Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1989

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401075718

ISBN (eBook): 9789400923805

Full citation:

Fred D'agostino, I. C. Jarvie (eds), Freedom and rationality, Berlin, Springer, 1989

Freedom and rationality

Contents

The logic of consensus and of extremes

Joseph Agassi

3-21

Decision theory, political theory and the hats hypothesis

Philip Pettit

23-34

Negative utilitarianism

Smart

35-46

Metaphysical individualism

Gregory Currie

47-65

The ontology of explanation

David-Hillel Rúben

67-85

Reflections on conceptual openness and conceptual tension

Leon J. Goldstein

87-110

Stereotypes, statistics, and schemata

Noretta Koertge

111-124

Human rights and the new circle of equity

Ernest Gellner

125-140

The degeneration of Popper's theory of demarcation

Adolf Grünbaum

141-161

Science as a particular mode of thinking and the "taming of the state"

Gérard Radnitzky

163-181

Antilogikē

Paul Feyerabend

185-189

Kuhn studies

J. N. Hattiangadi

191-205

Unfathomed knowledge in a bottle

Bartley

207-223

Watkins's evolutionism between Hume and Kant

Peter Munz

225-246

Why both Popper and Watkins fail to solve the problem of induction

John Worrall

257-296

Saving science from scepticism

Alan Musgrave

297-323

John Watkins on the empirical basis and the corroboration of scientific theories

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