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Freedom and Rationality

Essays in Honor of John Watkins From his Colleagues and Friends

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Editors:
  1. Fred D’Agostino

    1. University of New England, Australia

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  2. I. C. Jarvie

    1. York University, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 117)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Studies in the History and Methodology of Social and Political Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Logic of Consensus and of Extremes

      • Joseph Agassi
      Pages 3-21

    3. Decision Theory, Political Theory and the Hats Hypothesis

      • Philip Pettit
      Pages 23-34

    4. Negative Utilitarianism

      • J. J. C. Smart
      Pages 35-46

    5. Metaphysical Individualism

      • Gregory Currie
      Pages 47-65

    6. The Ontology of Explanation

      • David-Hillel Ruben
      Pages 67-85

    7. Reflections on Conceptual Openness and Conceptual Tension

      • Leon J. Goldstein
      Pages 87-110

    8. Stereotypes, Statistics, and Schemata

      • Noretta Koertge
      Pages 111-124

    9. Human Rights and the New Circle of Equity

      • Ernest Gellner
      Pages 125-140

    10. The Degeneration of Popper’s Theory of Demarcation

      • Adolf Grünbaum
      Pages 141-161

    11. Science as a Particular Mode of Thinking and the ‘Taming of the State’

      • Gerard Radnitzky
      Pages 163-181

  3. Studies in the History and Methodology of the Natural Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Antilogikē

      • Paul Feyerabend
      Pages 185-189

    3. Kuhn Studies

      • J. N. Hattiangadi
      Pages 191-205

    4. Unfathomed Knowledge in a Bottle

      • W. W. Bartley III
      Pages 207-223

    5. Watkins’s Evolutionism Between Hume and Kant

      • Peter Munz
      Pages 225-246

    6. The ‘Optimum’ Aim for Science

      • Fred D’Agostino
      Pages 247-256

    7. Why Both Popper and Watkins Fail to Solve the Problem of Induction

      • John Worrall
      Pages 257-296

    8. Saving Science from Scepticism

      • Alan Musgrave
      Pages 297-323
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About this book

x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of methodologi­ cal individualism, a debate which continues to this day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general area of philosophy of social science would be considered complete unless they contained at least one of Watkins's many contributions to the discussion of this issue. In 1957 Watkins published the flrst of a series of three papers (1957b, 1958d and 196Oa) in which he tried to codify and rehabilitate metaphysics within the Popperian philosophy, placing it somewhere between the analytic and the empirical. He thus signalled the emergence of an important implica­ tion of Popper's thought that had not to that point been stressed by Sir Karl himself, and which marked off his followers from the antimetaphysical ideas of the regnant logical positivists. In 1965 years of work in political philosophy and in the history of philosophy in the seventeenth century were brought to fruition in Watkins's widely cited and admired Hobbes's System of Ideas (1965a, second edition 1973d). This book is an important contribution not just to our understanding of Hobbes's political thinking, but, perhaps more importantly, to our understanding of the way in which a system of ideas is constituted and applied. Watkins built on earlier work in developing an account of Hobbes's ideas in which was revealed and clarifled the unity of Hobbes's metaphysical, epistemological and political ideas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New England, Australia

    Fred D’Agostino

  • York University, Toronto, Canada

    I. C. Jarvie

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Freedom and Rationality

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of John Watkins From his Colleagues and Friends

  • Editors: Fred D’Agostino, I. C. Jarvie

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2380-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0264-3Published: 31 August 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7571-8Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2380-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 388

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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