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Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

By: Menachem Fisch

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Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

By: Menachem Fisch

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention to ambiguity and indecision in science, Menachem Fisch, in Creatively Undecided, offers a new way to look at how scientific understandings change. Following Kuhn, Fisch argues that scientific practice depends on the framework in which it is conducted, but he also shows that those frameworks can be understood as the possible outcomes of the rational deliberation that Popper viewed as central to theory change. How can a scientist subject her standards to rational appraisal if that very act requires the use of those standards? The way out, Fisch argues, is by looking at the incentives scientists have to create alternative frameworks in the first place. Fisch argues that while science can only be transformed from within, by people who have standing in the field, criticism from the outside is essential. We may not be able to be sufficiently self-critical on our own, but trusted criticism from outside, even if resisted, can begin to change our perspective—at which point transformative self-criticism becomes a real option.

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University of Chicago Press

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Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

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Pirke Avot

Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life

By: William Berkson,Menachem Fisch

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Pirke Avot

Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life

By: William Berkson,Menachem Fisch

In Pirke Avot: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life, William Berkson provides a fresh, insightful, and exciting approach to this central and compelling classical Jewish ethical text. He, with the assistance of Menachem Fisch, provides a clear and comprehensible translation of the tractate, and his historical commentary draws insightfully on the sources of Jewish tradition for its explication of its sayings. Most significantly, Berkson brings the ideas found in Avot into conversation with a wide variety of philosophical, psychological, and religious perspectives so that the reader can drink deeply from the wellsprings of wisdom that Avot offers for contemporary persons – Jews and non-Jews alike. This book is a most important contribution to Jewish conversation in our time! "-- Rabbi David Ellenson, President Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religon

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Jewish Publication Society

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082761120X

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9780827611207

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

By: Menachem Kellner

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Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

By: Menachem Kellner

Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the "moderns" (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the "ancients" (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics. In order to substantiate these claims, Kellner explores the related idea that Maimonides does not adopt the notion of "the decline of the generations," according to which each succeeding generation, or each succeeding epoch, is in some significant and religiously relevant sense inferior to preceding generations or epochs.

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State University of New York Press

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1438408676

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9781438408675

Maimonides the Universalist

The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah

By: Menachem Kellner,David Gillis

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The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah

By: Menachem Kellner,David Gillis

Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.

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Liverpool University Press

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1800347456

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Pirke Avot

Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life

By: William Berkson

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Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life

By: William Berkson

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U of Nebraska Press

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0827609175

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9780827609174

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