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4Challenges to HumanismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 53 (6): 491-496. 2023.Joseph Agassi develops a humanist world view in his last single-authored book through confronting the challenges facing the humanist world view. The three challenges that Agassi confronts are: 1. how do we rationally choose ways of life, including the life of rationality? 2. is humanity worthwhile? 3. how can we improve liberal democracy in our fractured societies where extremists seek to gain control?
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11David R. Olson, "Making Sense: What it Means to Understand."Philosophy in Review 43 (1): 27-29. 2023.
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The Hazard Called Education by Joseph AgassiBrill. 2014.Joseph Agassi is known primarily among fellow academics as an exemplary historian and philosopher of science; an ardent critic and disciple of Karl Popper; a critical admirer of the work of Michael Polanyi; and a Socratic fly with the “sting of a bee” for all those who wear the intellectual fashions of the day. To most of Agassi’s students he is known primarily as an exemplary model of the Socratic teacher. The question of most urgency for educators today who care about the intellectual developm…Read more
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9Restoring Our Humanity: Six EssaysCambridge Scholars Publishing. 2022.This book discusses possible paths towards restoring our humanity in today’s global techno-scientific culture. It begins by considering how talking face-to-face develops and improves critical discussion, before moving on to show that observing in both physics and art involves participating with what we are observing. The book then highlights how doing in general involves developing a third-person stance in order to improve our critical self-awareness, and how making in general is intertwined wit…Read more
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20A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific CultureCambridge Sholars Publishing. 2020.Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people frustrated by smart machines? Computers don’t fit people. People think in terms of comparisons, stories, and analogies, and seek feedback, whereas computers are based on a fundamental design that does not fit with analogical and feedback thinking. They impose a binary, an all-or-nothing, approach to everything. Moreover, the social world and institutions that have developed aroun…Read more
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50Manuel DeLanda. "Materialist Phenomenology: A Philosophy of Perception."Philosophy in Review 42 (2): 4-6. 2022.
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15Hector J. Levesque, "Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI."Philosophy in Review 41 (1): 25-28. 2021.
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20Luciano Floridi, "The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design."Philosophy in Review 40 (3): 112-114. 2020.
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9The Tyranny in Science: The Case of Hugh Everett’s Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum MechanicsIn Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor (eds.), The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie, Springer Verlag. pp. 225-239. 2018.Hugh Everett’s “Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”, though endorsed and promoted by his mentor John Wheeler, was dismissed by the mainstream in quantum mechanics. Why was it sidelined by those who endorsed the Copenhagen interpretation and John von Neumann’s approach to the famous measurement problem? Everett’s theory was taken up later by Bryce DeWitt under an interpretation, the many worlds universe theory, that is not actually how Everett interpreted his own formulation. …Read more
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16Ernst Gombrich, Karl Popper und die KunsttheorieIn Giuseppe Franco (ed.), Handbuch Karl Popper, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 667-678. 2019.Der Kunsthistoriker Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich hat einen „wissenschaftlichen“ oder kognitiven Ansatz zur Erforschung der Geschichte und Psychologie der Künste entwickelt, der sehr maßgeblich von der Wissenschaftstheorie seines engen Freundes Karl Popper beeinflusst worden ist. Die geistige Nähe zwischen beiden wird in Gombrichs zentraler Arbeit zur Wiederentdeckung der Repräsentation in der Renaissance und zur Historiografie der Kunst deutlich. Ihre Differenzen verdienen allerdings ebenfalls Beac…Read more
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10Book Review: Logic of the Digital by Aden Evens (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 50 (4): 381-387. 2020.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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13The Two Cultures ProblemThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 37 266-274. 1998.Many post World War II thinkers have been perplexed by the problem of how or even whether people from different cultures can understand each other. The problem arose when we started to think of culture as formative of language and thought. The common assumptions of most theorists of language are that language is fundamental to thinking and culture; and language, thought, culture or humanity is a natural product of biological evolution. Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi-seen as diametrically oppose…Read more
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7Book Review: Towards Discursive Education, Philosophy, Technology, and Modern Education (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (5): 702-704. 2014.
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17Book Reviews : George W. Ladd, Imagination in Research: An Economist's View . Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1987. Pp. 146, $10.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20 (3): 414-416. 1990.
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22Markus Gabriel, "I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century." Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 39 (4): 177-179. 2019.
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35Post-KnowledgeDialogue and Universalism 29 (2): 123-145. 2019.The monopolization of our techno-scientific culture by digital information technology, the Technopoly has unintentionally resulted in the extinction of knowledge or postknowledge, by reducing knowledge to systems of symbols—formalized algorithmic hierarchies of symbol-systems without external reference; a totalistic virtuality, or real virtuality. The extinction of knowledge or post-knowledge has resulted in two mutually reinforcing situations. One situation is the rise of a new elite of technol…Read more
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5Review of Turner (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (5): 434-439. 2019.Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ahead of Print.
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13No One Can Understand Quantum Mechanics [at Least Not Until After It Is Replaced by a Superior Theory] (review)Science & Education 28 (6-7): 827-831. 2019.
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51Knowing as a Subversive Activity: A Conversation with Steve Fuller’s Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power GamePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (1): 69-84. 2019.Fuller carries social constructionism to its bitter end in his theory of the “post-truth condition”—endemic to current life and to the entirety of Western Philosophy. According to Fuller, the gates to the elitist power/knowledge-games have been crashed by the democratic mob. Fuller implicitly extends Popper’s radicalism in the philosophy of science to political and social philosophy. Rather than Popper’s piecemeal social engineering for the purpose of minimizing human suffering, Fuller promotes …Read more
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19Is Fallibilism Mistaken? (review)Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science 4 182-189. 2018.Book review: Menachem Fisch, Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency.
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5Book Reviews : Raphael Sassower, Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience. Routledge Kegan Paul, New York, 1995. $52.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (4): 545-551. 1997.
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18Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking II, Trans. Ciaran Cronin. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 38 (2): 60-62. 2018.
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27The Collapse and Afterlife of CyberneticsMalapi-NelsonAlcibiadesThe Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics: A Transhumanist Lesson for Emerging Technologies, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. vii+299 pp. $99.99. ISBN Hardcover 978-3-319-54516-5 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 48 (3): 333-340. 2018.
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18How to Get to No, or Arguing for the Sake of Truth (review)Science & Education 26 (6): 735-738. 2017.
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