Freedom and Rationality: Essays in Honor of John Watkins From his Colleagues and Friends - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9400923813 ISBN 13: 9789400923812

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

I. Studies in the History and Methodology of Social and Political Theory.- The Logic of Consensus and of Extremes.- Decision Theory, Political Theory and the Hats Hypothesis.- Negative Utilitarianism.- Metaphysical Individualism.- The Ontology of Explanation.- Reflections on Conceptual Openness and Conceptual Tension.- Stereotypes, Statistics, and Schemata.- Human Rights and the New Circle of Equity.- The Degeneration of Popper's Theory of Demarcation.- Science as a Particular Mode of Thinking and the 'Taming of the State'.- II. Studies in the History and Methodology of the Natural Sciences.- Antilogik?.- Kuhn Studies.- Unfathomed Knowledge in a Bottle.- Watkins's Evolutionism between Hume and Kant.- The 'Optimum' Aim for Science.- Why Both Popper and Watkins Fail to Solve the Problem of Induction.- Saving Science from Scepticism.- John Watkins on the Empirical Basis and the Corroboration of Scientific Theories.- The Unity of Theories.- Appendix: Bibliography of the Published Work of J.W.N. Watkins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400923813
• ISBN 13: 9789400923812
• Binding: Paperback