Nicholas Maxwell

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Maxwell is a British philosopher. Maxwell taught philosophy of science at University College London, where he is now Emeritus Reader. In 2003 he founded Friends of Wisdom. He has published fifteen books. He has published over eighty papers in scientific and philosophical journals on problems that range from consciousness, free will, value, and art to the rationality of science, simplicity, scientific realism, explanation, time and quantum theory.

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From Knowledge to Wisdom: A Revolution in the Aims and Methods of Science (1987) (165)
On Relativity Theory and Openness of the Future (1991) (108)
Is science neurotic (2004) (86)
From Knowledge to Wisdom: A Revolution for Science and the Humanities (2007) (76)
What Kind of Inquiry Can Best Help Us Create a Good World? (1992) (72)
Are Probabilism and Special Relativity Compatible? (1985) (63)
A Critique of Popper's Views on Scientific Method (1972) (56)
Quantum Propensiton Theory: A Testable Resolution of the Wave/Particle Dilemma* (1988) (54)
Science, reason, knowledge, and wisdom: A critique of Specialism (1980) (53)
From Knowledge to Wisdom: The Need for an Academic Revolution (2007) (52)
Can there be Necessary Connections between Successive Events? (1968) (48)
The Rationality of Scientific Discovery Part I: The Traditional Rationality Problem (1974) (45)
Popper, kuhn, lakatos and aim-oriented empiricism (2005) (38)
A New Look at the Quantum Mechanical Problem of Measurement (1972) (38)
The Human World in the Physical Universe: Consciousness, Free Will, and Evolution (2001) (37)
Can Humanity Learn to become Civilized? The Crisis of Science without Civilization (2000) (37)
Instead of particles and fields: A micro realistic quantum “smearon” theory (1982) (34)
The Need for a Revolution in the Philosophy of Science (2002) (34)
Arguing for Wisdom in the University: An Intellectual Autobiography (2012) (34)
The Comprehensibility of the Universe (2003) (33)
Reviews-The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science (1999) (33)
From Knowledge to Wisdom (2013) (33)
The Metaphysics of Science: An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories (2009) (32)
Induction and Scientific Realism: Einstein Versus van Fraassen Part Three: Einstein, Aim-oriented Empiricism and the Discovery of Special and General Relativity* (1993) (32)
Cutting God in Half - And Putting the Pieces Together Again a New Approach to Philosophy (2010) (32)
How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World (2014) (30)
Are Probabilism and Special Relativity Incompatible? (1985) (30)
Particle creation as the quantum condition for probabilistic events to occur (1994) (28)
Is the quantum world composed of propensitons (2010) (26)
Induction and Scientific Realism: Einstein Versus van Fraassen Part One: How to Solve the Problem of Induction (1993) (23)
In Praise of Natural Philosophy: A Revolution for Thought and Life (2017) (22)
Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell (2009) (21)
A New Conception of Science (2000) (21)
Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment (2017) (21)
Popper's Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy (2004) (21)
The Rationality of Scientific Discovery Part II: An Aim Oriented Theory of Scientific Discovery (1974) (20)
Toward a micro realistic version of quantum mechanics. Part I (1976) (20)
Supersymmetric quantum mechanics, excited state energies and wave functions, and the Rayleigh-Ritz variational principle: a proof of principle study. (2009) (19)
PHYSICS AND COMMON SENSE* (1966) (19)
Are Universities Undergoing an Intellectual Revolution (2009) (18)
The Mind–Body Problem and Explanatory Dualism (2000) (17)
Does probabilism solve the great quantum mystery? (2004) (15)
Are Philosophers Responsible for Global Warming (2008) (15)
How Universities Have Betrayed Reason and Humanity—And What's to Be Done About It (2021) (15)
Do We Need a Scientific Revolution (2008) (15)
Wisdom in the university (2008) (14)
How Can Life of Value Best Flourish in the Real World (2009) (14)
The Problem of Measurement - Real or Imaginary? (1973) (14)
A priori conjectural knowledge in physics (2011) (14)
Science under attack (2005) (13)
