Overview
- Details recent developments and issues in critical rationalism
- Challenges the received view on a variety of topics concerning science, religion, and education
- Presents and expands the works of one of the most original philosophers of science today
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 325)
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reflections on Rationalism as a Tradition and a Choice
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The Sceptic Quest for a Sensible World
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Making Sense of a Changing Past: History and Historiography
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About this book
The essays present Agassi’s own views on critical rationalism. They also develop and expand upon his work in new and provocative ways. The authors include Agassi's most notable pupils, friends, and colleagues. Overall, their contributions challenge the received view on a variety of issues concerning science, religion, and education.
Readers will find well-reasoned arguments on such topics as the secular problem of evil, religion and critical thinking, liberal democratic educational communities, democracy and constitutionalism, and capitalism at a crossroad.
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To Joseph Agassi, philosophy is the practice of reason, where reason is understood as the relentless search for criticisms of the best available explanations that we have to the world around us. This book not only honors one of the most original philosophers of science today. It also offers readers insights into a school of thought that lies at the heart of philosophy.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stefano Gattei is a philosopher and historian of science, currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in History at the California Institute of Technology. He worked extensively on key issues and authors of contemporary philosophy of science, as well as on the history of early modern astronomy and cosmology. Most recently, he co-edited, with Joseph Agassi, the fourth volume ofPaul Feyerabend’s collected philosophical papers: Physics and Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). His Early Biographies of Galileo is forthcoming with Princeton University Press; he is currently working on a book on Johannes Kepler and the role of engraved frontispieces and title-pages in the Scientific Revolution (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encouraging Openness
Book Subtitle: Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday
Editors: Nimrod Bar-Am, Stefano Gattei
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57668-8Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86220-0Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57669-5Published: 22 June 2017
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 584
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics