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Louis Althusser's Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists and Other Essays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Aristides Baltas
Aristides Baltas*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, National Technical University
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‡Send reprint requests to the author, Physics Department, National Technical University, Zografou Campus, Athens 157 80, Greece.
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Alasdair MacIntyre's expression of the “profound gratitude we all owe to Althusser for having brought French Marxism back into dialogue with the rest of French philosophy” (as quoted by Elliott in his introduction to the selection under discussion, 1990, xi), important as it may be for a host of reasons, did not try to make Althusser's philosophy particularly attractive to philosophers of science. However, the present selection of essays does precisely this: It is almost ideally designed to mark the beginnings of an effective encounter of this particular brand of “French Marxism” with philosophy of science.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 647 - 658
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1993

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Footnotes

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I am indebted to Peter Machamer and to Wal Suchting for their comments.

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