Does orthodox quantum theory undermine, or support, scientific realism? (1993) (12)
How Can We Build a Better World (1991) (12)
Three philosophical problems about consciousness and their possible resolution (2011) (12)
Unification and Revolution: A Paradigm for Paradigms (2014) (11)
Two Great Problems of Learning (2003) (11)
Has Science Established that the Universe is Comprehensible (1999) (11)
Induction, simplicity and scientific progress (1979) (11)
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically Comprehensible (2012) (11)
Creating a better world: towards the university of wisdom (2011) (10)
How Universities Can Help Humanity Learn How to Resolve the Crises of Our Times - From Knowledge to Wisdom: The University College London Experience (2012) (10)
Beyond Fapp: Three Approaches to Improving Orthodox Quantum Theory and An Experimental Test (1993) (10)
Reply to Comments on Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom (2010) (10)
How Wisdom Can Help Solve Global Problems (2019) (10)
Philosophy Seminars for Five-year-olds (2007) (10)
What's Wrong With Science? Towards a People's Rational Science of Delight and Compassion (1976) (10)
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism: A Revolution for Science and Philosophy (2019) (9)
A Revolution for Science and the Humanities: From Knowledge to Wisdom (2005) (9)
The Urgent Need for Social Wisdom (2019) (9)
What’s Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism? (2015) (9)
Wisdom: Object of Study or Basic Aim of Inquiry? (2013) (9)
We Need an Academic Revolution (2011) (9)
Clash of Ideas (1971) (9)
Practical Certainty and Cosmological Conjectures (2005) (9)
We need progress in ideas about how to achieve progress (2018) (9)
Articulating the aims of science (1977) (8)
Alpha particle emission and the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics (1973) (8)
The Scandal of the Irrationality of Academia (2019) (8)
Our Fundamental Problem (2020) (7)
Universities: from knowledge to wisdom (2010) (7)
Can Scientific Method Help Us Create a Wiser World (2015) (7)
What's wrong with science? (2009) (7)
Part Two: Aim-oriented Empiricism and Scientific Essentialism (1993) (7)
Can The World Learn Wisdom (2015) (7)
Non-Empirical Requirements Scientific Theories Must Satisfy: Simplicity, Unification, Explanation, Beauty (2004) (7)
Towards a new enlightenment: what the task of creating civilization has to learn from the success of modern science (1994) (7)
Muller’s Critique of the Argument for Aim-Oriented Empiricism (2009) (7)
A New Task for Philosophy of Science (2019) (7)
Science and Enlightenment (2019) (6)
Methodological Problems of Neuroscience (1985) (6)
Can universities save us from disaster (2017) (6)
In Defense of Seeking Wisdom (2004) (6)
Wanted: a new way of thinking (1987) (6)
Do Philosophers Love Wisdom (2003) (6)
The Heisenberg-Weyl algebra on the circle and a related quantum mechanical model for hindered rotation. (2009) (6)
Toward a microrealistic version of quantum mechanics. Part II (1976) (6)
Does the minimal statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics resolve the measurement problem (1975) (6)
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution (2010) (5)
From knowledge to wisdom: Assessment and prospects after three decades (2013) (5)
Misconceptions Concerning Wisdom (2013) (5)
Special relativity, time, probabilism, and ultimate reality (2004) (5)
Are there Objective Values (1996) (5)
Must Science Make Cosmological Assumptions if it is to be Rational (1997) (5)
Could Inelastic Interactions Induce Quantum Probabilistic Transitions (2018) (5)
Our global problems and what we need to do about them (2012) (4)
The Menace of Science without Civilization: From Knowledge to Wisdom (2012) (4)
A mug's game? Solving the problem of induction with metaphysical presuppositions (2004) (4)
Two Great Problems of Learning: Science and Civilization (2016) (4)
5. The Scandal of the Irrationality of Academia (2019) (4)
The Disastrous War against Terrorism: Violence versus Enlightenment (2007) (4)
Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for a Random World (2003) (4)
Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented Empiricism (2017) (3)
The fate of the enlightenment: Reply to Kekes (1986) (3)
Wisdom and curiosity? I remember them well (2001) (3)
