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    Scientific objectivity and its contexts.Evandro Agazzi - 2014 - New York: Springer.
    The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption of operational criteria designed within the particular perspective under which any single science considers reality. The "object" so attained has a proper ontological status, dependent on the specific character of the criteria of reference (...)
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  2. (1 other version)Temi e problemi di filosofia della fisica.Evandro Agazzi - 1969 - Milano,: C. Manfredi.
     
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  3. The Problem of Reductionism in Science.Evandro Agazzi - 1991
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    Systemic Thinking.Evandro Agazzi - 2019 - In Michael Robert Matthews (ed.), Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift. Springer. pp. 219-240.
    Modern natural science followed Galileo’s proposals regarding ontology, epistemology and methodology, limiting investigation to a few measurable properties of bodies by the adoption of the experimental method. Force appeared as a specialization of the traditional concept of efficient cause within the new science of Mechanics, which was soon able to incorporate practically all branches of physics. The concept of system had been introduced into scientific vocabulary in the seventeenth century and the limitations of the mechanistic approach in physics emerging by (...)
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  5. Scientific Realism Within Perspectivism and Perspectivism Within Scientific Realism.Evandro Agazzi - 2016 - Axiomathes 26 (4):349-365.
    Perspectivism is often understood as a conception according to which subjective conditions inevitably affect our knowledge and, therefore, we are never confronted with reality and facts but only with interpretations. Hence, subjectivism and anti-realism are usually associated with perspectivism. The thesis of this paper is that, especially in the case of the sciences, perspectivism can be better understood as an appreciation of the cognitive attitude that consists in considering reality only from a certain ‘point of view’, in a way that (...)
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    Some philosophical implications of Gödel's theorem.Evandro Agazzi - unknown
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    Philosophy of Science and Ethics.Evandro Agazzi - 2018 - Axiomathes 28 (6):587-602.
    The issue whether science can be correctly submitted to ethical judgment has been widely debated especially in the 1960s. Those who denied the legitimacy of such a judgment stressed that this would entail an undue limitation of the freedom of science; those who defended such a limitation laid stress on the great dangers that an uncontrolled growth of scientific knowledge has already produced and would continue to produce against humankind. This sterile debate can be settled by recognizing that scientific knowledge (...)
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    The Multiple Aspects of the Philosophy of Science.Evandro Agazzi - 2021 - Axiomathes 31 (6):677-693.
    Philosophy of Science, understood as a special philosophical discipline, was born only at the beginning of the twentieth century as part of the effort for overcoming the “foundational crisis” that had affected especially mathematics and physics. Therefore, it was conceived as an investigation about the features and reliability of scientific knowledge and for a few decades was deeply marked by the philosophical approach of logical empiricism. This cognitive point of view persisted also when, after Kuhn’s work, the attention focused on (...)
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    Advances in the Philosophy of Technology.Evandro Agazzi - 1998 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 4 (1):1-3.
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    (1 other version)Introduction.Evandro Agazzi - 2000 - Philosophica 66 (2).
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    Philosophie des images.Evandro Agazzi & Jean-Jacques Wunenburger - 1997 - Presses Universitaires de France - PUF.
    Regroupement d'articles et d'essais sous deux grands titres : le monde de la science et de la technique; la rencontre avec la dimension éthique. [SDM].
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    Varieties of Scientific Realism: Objectivity and Truth in Science.Evandro Agazzi (ed.) - 2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. Authoritative representatives of different philosophical traditions explain their perspectives on the meaning and validity of scientific realism and describe the strategies being adopted to counter persisting antirealist positions. The coverage extends beyond the usual discussion (...)
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    The rise of the foundational research in mathematics.Evandro Agazzi - 1974 - Synthese 27 (1-2):7 - 26.
  14. The Infinite between the Inexhaustible and the Negation.Evandro Agazzi - 2009 - Ontology Studies: Cuadernos de Ontología:21-30.
    Después de haber analizado las razones que indujeron a las antiguas matemáticas griegas y de que Aristóteles sólo admitiera una débil forma de lo infinito, se explora una ampliación de este concepto más allá de sus referencias numéricas y geométricas. El infinito puede expresar la “inagotable” riqueza ontológica de los atributos de las entidades individuales o, en otro sentido, el infinito puede ser entendido como aquello “ilimitado”. En este segundo sentido la “negación” se presenta como una fuerza positiva en la (...)
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    Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe.Evandro Agazzi & Alberto Cordero (eds.) - 1991 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    Modern cosmology, though a confluence of relativity theory and elementary particle physics, and with the help of very sophisticated mathematical models, tries to encompass the Universe as a whole, and to propose theories regarding its origin and evolution. But this cannot work without the evolution of several philosophical issues, concerning the epistemological status of this enterprise, its implicit or explicit extra-scientific presuppositions, as well as the real sense and interpretation of the theories and principles involved. This book provides a survey (...)
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    Realism and Quantum Physics.Evandro Agazzi - 1997 - Rodopi.
