 184-209. 1969.
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37Science and Multiculturalism: Some Questions Still RemainAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 10 (3): 91-108. 2001.
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37On the kinship of cybernetics to dialectical materialismStudies in East European Thought 6 (1): 37-41. 1966.
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36Problems of information in dialectical materialismStudies in East European Thought 8 (2-3): 105-121. 1968.
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35Moral and Other Responsibilities of Science and TechnologySocial Philosophy Today 6 89-109. 1991.
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35A Scientific Ontology (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1): 183-197. 1981.Mario BUNGE: Ontology I. The Furniture of the World, Dordrecht: Reidel 1977 (Treatise on Basic Philosophy, Vol. 3); Ontology II. A World of Systems, Dordrecht: Reidel 1979.
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30Symmetries and reflections: Scientific essaysStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 4 (2): 193-207. 1973.
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29Science and its metaphysical interpretationsStudies in East European Thought 11 (3): 186-195. 1971.
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28Methodological Foundations of Relativistic Mechanics. Marshall Spector (review)Philosophy of Science 40 (3): 459-461. 1973.
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28Neuere probleme einer sozialistischen moraltheorie, IStudies in East European Thought 9 (2): 112-142. 1969.
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18The Problem of the Reference ClassAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 4 (5): 289-299. 1975.
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16Neopositivism, Marxism, and idealization: Some comments on Professor Nowak's paperStudies in Soviet Thought 30 (3): 219-235. 1985.The paper is a discussion of the idealizational interpretation of the dialectical Marxist methodology of science which has been worked out and applied in a diversity of ways by L. Nowak and the other members of the so-called Poznań school. I examine the sense in which, and the extent to which, this methodology is or can be said to be dialectical. Subsequently, I discuss and criticize Nowak's claim that this methodology can function at the same time as a meta-methodology; I do this in connection …Read more