Critical Rationalism, the Social Sciences and the Humanities

Frontispiece; Portrait of Joseph Agassi; Nili Kook. Introduction (II); I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor. The Social Sciences and Humanities. Prometheus Perplexed; E. Gellner. Philosophical Method, Modified Essentialism and the Open Society; J. Shearmur. Reason and Myth in Politics; G. Weiler. The First World War and 1991; J. Hattiangadi. Pedagogy as Psychology: a View from Within; R. Sassower. All Forms of Racial Discrimination; M. Banton. Style vs. Substance in Economic Methodology; L.A. Boland. Preliminary Report on Efforts of Psychologism to gain Influences in Proper Epistemological, Methodological and Psychological Societies; J. Wettersten. Epistemological and Methodological Concerns of Feminist Social Scientists; J. Buber Agassi. Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) in Context -- a Study of Wisdom as Constructive Scepticism; M. Fisch. Commitment and Paradox; A. Hannay. The Place of the Sciences and of the Fine Arts in the Intellectual Scheme of Things; I.C. Jarvie. Two Commandments for the Humanities; W. Berkson. Bibiliography of Joseph Agassi to 1993. Indices.