    Contents: Evandro AGAZZI: Introduction. Part One: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS. Paul HORWICH: Realism and Truth. Evandro AGAZZI: On the Criteria for Establishing the Ontological Status of Different Entities. Aristides BALTAS; Con-straints and Resistance: Stating a Case for Negative Realism. Michel PATY: Predicate of Existence and Predictability for a Theoretical Object in Physics. Part Two: OBSERVABILITY AND HIDDEN ENTITIES. François BONSACK: Atoms: Lessons of a History. Alberto CORDERO: Arguing for Hidden Realities. Bernard d'ESPAGNAT: On the Difficulties that Attributing Existence to «Hidden» Quantities May (...)
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    A systems-theoretic approach to the problem of the responsibility of science.Evandro Agazzi - 1987 - Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1-2):30-49.
    Man kann die wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit so betrachten, daß sie von einem "wissenschaftlichen System" ausgeführt wird, welches zugleich offen und adaptiv ist und dessen allgemeines Ziel darin besteht, objektives Wissen zu produzieren und zu verbreiten. WS nimmt aus seiner Umgebung Eingaben von "Nachfrage", "Unterstützung", "Ablehnung" entgegen und reagiert auf kreative Art und Weise darauf. Sein Funktionieren ist bedingt durch die Verträglichkeit seines Ziels mit denjenigen aller andern sozialen Subsysteme, die eine Maximierung der internen Variablen von WS ausschließen mögen, um das gesamte (...)
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  18. Commensurability, incommensurability, and cumulativity in scientific knowledge.Evandro Agazzi - 1985 - Erkenntnis 22 (1-3):51-77.
    Until the middle of the present century it was a commonly accepted opinion that theory change in science was the expression of cumulative progress consisting in the acquisition of new truths and the elimination of old errors. Logical empiricists developed this idea through a deductive model, saying that a theory T superseding a theory T must be able logically to explain whatever T explained and something more as well. Popper too shared this model, but stressed that T explains the old (...)
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    Ciencia y racionalidad para el futuro del ser humano.Evandro Agazzi - 1996 - Contrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 1.
    RESUMENLa idea del progreso de la humanidad se ha basado, en los últimos dos siglos, en el progreso científico-técnico. Por otra parte, se ha considerado a la ciencia como el paradigma de la racionalidad. Las consecuencias negativas producidas por el progreso científico-técnico están provocando un rechazo radical, en diversas capas sociales, de la ciencia y de la racionalidad; y la idea de progreso se ha invertido en la añoranza del pasado. Superando esta imagen neopositivista de la ciencia, el trabajo intenta (...)
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    La Tolérance en tant qu'Enjeu Éthique Fondamental de Notre Époque.Evandro Agazzi - 2000 - Philosophica 65 (1).
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    On the criteria for establishing the ontological status of different entities.Evandro Agazzi - 1997 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 55:40-73.
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    Valore E Limiti Del Senso Comune.Evandro Agazzi (ed.) - 2004 - Milano: Milan: Francoangeli.
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    Editorial Preface: Thought Experiments in Mathematics.Evandro Agazzi & Marco Buzzoni - 2023 - Global Philosophy 33 (1):1-5.
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  24. Intentionality and Artificial Intelligence.Evandro Agazzi - 1981 - Epistemologia 4:195.
  25. Representations and scientific realism.Evandro Agazzi - 2012 - Epistemologia 1:13-29.
    When it is spoken of scientific representations it is often understood that science can offer "only" representations but does not enable us to know reality. This tenet is the inheritance of a gratuitous and inconsistent presupposition that affected modern philosophy during almost two centuries, according to which we know our representations and not things, and we have to find warranties in order to believe that such representations correspond to reality. The present paper analyzes this presupposition, shows its inconsistency and, through (...)
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  26. Is Scientific Objectivity Possible Without Measurements?Evandro Agazzi - 1978 - Diogenes 26 (104):93-111.
    [First paragraph] According to a widely accepted opinion, the most typical characteristic and even the constitutive element of science is measurement, i.e., those processes of measuring upon which science is based. For a long time this has caused a general orientation of disciplines seeking to call themselves "science"; toward a certain form of quantification; in order to achieve the prestigious title of "science"; some form of measurement, of whatever kind, had to be introduced into the area of study.
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    Rethinking Philosophy of Science Today.Evandro Agazzi - 2012 - Journal of Philosophical Research 37 (9999):85-101.
    Modern philosophy of science was, initially, an epistemology of science based on the logical analysis of the language of science. It was superseded by a “sociological epistemology,” according to which the acceptance of scientific statements and theories depends on conditioningscoming from the social context and powers, and this view has fueled anti-scientific attitudes.This happened because the sociological turn still expressed an epistemology of science. Science, however, is not only a system of knowledge, but also a complex human activity. Hence, ethical, (...)
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    Aspekte der Unfehlbarkeit: kritische Untersuchungen und Interpretationen.Evandro Agazzi & Franz Theunis (eds.) - 1975 - Hamburg-Bergstedt: H. Reich.
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  29. Bioetica e Persona.Evandro Agazzi & Paola Cavalieri - 1994 - Bioethics 8 (4):350-351.
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    La motivazione nel contesto scolastico. Percorsi di ricerca e prospettive di intervento pedagogico nel territorio della Campania.Evandro Agazzi - 2014
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    Foreword DOI: 10.5007/1808-1711.2011v15n1p1.Evandro Agazzi, Ítala M. Loffredo D’Ottaviano & Daniele Mundice - 2011 - Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 15 (1):1-5.
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  32. Complexity and Emergence.Evandro Agazzi, Luisa Montecucco & M. Buzzoni - 2005 - Epistemologia 28 (2).
     
