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Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, George Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the philosophy and history of science. Here it appears in a revised and updated with responses to these reviews and with many additional chapters, some already classic, others new. They are all paradigms of the author’s innovative way of writing fresh and engaging chapters in the history of the natural sciences.

Science --- Historiography. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science

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This volume examines Popper’s philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view of science as inductive. Starting from the assumption that Hume’s criticism of induction is valid, the book explores the central criticism and objections that these three critics have raised. Their objections have met with great success, are significant and deserve paraphrase. One also may consider them reasonable protests against Popper’s high standards rather than fundamental criticisms of his philosophy. The book starts out with a preliminary discussion of some central background material and essentials of Popper’s philosophy. It ends with nutshell representations of the philosophies of Popper. Kuhn, Feyerabend and Lakatos. The middle section of the book presents the connection between these philosophers and explains what their central ideas consists of, what the critical arguments are, how they presented them, and how valid they are. In the process, the author claims that Popper's popular critics used against him arguments that he had invented (and answered) without saying so. They differ from him mainly in that they demanded of all criticism that it should be constructive: do not stop believing a refuted theory unless there is a better alternative to it. Popper hardly ever discussed belief, delegating its study to psychology proper; he usually discussed only objective knowledge, knowledge that is public and thus open to public scrutiny.

Popper, Karl R. --- Feyerabend, Paul, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl --- Popper, Karl Raimund --- Popper, K.R. --- Philosophy (General). --- Science --- Philosophy, general. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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Philosophy of nature --- History of physics --- Faraday, Michael --- Physics --- history --- Faraday, Michael, --- Faraday, M. --- Faradeĭ, Mikhail, --- Faradeĭ, Maĭkŭl, --- Fa-la-ti, --- פאראדײ, מ. --- Faradeĭ, Maĭkl, --- Фарадей, Майкл,

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In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral part of culture, and both scientism and relativism ignore the cultural value of science. This work helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. Agassi provides examples of the value of science to culture at large, discussions of items of the general culture and their interactions with science, and practical strategies and tools. He offers a wide variety of case studies to exemplify these. In this book Agassi puts significant topics such as autonomy, tolerance, reason, philosophy and responsibility on the agenda of democratic philosophy today.

Philosophy of science --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Relativism --- Relativisme --- Relativisme (Filosofie) --- Relativisme (Philosophie) --- Relativiteit --- Relativity --- Relativité --- Scientism --- Scientisme --- Sciëntisme --- Relativity. --- Science --- Scientism. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Normal science --- Reality --- Relationism --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Methodology --- Epistemology. --- History. --- Political science. --- History, general. --- Political Science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Psychology

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Science --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- 5:1 --- -#KVIV --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen-:-Filosofie. Psychologie --- Philosophy. --- 5:1 Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen-:-Filosofie. Psychologie --- Natural sciences --- Philosophie des sciences --- -Philosophy