The key to the solution of the world crisis we face (2020) (3)
Replies and Reflections (2003) (3)
Taking the Nature of God Seriously (2013) (3)
Chapter 12: Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism and Ultimate Reality (2006) (3)
Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science (2019) (3)
The road to wisdom (2008) (3)
Science and the environment: A new enlightenment (1997) (3)
A Philosopher Struggles to Understand Quantum Theory: Particle Creation and Wavepacket Reduction (1995) (3)
The urgent need for an academic revolution - from knowledge to wisdom: keynote lecture (2010) (3)
What the task of creating civilization has to learn from the success of modern science: towards a new Enlightenment (1992) (3)
The enlightenment, Popper and Einstein (2005) (3)
Evolution of Sentience, Consciousness and Language Viewed from a Darwinian and Purposive Perspective (2000) (3)
Review - Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal (2010) (3)
Scientists should stop deceiving us (2010) (2)
Can Humanity Learn to Create a Better World? The Crisis of Science without Wisdom (2001) (2)
Cutting God in Half (2002) (2)
Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be (2014) (2)
Knowledge to Wisdom: We Need a Revolution (2006) (2)
Learning to Live a Life of Value (2006) (2)
A priori conjectural knowledge in physics: The comprehensibility of the universe (2005) (2)
Review of I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave (eds.) Problems in the Philosophy of Science (1969) (2)
Aim-oriented empiricism: David Miller's critique (2006) (2)
From Knowledge To Wisdom: Guiding Choices in Scientific Research (1984) (2)
Trout, J. D. (2016), Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science, New York: Oxford University Press, 264pp, ISBN 978-0199385072 (2017) (2)
Relativity Theory May not Have the Last Word on the Nature of Time: Quantum Theory and Probabilism (2017) (2)
EDITORIAL: Wisdom in the university (2007) (2)
Science, Knowledge, Wisdom and the Public Good (2003) (2)
Three Criticisms of Newton’s Inductive Argument in the Principia (2014) (2)
Weinert's Review of ‘The Comprehensibility of the Universe’ (2001) (1)
Art as its Own Interpretation (2003) (1)
Comprehensibility rather than beauty (2001) (1)
Karl Popper, science and enlightenment: an idea to help save the world (2018) (1)
1 The Enlightenment , Popper and Einstein Knowledge and Wisdom : Advances in Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Human Systems Management (2012) (1)
The problem of induction and metaphysical assumptions concerning the comprehensibility and knowability of the universe (2007) (1)
Does Philosophy Betray Both Reason and Humanity (2013) (1)
Digging up Dublin (1980) (1)
The urgent need for an academic revolution: the rational pursuit of wisdom (2009) (1)
How can our human world exist and best flourish embedded in the physical universe? An outline of a problem-based liberal studies course (2014) (1)
Wisdom-inquiry. One of the 50 best ideas of the 21st century. (2010) (1)
We Urgently Need an Academic Revolution (2010) (1)
Physics and common sense: A critique of physicalism (1965) (1)
How Humanity Might Avoid Devastation (2015) (1)
We Need to Recreate Natural Philosophy (2018) (1)
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing (2021) (1)
The Enlightenment Programme and Karl Popper (2006) (1)
What's Wrong with Science and Technology Studies? What Needs to Be Done to Put It Right? (2015) (1)
The New Enlightenment (2019) (1)
The Menace of Science without Wisdom (2012) (0)
Liberal education in crisis? Rejoinder by Maxwell (2014) (0)
What Philosophy Ought to Do (2015) (0)
Friends of wisdom (2000) (0)
The New Enlightenment and Academic Inquiry (2019) (0)
PART H: AN AIM ORIENTED THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (2016) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
Better lives: social insight isn’t enough (2020) (0)
Chapter 3 Aim-Oriented Empiricism: Exposition, and Implications for Science and the Philosophy of Science (2018) (0)
Science for civilization (1993) (0)
Do We Need an Academic Revolution to Create a Wiser World? Chapter 28 (2018) (0)
Evolution of Consciousness (1995) (0)
Liberal education in crisis (2014) (0)
Abstracts from the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1969) (0)
