David Stove

David Stove (* September 15, 1927; † 2 June 1994) was an Australian philosopher.

His main interest was in the following topics:

  • Defense of inductivism
  • Criticism of philosophers of science such as Karl Popper, Thomas S. Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos, which he attested explicitly irrationalism
  • Criticism of theology and idealism in philosophy
  • Criticism of feminism, Marxism and (French ) Semiotics
  • Criticism of Darwinism and sociobiology

Writings

Books:

  • Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism, Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
  • Popper and After: Four Modern Irrational Leftists, Oxford: Pergamon, 1982 ( also under the title Scientific irrationalism, New Brunswick: Transaction, 2001 and as Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific irrationalism, Macleay Press, Sydney, 1998. ).
  • The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
  • The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
  • Darwinian Fairytales, Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995, repr. New York: Encounter Books, 2006.
  • Against the Idols of the Age, ed Roger Kimball, New Brunswick ( U.S.) and London ( UK): Transaction, 1999.
  • On Enlightenment, ed Andrew Irvine, New Brunswick ( U.S.) and London ( UK): Transaction, 2002.

Products (some of which are included in the books mentioned above ):

  • " Hume, probability, and induction ", Philosophical Review 74, 1965, 160-177.
  • " Hempel's paradox ," Dialogue 4, 1966, 444-455.
  • "Relevance and the ravens " (with CA Hooker ), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18, 1968, 305-315.
  • " Deductivism ", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48, 1970, 76-98.
  • " Misconditionalisation ", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50, 1972, 173-183.
  • "Why shoulderstand probability be the guide of life? ", In DW Livingston & DT King, Hume: A Re - Evaluation, New York, 1976, pp. 50-68.
  • " Popper on scientific statements", Philosophy 53, 1978, 81-88.
  • "How Popper 's philosophy began ," Philosophy 57, 1982, 381-387.
  • " Paralytic epistemology, or the soundless scream", New Ideas in Psychology 2, 1984, 21-24.
  • " Karl Popper and the Jazz Age ," Encounter 65 ( 1), June 1985, 65-74.
  • " A farewell to arts: Marxism, semiotics and feminism ', Quadrant 30 ( 5), May 1986, 8-11.
  • "The Columbus argument ," Commentary 84 (6 ), 1987, 57-58.
  • " Righting wrongs" Commentary 85 ( 1), January 1988, 57-59.
  • " D' Holbach's dream: the central claimsoft of the Enlightenment", Quadrant 33 (12 ) December 1989, 28-31.
  • "The intellectual capacity of women", Proceedings of The Russellian Society 15, 1990 ( posthumously in Cricket versus Republicanism ).
  • "A new religion ", Philosophy 67, 1992, 233-240.
  • "So you think you are a Darwinian? ", Philosophy 69, 1994, 267-77.
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