Metaphysics and science
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Metaphysics and science
（Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 161 . Critical rationalism : essays for Joseph Agassi ; v. 1）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1995
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Critical rationalism, metaphysics and science
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I suppose Joseph Agassi's best and dearest self-description, his cher ished wish, is to practice what his 1988 book promises: The Gentle Art of Philosophical Polemics. But for me, and for so many who know him, our Agassi is tough-minded, not tender, not so gentle. True to his beloved critical thinking, he is ever the falsificationist, testing himself of course as much as everyone else. How, he asks himself, can he engage others in their own self-critical exploration? Irritate? Question their logic, their facts, their presuppositions, their rationales? Subvert their reasoning, uncover their motives? Help them to lose their balance, but always help them, make them do it to, and for, themselves. Out of their own mouths, and minds, and imagination. A unique teacher, in classroom and out; not for everyone. Agassi is not quite a tight textual Talmudist disputant, not quite the competitor in the marketplace of ideas offered for persuasive sale, not quite the clever cross-examining lawyer advocate, not quite a philosopher-scientist, not a sceptic more than necessary, not quite embat tled in the bloody world but not ever above the battle either . . . but a good deal of all of these, and steeped in intelligence and good will.
Table of Contents
- Frontispiece
- Portrait of Joseph Agassi. Editorial Preface. The Philosopher as All-Rounder -- Introduction to Volume I
- I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor. Metaphysics. Universals as Tyrants and Mediators
- P.K. Feyerabend. Our Difficulties in Finding the Right Words
- B.-A. Scharfstein. The Confrontation and Monadology
- A. Shimony. Epiphenomenalism and Human Freedom
- J. Watkins. Religion, Science, and the Myth of the Framework
- H. Albert. You Can't Have Science as your Religion
- T. Settle. Religion and Rational Philosophy: Coming of Age
- N. Laor. Logic, Reasoning, and Philosophy of Science. Peano, Logicism and Formalism
- M. Segre. How Little Uniformity Need an Inductive Inference Presuppose? D. Miller. The Poverty of Rational Choice Theory
- M. Bunge. Criticism, Reasoning and Judgment in Science
- M. Finocchiaro. Towards a Popperian Philosophy of Science: the Problem of Credit
- N. Koertge. The Mathematics of Philosophy: a Brief Review of my Work
- I.J. Good. Indices.
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An outstanding feature of this book is the broad range of the contributors, drawn from Europe, the Middle East and North America, testifying both to the range of Professor Agassi's interests and the geographical spread of his influence.
Most contributors use Agassi's ideas as a springboard to engage in debate on issues, or offer a contribution in an area that interests him. In this volume contributors consider such questions as Agassi's philosophy of education, in practice as well as in theory; the impact of psychologism in philosophy; the origins of critical rationalism in the Bible; the debates in economics stimulated by the work of Popper and Agassi, and many other topics.
Besides the special topics, the reader gains some sense of the fruitfulness of critical rationalism in the hands of Agassi's friends and colleagues.
Table of Contents
- Frontispiece
- Portrait of Joseph Agassi
- Nili Kook. Introduction (II)
- I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor. The Social Sciences and Humanities. Prometheus Perplexed
- E. Gellner. Philosophical Method, Modified Essentialism and the Open Society
- J. Shearmur. Reason and Myth in Politics
- G. Weiler. The First World War and 1991
- J. Hattiangadi. Pedagogy as Psychology: a View from Within
- R. Sassower. All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- M. Banton. Style vs. Substance in Economic Methodology
- L.A. Boland. Preliminary Report on Efforts of Psychologism to gain Influences in Proper Epistemological, Methodological and Psychological Societies
- J. Wettersten. Epistemological and Methodological Concerns of Feminist Social Scientists
- J. Buber Agassi. Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) in Context -- a Study of Wisdom as Constructive Scepticism
- M. Fisch. Commitment and Paradox
- A. Hannay. The Place of the Sciences and of the Fine Arts in the Intellectual Scheme of Things
- I.C. Jarvie. Two Commandments for the Humanities
- W. Berkson. Bibiliography of Joseph Agassi to 1993. Indices.
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