Freedom and Rationality Essays in Honor of John Watkins : From His Colleagues and Friends

Fred D’Agostino · Ian Charles Jarvie · John W. Watkins

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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.

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