Joseph Agassi

Joseph Agassi
Joseph Agassi
Nascimento	7 de maio de 1927 Jerusalém
Morte	23 de janeiro de 2023 (95 anos)
Cidadania	Israel
Cônjuge	Judith Buber Agassi
Alma mater	Universidade Hebraica de Jerusalém London School of Economics
Ocupação	filósofo, professor universitário
Empregador(a)	London School of Economics, Universidade de Boston, Universidade de Tel Aviv, Universidade de Hong Kong, Universidade de Illinois em Urbana-Champaign, Universidade Iorque
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Joseph Agassi (Jerusalém, 7 de maio de 1927 – 23 de janeiro de 2023) foi um académico israelita com contribuições em lógica, método científico e em filosofia em geral.

Foi professor de filosofia na London School of Economics, na Universidade de Hong Kong, na Universidade de Illinois e na Universidade de Boston, antes de Toronto e Tel-Aviv.

Extracto da obra

Em inglês

• Towards an dog of Science, History and Theory, Beiheft 2, 1963; facsimile reprint, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1967.
• The Continuing Revolution: A History of Physics From The Greeks to Einstein, Nova York: McGraw Hill, 1968, 222 pp.
• Faraday as a Natural Philosopher, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1971, xiv + 359 pp.
• Science in Flux, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 28, 1975. 523 pp. Inclui novo material: “Prologue: On Stability and Flux”; “Towards a Theory of Ad Hoc Hypotheses”, “The Traditional Ad Hoc Use of Instrumentalism”; “Modified Conventionalism” e mais. Apêndices sobre Kant e sobre Buber.
• (com Yehuda Fried) Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 50, 1976, 200 pp.
• Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1977, 370 pp.
• Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science, Boston Studies, 65, 1981. 500 pp. Includes new material: “Science in its Social Setting”; “Was Wittgenstein Really Necessary?”; “The Autonomy of Science”; “Cultural Lag in Science”; “Scientific Schools and Their Success”; “Research Projects”; “What Makes a Scientific Golden Age?”; “Max Weber's Scientific Religion”; “Technocracy and Scientific Progress”; “Standards to Live By”. (A versão italiana do último item é “Teoria e pratica della psicoanalisi”, Enzo Morpurgo, ed., La psicoanalisi tra scienza e filosofia, Torino: Loescher editore, 1981, 47-55.)
• (comYehuda Fried) Psychiatry as Medicine, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1983, 190 pp.
• Technology: Philosophical and Social Aspects, Episteme, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1985, xix + 261 pp.
• The Gentle Art of Philosophical Polemics: Selected Reviews and Comments, LaSalle IL: Open Court, 1988, xii + 521 pp. Inclui novo material: “German Philosophy Englished”, “Analytic Philosophy Today”, “Grünbuam on (Popper and) Freud”, “Cohen Contra Kuhn”, “The Philosophy of Hans Albert” e “Karl Popper: A Retrospect”.
• (com Nathaniel Laor) Diagnosis: Philosophical and Medical Perspectives, Episteme, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990, xviii + 248 pp.
• The Siblinghood of Humanity: Introduction to Philosophy. Delmar NY: Caravan Press, 1990, 1991, 245 pp.
• Radiation Theory and the Quantum Revolution, Basel: Birkhäuser, 1993, xii+170 pp.
• A Philosopher's Apprentice: Karl Popper's Workshop, Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper and Critical Rationalism, Amsterdam e Atlanta GA: Editions Rodopi, 1993, xx+252 pp.
• Liberal Nationalism for Israel: Towards an Israeli National Identity, Jerusalem and New York: Gefen. Tradução do livro hebraico de 1984.
• Science and Culture, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 231, 2003, xxii+434 pp. Inclui novo material: “Science and Controversy”, :The Two Books”, “Philosophy without Science”, “The Inner World”, “Science as a Public Enterprise”, “Science and Commonsense”, “The Siblinghood of Humanity”, e “For Public Responsibility for Spaceship earth”.
• Joseph Agassi, La filosofia e l’individuo: Come un filosofo della scienza vede la vita. Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2005

Morte

Agassi morreu no dia 23 de janeiro de 2023, aos 95 anos.

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