An edition of Encouraging Openness (2017)

Encouraging Openness

Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

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An edition of Encouraging Openness (2017)

Encouraging Openness

Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi called attention to rationality as the very starting point of every notable philosophical way of life.The essays present Agassi's own views on critical rationalism. They also develop and expand upon his work in new and provocative ways. The authors include Agassi's most notable pupils, friends, and colleagues. Overall, their contributions challenge the received view on a variety of issues concerning science, religion, and education.Readers will find well-reasoned arguments on such topics as the secular problem of evil, religion and critical thinking, liberal democratic educational communities, democracy and constitutionalism, and capitalism at a crossroad.To Joseph Agassi, philosophy is the practice of reason, where reason is understood as the relentless search for criticisms of the best available explanations that we have to the world around us. 0.

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Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Pages
584

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Source title: Encouraging Openness: Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)

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Library of Congress
Q174-175.3, B833 .E53 2017

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Format
hardcover
Number of pages
584

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Open Library
OL27999001M
ISBN 10
3319576682
ISBN 13
9783319576688
OCLC/WorldCat
981117493

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OL20706443W

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