A new way of understanding the wave function (2018) (0)
The Crisis of Our Times and What to Do about It (2017) (0)
Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science (2019) (0)
Chapter 5 Broader Implications: Academic Inquiry for a Wiser World (2018) (0)
What Is to Be Done (2004) (0)
Science and meaning (2002) (0)
We need progress in ideas about how to achieve progress (2018) (0)
Arguing for Wisdom in the University: An Intellectual Autobiography (2012) (0)
Does the Scientific Community Misconstrue the Nature of Science (2021) (0)
Looking for ultimate explanations in the wrong place (2012) (0)
Experience All the Way Down: the Reinterpretation of Leibniz in James (2006) (0)
Three Philosophical Problems about Consciousness (2002) (0)
How to Think About Science (2008) (0)
Confronting Crisis: Bishops Respond to Sex Scandal (2004) (0)
The Generalized Darwinian Research Programme (1984) (0)
Enlightenment Can TheWorld LearnWisdom ? (2015) (0)
In Praise of Natural Philosophy: A Revolution for Thought and Life (2012) (0)
What’s Wrong with HPS and What Needs be Done to Put it Right? (2017) (0)
Zagrożenie nauką bez cywilizacji: od wiedzy do mądrości (Polish translation of "The Menace of Science without Civilization: From Knowledge to Wisdom" (2012)) (2011) (0)
Appendix: Refutation of Kripke on Rigid Designators and Essentialism (2018) (0)
Darwinian Theory Reinterpreted (2010) (0)
Can academic inquiry help humanity become civilized (1993) (0)
Dispositions, causes and propensities in science : Does probabilism solve the great quantum mystery? (2004) (0)
Implications for Social Inquiry (2004) (0)
What Philosophy Ought to Be (2014) (0)
Misunderstanding Understanding Scientific Progress (2018) (0)
Learning About the Universe and Learning How to Create Civilization (2019) (0)
Reply to Bidon-Chanal (1988) (0)
Chapter 1 Early Work on the Metaphysics of Science (2018) (0)
How Would Wisdom-Inquiry Help? (2019) (0)
Questions and Objections (2019) (0)
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Induction and Scientific Realism : Einstein versus van Fraassen Part One : How to Solve the Problem of Induction Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
Established that the Cosmos is Physically Comprehensible ? (0)
Observation, meaning and theory: Review of For and Against Method by Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend (2000) (0)
Review of R. J. Blackwell, discovery in the physical sciences (1971) (0)
Figure ESM2 from Social learning and the demise of costly cooperation in humans (2017) (0)
Unification and Revolution: A Paradigm for Paradigms (2013) (0)
Summary and Conclusion (2019) (0)
Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment NOW (2018) (0)
Is the Universe Comprehensible (1998) (0)
Science versus Realization of Value, not Determinism versus Choice: Response to “A Plain Person’s Free Will” by David Hodgson (2005) (0)
Looking for ultimate explanations in the wrong place (2011) (0)
A Revolution in Universities (2012) (0)
Mental blocks and the force of habit (1993) (0)
How Can Our Human World Exist and Best Flourish Embedded in the Physical Universe? A Letter to an Applicant to a New Liberal Studies Course (2014) (0)
Current Domination of Knowledge-Inquiry (2019) (0)
Evidence, Progress, and Discovery (2003) (0)
Chapter 2 Subsequent Work on Essentialism and the Mind-Body Problem (2018) (0)
Chapter 4 Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science: 2000 to 2017 (2018) (0)
Replies to criticisms and comments (2012) (0)
How to Create a Better World: Bring about a Revolution in Universities (2013) (0)
The Failings of Standard Empiricism (2003) (0)
An Idea to Save the World (2009) (0)
A Revolution for Science and the Humanities (2005) (0)
The Enlightenment and the Romantic Opposition (2019) (0)
Science and meaning: why physics can coexist with consciousness (2002) (0)
Implications for Natural Science (2004) (0)
Does Science Provide Us with the Methodological Key to Wisdom (2012) (0)
Book reviewPeirce's philosophy of science: Edited by Nicholas Rescher. Pp. iv + 125. University of Notre Dame Press, London. 1979. £2.80 (Paper) (1980) (0)
Theoretical choices (1986) (0)
Steven Pinker defends a damagingly irrational conception of reason (2022) (0)
Special Issue: Wisdom (2007) (0)

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