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  • Games to Play and Games not to Play
    Joseph Agassi / Uri Weiss
    This book contributes to the theoretical discussions of equilibria that rest on error―in which we include mistaken choices of games to play. Extant game theory recommends diverse strategies (plans of actions) for various given games, particularly those in Nash equilibria, in which no player benefits from one-sided strategy alteration. The literature also refers to the design of...
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    218,83 €

  • Games to Play and Games not to Play
    Joseph Agassi / Uri Weiss
    This book contributes to the theoretical discussions of equilibria that rest on error―in which we include mistaken choices of games to play. Extant game theory recommends diverse strategies (plans of actions) for various given games, particularly those in Nash equilibria, in which no player benefits from one-sided strategy alteration. The literature also refers to the design of...
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    48,04 €

  • Philosophy of Practical Affairs
    Joseph Agassi
    This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twenty-first-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life? ...
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    128,65 €

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
    Joseph Agassi
    This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein’s philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. The author writes from the viewpoint of critical rationalism. The tone of his analysis is friendly and appreciative yet critical.Of these papers, seven are on the background to the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Five papers examine different aspects of it: one on the ...
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    120,13 €

  • Beg to Differ
    Abraham Meidan / Joseph Agassi
    This book aims to familiarize readers in a very simple and easy mannerthe rules and proper procedures of rational debate. It will help reducethe frustration that many experience when engaging in debates. The properconduct of debate is both fun and mentally stimulating, and we trust that implementing the rules ofdebate outlined in this book will help you and your friends increas...
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    36,21 €

  • Popper and His Popular Critics
    Joseph Agassi
    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 h...
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    79,11 €

  • Science and Society
    Joseph Agassi
    'If a science has to be supported by fraudulent means, let it perish. ' With these words of Kepler, Agassi plunges into the actual troubles and glories of science (321). The SOciology of science is no foreign intruder upon scientific knowledge in these essays, for we see clearly how Agassi transforms the tired internalistJexternalist debate about the ...
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    132,64 €

  • Science and Society
    J. Agassi / Joseph Agassi
    'If a science has to be supported by fraudulent means, let it perish. ' With these words of Kepler, Agassi plunges into the actual troubles and glories of science (321). The sociology of science is no foreign intruder upon scientific knowledge in these essays, for we see clearly how Agassi transforms the tired internalist/externalist debate about the ...
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    341,67 €

  • Psychiatry as Medicine
    A. Fried / Joseph Agassi
    PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussi...
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    134,32 €

  • Diagnosis
    Joseph Agassi / N. Laor
    1. GENERAL The term 'diagnostics' refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It borrows from different sciences and from different philosophies. Traditionally, the general framework of diagnostics was not distinguished from the framework of medicine. It was not taught in special co...
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    207,73 €

  • Science and Culture
    Joseph Agassi
    This work addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. It helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. It provides examples of the value of science to culture, discussions of item...
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    206,94 €

  • Science and Its History
    Joseph Agassi
    Chroniclers in the Courts of Science: Preliminary Essays on the Traditions and the History of Science.- Towards an Historiography of Science.- Historiographic essays.- Historical Essays. ...
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    268,01 €

  • Science and Its History
    Joseph Agassi
    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, Geroge 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...
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    242,05 €

  • Philosophy from a Skeptical Perspective
    Abraham Meidan / Joseph Agassi
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    42,35 €

  • Science and Culture
    J. Agassi / Joseph Agassi / Kluwer Academic Publishers
    This work addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. It helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. It provides examples of the value of science to culture, discussions of item...
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    205,57 €

  • Critical Rationalism, the Social Sciences and the Humanities
    Joseph Agassi
    An outstanding feature of this book is the broad range of the contributors, drawn from Europe, the Middle East and North America, testifying both to the range of Professor Agassi’s interests and the geographical spread of his influence. Most contributors use Agassi’s ideas as a springboard to engage in debate on issues, or offer a contribution i...
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    206,23 €

  • Diagnosis
    Joseph Agassi / N. Laor
    1. GENERAL The term 'diagnostics' refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It borrows from different sciences and from different philosophies. Traditionally, the general framework of diagnostics was not distinguished from the framework of medicine. It was not taught in special co...
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    206,54 €

  • Psychiatry as Medicine
    A. Fried / Joseph Agassi
    PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussi...
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    132,96 €

  • Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology
    Joseph Agassi
    The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual. (1) Present day philosophy of man and sciences of man suffer from the Greek mis­ taken polarization of everything human into nature and convention which is (allegedly) good and evil, which is (allegedly) truth and fal­ sity, which is (allegedly) rationality and irrationality, to wit, the polar­ iz...
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    267,48 €

  • Paranoia
    A. Fried / Joseph Agassi
    There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par­ ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non­ rational or irrational, ...
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    134,16 €

  • Paranoia
    A. Fried / Joseph Agassi
    There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par­ ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non­ rational or irrational, ...
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    132,96 €

  • Science in Flux
    Joseph Agassi
    Joseph Agassi is a critic, a gadfly, a debunker and deflater; he is also a constructor, a speculator and an imaginative scholaro In the history and philosophy of science, he has been Peck’s bad boy, delighting in sharp and pungent criticism, relishing directness and simplicity, and enjoying it all enormously. As one of that small group of Popper’s stu...
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    266,39 €

  • Science in Flux
    J. Agassi / Joseph Agassi
    Joseph Agassi is a critic, a gadfly, a debunker and deflater; he is also a constructor, a speculator and an imaginative scholaro In the history and philosophy of science, he has been Peck’s bad boy, delighting in sharp and pungent criticism, relishing directness and simplicity, and enjoying it all enormously. As one of that small group of Popper’s stu...
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    267,74 €