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    (1 other version)Can knowledge be acquired through contradiction?Evandro Agazzi - 1990 - Studies in East European Thought 39 (3-4):205-208.
  34. Ce que les mathématiques ont apporté à la philosophie contemporaine.Evandro Agazzi - 1981 - Epistemologia 4 (1):5.
     
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    Consistency, Truth and Ontology.Evandro Agazzi - 2011 - Studia Logica 97 (1):7-29.
    After a brief survey of the different meanings of consistency, the study is restricted to consistency understood as non-contradiction of sets of sentences. The philosophical reasons for this requirement are discussed, both in relation to the problem of sense and the problem of truth. The issue of mathematical truth is then addressed, and the different conceptions of it are put in relation with consistency. The formal treatment of consistency and truth in mathematical logic is then considered, with particular attention paid (...)
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  36. Dimensiones históricas de la ciencia y de su filosofía.(Trad. A. De Waele).Evandro Agazzi - forthcoming - Diogenes.
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    De la théorie électroélastique à la théorie électromagnétique du champ.Evandro Agazzi - 1975 - Dialectica 29 (2‐3):105-126.
    RésuméCe travail est consacréà l'examen critique de l'itinéraire qui conduit Maxwell, à partir de l'intuition des lignes de forces de Faraday, à sa conception du champ électromagnétique, à ses célèbres équations et enfin à la théorie électromagnétique de la lumière. L'auteur montre et discute la manière dont Maxwell, qui avait fondé sa théorie sur un modèle élastique, l'a convertie en une pure théorie du champ sans pour autant renier une philosophie naturelle de caractère mécaniste.
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  38. Epistemology and the social.Evandro Agazzi, Javier Echeverría & Amparo Gómez Rodríguez - 2008 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 96 (1):7-16.
    These are some of the topics discussed in this book, both theoretically and with reference to concrete cases.
     
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  39. Epistemology and the social: A feedback loop.Evandro Agazzi - 2008 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 96 (1):19-31.
    A sociological study of science is not very recent and has never been seen as particularly problematic since science, and especially modern science, constitutes an impressive and extremely ramified "social system" of activities, institutions, relations and interferences with other social systems. Less favourable, however, has been the consideration of a more recent trend in the philosophy of science known as the "sociological" philosophy of science, whose most debatable point consists in directly challenging the traditional epistemology of science and, in particular, (...)
     
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    Epistemology and the Social.Evandro Agazzi, Javier Echeverría & Amparo Gómez Rodríguez - 2008 - Rodopi.
    Epistemology had to come to terms with “the social” on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the “social” sciences, and in this case the already well established epistemology of the natural sciences seemed to have the right to dictate the conditions for a discipline to be a science. But the social sciences could successfully vindicate the legitimacy of their specific criteria for scientificity. More recently, the impact of social factors on the (...)
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    Eine Deutung der wissenschaftlichen Objektivität.Evandro Agazzi - 1978 - Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 3 (3):20-47.
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    El estatuto epistemológico de la bioética.Evandro Agazzi - 2019 - Arbor 195 (792):500.
    La bioética no se presenta como una ciencia bien delimitada, sino más bien como un ámbito de cuestiones y problemas que se ha ido ampliando a partir de los años 70. En los inicios, la bioética abarcaba esencialmente la medicina y las biotecnologías, hoy incluye otros aspectos como el cuidado de los animales y la protección del medio ambiente, y muchos de sus temas conciernen a las políticas de salud y a la propuesta de normas legales. La novedad de la (...)
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  43. Epistemologia: La filosofia della scienza in italia nel '900'.Evandro Agazzi - 1988 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39 (3):415-419.
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    El papel de las disciplinas científicas de la educación.Evandro Agazzi - 2001 - Endoxa 1 (14):307.
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  45. Entretiens Sur Philosophie Et Histoire Actes du Congrès de Santa Margherita Ligure Et Gênes.Evandro Agazzi - 1990 - Accademia Ligure di Scienze E Lettere.
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    Etica y manipulación genética.Evandro Agazzi - 2000 - [Argentina]: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
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  47. Freedom and Responsibility of Science.Evandro Agazzi - 1983 - Epistemologia 6:5.
  48. Filosofia della natura. Scienza e cosmologia.Evandro Agazzi & M. Marsonet - 1997 - Epistemologia 20 (1):181-185.
     
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    Filozofia przyrody.Evandro Agazzi - 2000 - Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 26.
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    Filosofia, Scienza E Verità.Evandro Agazzi, Fabio Minazzi & Ludovico Geymonat - 1989 - Milano: Rusconi. Edited by Fabio Minazzi & Ludovico Geymonat.
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