Alan Musgrave

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Alan Musgrave is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, University of New Zealand

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#1385

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#2127

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According to Wikipedia, Alan Musgrave is an English-born New Zealand philosopher. Biography Musgrave was educated at the London School of Economics with a BA Honours philosophy and economics 1961. Karl Popper supervised Musgrave's PhD which was completed in 1969. Musgrave worked as Popper's research assistant, initially then as a lecturer. Musgrave was appointed to the chair of the philosophy department at the University of Otago in 1970, and was head of department from 1970 to 2005. He was 30 years old at his appointment. Along with Imre Lakatos, a friend and colleague, they edited Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge . It is the best-selling of the 4 volumes that record the Popper/Kuhn confrontation at the 1965 London Conference that Lakatos and Musgrave organised. In 1992 Musgrave published Common Sense, Science and Scepticism, an entry level book on epistemology. In 1999 Musgrave published Essays on Realism and Rationalism , a collection of his scholarly papers. In 2006 Musgrave was honoured with a Festschrift: Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave, edited by Colin Cheyne and John Worrall . In 2009, Musgrave published Secular Sermons: Essays on Science and Philosophy , an entry level book on science, religion and mathematics.

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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (1972) (3509)
'Unreal Assumptions' in Economic Theory: The F-Twist Untwisted (1981) (265)
Logical versus Historical Theories of Confirmation (1974) (244)
The Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism (1988) (190)
problems in the philosophy of science (1970) (112)
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965, Vol. 4 (1970) (101)
Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century: Four Central Themes.Reading the Book of Nature: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.Common Sense, Science and Scepticism: a Historical Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (1993) (80)
Essays On Realism And Rationalism. (1999) (72)
KUHN'S SECOND THOUGHTS (1971) (67)
Noa’s Ark – Fine for Realism (1989) (64)
Method and appraisal in the physical sciences: Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston? Research programmes in the Chemical Revolution (1976) (52)
Method or Madness (1976) (44)
Realism about What? (1992) (38)
Evidential Support, Falsification, Heuristics, and Anarchism (1978) (33)
Popper and Hypothetico-deductivism (2011) (30)
Popper and the human sciences (1985) (24)
Realism, Truth and Objectivity (1996) (24)
Logicism Revisited* (1977) (21)
Falsification and its Critics (1973) (16)
Strict Empiricism Versus Explanation in Science (2017) (16)
Popper and ‘diminishing returns from repeated tests' (1975) (13)
Problems in the Philosophy of Science Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965 (1967) (13)
"Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge", I. Lakatos, A. Musgrave, Cambridge 1970 : [recenzja] / Irena Szumilewicz. (1971) (13)
How Popper [Might Have] Solved the Problem of Induction (2004) (13)
How To Do Without Inductive Logic (1999) (12)
The T-scheme plus epistemic truth equals idealism (1997) (9)
Saving Science from Scepticism (1989) (8)
Experience and Perceptual Belief (2009) (6)
Facts and Values in Science Studies (1983) (6)
Deductivism Surpassed: Or, Foxing in its Margins? (2012) (6)
The Myth of Astronomical Instrumentalism (1991) (5)
Constructive Empiricism Versus Scientific Realism (1982) (4)
Conceptual Idealism and Stove’s Gem (1999) (4)
Problems with progress (1979) (4)
Popper on Induction (1993) (4)
Explanation, Description and Scientific Realism=Spiegazione, descrizione e realismo scientifico (1977) (2)
Getting Over Gettier (2012) (2)
Realism and Idealisation (1995) (1)
Theory and Observation: Nola versus Popper (1983) (1)
Error and Inference: Revisiting Critical Rationalism (2009) (1)
BEWARE OF Mad DOG Realist (2018) (1)
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Preface (1970) (1)
Refereeing in 1992 (1995) (0)
Notices of Books (1961) (0)
CHEYNE'S PARADOX – AND HOW TO SOLVE IT (2012) (0)
Hans Albert and me (2018) (0)
Metaphysics and Realism (2016) (0)
Forthcoming in Analysis What can Bas believe? Musgrave and van Fraassen on observability PAUL DICKEN & PETER LIPTON (2006) (0)
Analytical Philosophy of History . By Arthur C. Danto. (Cambridge University Press, London, 1965, pp. xi + 318, 55s.) (1970) (0)
Deductivism Surpassed: Or, Foxing in its Margins? (2012) (0)
Falsifiability and probability: A comment (1972) (0)
Against Paraconsistentism (2020) (0)
Science as Successful Prediction (2006) (0)
Book Review (1998) (0)

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