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Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Volume 65) (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)
Robert E. Butts
Graham Solomon
Hardcover. Springer 2000-10.
ISBN 9780792366089
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Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science
whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the
irrational. He viewed scientific rationality as our major defence against the
various conditions that encourage witch hunts and similar acts of
irrationality, with all their attendant pain and terror. Butts saw himself as a
pragmatic realist, combining what he took to be the best aspects of logical
empiricism with a historically informed pragmatism, deeply appreciative of the
methods of science, trying to describe a kind of rationality essential in the
struggle to preserve human values. This volume gathers previously unpublished essays and lectures with some
previously published, thematically related essays. It includes essays and
lectures on philosophical aspects of the European witch hunt, on scientific
rationality and methodology, and on the relationships between science and
philosophy exhibited in the writings of such historically significant figures
as Leibniz, D'Alembert, Hume, Kant, Carnap and Kuhn. Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science
whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the
irrational. This volume gathers previously unpublished essays and lectures with
some previously published, thematically related essays.
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