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Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics and Science - Essays for Joseph Agassi Volume I (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics and Science - Essays for Joseph Agassi Volume I (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 161
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I suppose Joseph Agassi's best and dearest self-description, his
cher ished wish, is to practice what his 1988 book promises: The
Gentle Art of Philosophical Polemics. But for me, and for so many
who know him, our Agassi is tough-minded, not tender, not so
gentle. True to his beloved critical thinking, he is ever the
falsificationist, testing himself of course as much as everyone
else. How, he asks himself, can he engage others in their own
self-critical exploration? Irritate? Question their logic, their
facts, their presuppositions, their rationales? Subvert their
reasoning, uncover their motives? Help them to lose their balance,
but always help them, make them do it to, and for, themselves. Out
of their own mouths, and minds, and imagination. A unique teacher,
in classroom and out; not for everyone. Agassi is not quite a tight
textual Talmudist disputant, not quite the competitor in the
marketplace of ideas offered for persuasive sale, not quite the
clever cross-examining lawyer advocate, not quite a
philosopher-scientist, not a sceptic more than necessary, not quite
embat tled in the bloody world but not ever above the battle either
. . . but a good deal of all of these, and steeped in intelligence
and good will."
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