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The mathematics of philosophy

a brief review of my work

I. J. Good

pp. 211-238

Résumé

Agassi has attacked subjectivism, for example, in his paper "Subjectivism — from infantile disease to chronic illness," and at first this made me wonder why I had been invited to contribute to the Festschrift. For much of my work in the philosophy of science and in statistics has a sub–jectivistic slant. To some extent I agree with him because, for example, I believe that the aim of a subjectivistic theory is to reduce subjectivism. But I believe it is impossible to cure the "disease" entirely, and that is where Agassi and I part company. I regard my basic position as so obvious as not to be worth defending directly and I thought it would be more useful to defend it indirectly by reviewing my work on the mathematics of the philosophy of science. It has a coherence that would be difficult to explain if my basic position was without merit.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Jarvie I. C., Laor Nathaniel (1995) Critical rationalism, metaphysics and science: essays for Joseph Agassi volume I. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 211-238

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0471-5_13

Citation complète:

Good I. J., 1995, The mathematics of philosophy: a brief review of my work. In I. C. Jarvie & N. Laor (eds.) Critical rationalism, metaphysics and science (211-238). Dordrecht, Springer.