{"product_id":"encouraging-openness-nimrod-bar-am-9783319862200","title":"Encouraging Openness: Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Reflections on Rationalism as a Tradition and a Choice.- Chapter 1. Why Don't Scientists Respect Philosophers? (Mario Bunge).- Chapter 2. Evaluative Selection in Multimerit Situations (Nicholas Rescher).- Chapter 3. Joseph Agassi from Metaphysics to Politics (Christopher Donohue).- Chapter 4. Horror Dogmatis (Zuzana Parusniková).- Chapter 5. Comprehensively Critical Metapolitics (Michael Chiariello).- Chapter 6. Feng Shui: An Overlooked Topic for Examination by Critical Rationalists (Michael Matthews).- Part 2. The Sceptic Quest for a Sensible World.- Chapter 7. Verisimilitude: Why and How (Ilkka Niiniluoto).- Chapter 8. The Story of the German Translation of Tarski's Book on Truth (Jan Woleński).- Chapter 9. Two Philosophical Contributions to Modern Physics (Jagdish Hattiangadi).- Chapter 10. Lessons from the Philosophy of Science to Data Mining and Vice Versa (Abraham Meidan).- Chapter 11. The Mystique of Computer Technology and the Waning of Critical Enquiry (Sheldon Richmond).- Chapter 12. Francis Bacon, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Modern Experimental Biology (Ute Deichman).- Chapter 13. Ebola in West Africa: Biosocial and Biomedical Reflections (Daniel Cohen).- Part 3. Making Sense of a Changing Past.- Chapter 14. Jacob \u0026amp; Esau Today (Malachi Hacohen).- Chapter 15. Charity, Logic, and Para-clericalism: Rereading Agassi on Koestler on Galileo (Maurice Finocchiaro).- Chapter 16. What is the Problem? Understanding the History of Ideas(William Berkson).- Chapter 17. Reflections on Science and Imagination(Robert S. Cohen).- Chapter 18. The Legends of One Methodology of Science Used throughout Its History and Its Independence from the Institutions in which Science Has Been Conducted (John Wettersten).- Chapter 19. Beyond Wavefunctions: A Time-Symmetric Nonlocal Ontology for Quantum Mechanics (Yakir Aharonov, Eliahu Cohen and Avshalom C. Elitzur).- Part 4. The Open Society and its Challenges.- Chapter 20. Critical Rationalism Applied: A Footnote to \u003ci\u003eThe Siblinghood of Humanity \u003c\/i\u003e(Margaret Ng).- Chapter 21. \u003ci\u003eEn Route\u003c\/i\u003e to the \"Siblinghood of Humanity\"? (Miriam Fahri Rodrig).- Chapter 22. The Perfect Mediator and His Limitations: Toward a Multifaceted Approach to Peacemaking in the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle (Sapir Handelman).- Chapter 23. Joseph Agassi's Educational Thoughts in \u003ci\u003eInterchange\u003c\/i\u003e (1970-1987) (Ian Winchester).- Chapter 24. Can the Israeli Academia Replace Mandatory Conscription? (Amir Maytal).- Chapter 25. Education for Democracy (Ronald Swartz).- Chapter 26. How Can We Attain Both Democracy and Constitutionalism? (Kiichi Tachibana).- Chapter 27. Civil Nationalism: the Only Buffer against Fascism and Fundamentalism (Chen Yehezkely).- Chapter 28.Obstructing the Realization of Civil Responsibility: Political, Sociological, Historical, and Psychological Aspects of Civil Responsibility (Chemi Ben-Noon).- Chapter 29. The Secular Problem of Evil (John Kekes).- Part 5. The Human Study of Human Culture.- Chapter 30. Towards A General Sociology of Science (Ian Jarvie).- Chapter 31. Critical Rationalism in Sociology (Michael Banton).- Chapter 32. Worker Bees and Slave Labor (Hilde Hein).- Chapter 33. The Pitfall of Hypostatization and the Reality of Social Things (Fred Eidlin).- Chapter 34. On Being a Popperian Economist (Lawrence Boland).- Chapter 35. Capitalism at a Crossroad (Raphael Sassower).- Chapter 36. Notes on Revisiting Klappholz and Agassi's \"Methodological Prescriptions in Economics\" (Lucien Foldes).- Chapter 37. Joseph Agassi, the M\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003eT Seminar, and His Influence on My Work (Richard Lipsey).- Part 6. Philosophical Encounters.- Chapter 38. To Transcend the Popper-Agassi Impasse (Nathaniel Laor).-Chapter 39. Joe Agassi, Intellectual Irritant (Raf Champion).- Chapter 40. Critical Rationalism as Therapy (Michael Segre).- Chapter 41. Dungeons and Dragons: A Lesson in Etiquette from Professor Agassi (Joan Bailey).- Chapter 42. 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