Bøger af David Stove

In fewer than two-hundred pages, David Stove leaves the well-established and widely regarded edifice of the academic philosophy of science in smoldering ruins.This book provides a modern history of scientific reasoning, from David Hume's inductive skepticism to Karl Popper's outright denial of induction, to the increasingly irrational and absurd scientific views that followed. When Popper untethered science from induction, Stove argues, he triggered a postmodernist nightmare of utter nonsense culminating in Paul Feyerabend's summation that "anything goes" when it comes to defining or describing science. With undeniable logic, a deft analysis of the linguistic slight-of-hand that make absurd arguments seem reasonable, and regular displays of wit, Stove gives the reader a front row seat to one of the greatest unforced errors in the history of modern thought. Stove's views are entirely consistent with the origins of scientific inference and logic, as well as modern advances in probability theory, and yet he remains largely unnoticed by most of the academic world. From Stove's insider-outsider perspective, the train wreck that is academically accepted philosophy of science and "science studies" is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining subject of study.Scientific Irrationalism is the perfect place to begin any examination of what science is--and what it is not.

This work opens with Stove's attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of science, exposing the roots of this fashionable attitude. The second section contains topical essays on subjects such as feminism, race or the Enlightenment. The text concludes with blistering attacks on Darwinism.

Secession, State & Liberty examines history, political philosophy, ethics, and economic theory of secessionist movements in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It is based on a conference, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, on the political economy of secession.

Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era

Since its inception in the 1940s, the field of science studies has been the center of controversy and debate. This work shows that Kuhn and Popper share considerable common ground, and identifies the logical mistakes and conceptual allusions made by Kuhn and Popper and their supporters.

An investigation of the political impulse to secede, presenting essays by Donald Livingston, Murray N. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson and Bruce Benson, among others. They include analyses of secessionist movements in the United States, Canada and Europe.

This is a book on philosophy which subjects several theories to critical examination and asks how they relate to our commonsensical notions of reality. Among the celebrated philosophers whom the author tries to debunk are Plato, Hegel, Kant, Foucault, Popper, Nozick, Feyerabend and Goodman.

Argues that Darwin's theory of evolution is a ridiculous slander on human beings. This book is suitable for people who want to understand the issues behind the hotly debated scientific controversy.