David Stove Quotes

David Charles Stove , was an Australian philosopher. His work in philosophy of science included criticisms of David Hume's Inductive scepticism, as well as what he regarded as the irrationalism of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend. He offered a positive response to the problem of induction in his 1986 work, The Rationality of Induction. Stove was also a critic of Idealism and sociobiology, describing the latter as a new religion in which genes play the role of gods.

✵ 15. September 1927 – 2. June 1994

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David Stove Quotes

“A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.”

David Stove

The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Page 99, first paragraph.

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“If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.”

David Stove

The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Page 176, last paragraph.

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