Bar-Am, Nimrod
Encouraging Openness
Part I. Reflections on Rationalism as a Tradition and a Choice
1. Why Don’t Scientists Respect Philosophers?
Mario Bunge
2. Evaluative Selection in Multimerit Situations
Nicholas Rescher
3. Joseph Agassi from Metaphysics to Politics
Christopher R. Donohue
4. Horror Dogmatis
Zuzana Parusniková
5. Comprehensively Critical Metapolitics
Michael Chiariello
6. Feng Shui: An Overlooked Topic for Critical Rationalists
Michael R. Matthews
Part II. The Sceptic Quest for a Sensible World
7. Verisimilitude: Why and How
Ilkka Niiniluoto
8. The Story of the German Translation of Tarski’s Book on Truth
Jan Woleński
9. Two Philosophical Contributions to Modern Physics
Jagdish Hattiangadi
10. Lessons from the Philosophy of Science to Data Mining and Vice Versa
Abraham Meidan
11. The Mystique of Computer Technology and the Waning of Critical Enquiry
Sheldon Richmond
12. Francis Bacon, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Modern Experimental Biology
Ute Deichmann
13. Ebola in West Africa: Biosocial and Biomedical Reflections
Daniel B. Cohen
Part III. Making Sense of a Changing Past: History and Historiography
14. Jacob & Esau Today: The End of a Two Millennia Paradigm?
Malachi H. Hacohen
15. Charity, Logic, and Para-Clericalism: Rereading Agassi on Koestler on Galileo
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
16. What Is the Problem? Understanding the History of Ideas
William Berkson
17. Reflections on Science and Imagination
Robert S. Cohen
18. The Legends of One Methodology of Science Used Throughout Its History and Its Independence from the Institutions in which Science Has Been Conducted
John R. Wettersten
19. Beyond Wavefunctions: A Time-Symmetric Nonlocal Ontology for Quantum Mechanics
Yakir Aharonov, Eliahu Cohen, Avshalom C. Elitzur
Part IV. The Open Society and Its Challenges
20. Critical Rationalism Applied: A Footnote to
Margaret Ng
21.
Miriam Farhi Rodrig
22. The Perfect Mediator and His Limitations: Toward a Multifaceted Approach to Peacemaking in the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle
Sapir Handelman
23. Joseph Agassi’s Educational Thoughts in
Ian S. Winchester
24. Can the Israeli Academia Replace Mandatory Conscription?
Amir Meital
25. Education for Democracy
Ronald Swartz
26. How Can We Attain Both Democracy and Constitutionalism?
Kiichi Tachibana
27. Civil Nationalism: The Only Buffer Against Fascism and Fundamentalism
Chen Yehezkely
28. Obstructing the Realization of Civil Responsibility: Political, Sociological, Historical, and Psychological Aspects of Civil Responsibility
Chemi Ben-Noon
29. The Secular Problem of Evil
John Kekes
Part V. The Human Study of Human Society
30. Towards A General Sociology of Science
Ian C. Jarvie
31. Critical Rationalism in Sociology
Michael Banton
32. Worker Bees and Slave Labor
Hilde Hein
33. The Pitfall of Hypostatization and the Reality of Social Things
Fred Eidlin, Barry Eidlin
34. On Being a Popperian Economist
Lawrence A. Boland
35. Capitalism at a Crossroad
Raphael Sassower
36. Notes on Revisiting Klappholz and Agassi’s “Methodological Prescriptions in Economics”
Lucien Foldes
37. Joseph Agassi, the M
Richard G. Lipsey
Part VI. Philosophical Encounters
38. To Transcend the Popper-Agassi Impasse
Nathaniel Laor
39. Joe Agassi, Intellectual Irritant
Rafe Champion
40. Critical Rationalism as Therapy
Michael Segre
41. Dungeons and Dragons: A Lesson in Etiquette from Professor Agassi
Joan Bailey
42. Drive Around the Block
Charles Sawyer
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics
- Editor
- Bar-Am, Nimrod
- Gattei, Stefano
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Page amount
- 14 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319576695
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-57668-8