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Jagdish N. Hattiangadi
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
York Universitey
Research Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, History of Ideas, Metaphysics, Epistemology.
Education:
BA Honours, 1962 (University of Bombay).
MA, 1965 (University of London).
Ph.D., 1970 (Princeton).
Room number: S437
Phone: 77524
email address: jagdish@yorku.ca
Selected Bibliography
MA Thesis: Truth, Acceptance and Agreement: A critical review of Thomas Kuhn's, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Dissertation: Notes on the Theory of Rationality. Reason versus faith in modern philosophy of science; incommensurability of theories
The Natural Selection of Moral Conduct
Pub-year:2005
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Ethics;Philosophy of Biology;;
Location:A talk to the Department of Philosphy, York University, 2005, (also to be delivered to the Brown Bag Seminar, Atkisnon College, York University, February 2006.)
The Mind as An Object of Study in Science
Pub-year:2005
Type:Book Section
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;Philosophy of Biology;;
Location:The Mind As a Scientific Object, ed. David Johnson and Christina Erneling, Oxford University Press, 2005.
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The Emergence of Minds in Space and Time
Pub-year:2005
Type:Book Section
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:The Mind As a Scientific Object, ed. David Johnson and Christina Erneling, Oxford University Press, 2005.
A Rational and Liberal Ethics
Pub-year:2004
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Ethics;;;
Location:A talk to annual meetings of the Undergraduate Philosophy Association, York University, 2004
Modern Philosophy: Its source and prospects
Pub-year:2003
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:History of Ideas;Epistemology;;
Location:Conference in honor of Ian Jarvie, on his retirement, The Republic of Science,” York University, December 2003.
Kuhn Debunked
Pub-year:2003
Type:Journal
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Social Epistemology
Quantum mechanics and emergence
Pub-year:2002
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;Philosophy of Science;Philosophy of Biology;
Location:International Conference on the anniversary of the birth of Sir Karl Popper, Popper and Beyond, Kolkatta, India, December, 2002.
On Rules and Practice
Pub-year:2002
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Language;Philosophy of Mathematics;;
Location:Social Epistemology
On Two Concepts of Tolerance
Pub-year:2001
Type:Book Section
Category:Political Philosophy;Epistemology;Social philosophy;
Location:The Worst Enemy of Science? The Life and Thought of Paul Feyerabend, ed. John Preston, David Lamb and Gonzalo Mun?var, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Meditations on Substance in Aristotle Descartes and Bohr
Pub-year:2001
Type:Book Section
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Science;Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;
Location:Aristotle and Contemporary Science, Volume I, ed. Hilary Putnam and Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, Peter Lang: New York, 2001.
Aristotle and Contemporary Science, Vol. II
Pub-year:2001
Type:Book Whole
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;;
Location:Aristotle and Contemporary Science, Vol. II; Peter Lang Publishing, 2001.
ISBN-10: 0820441473
The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics, and the Thesis Concerning The Open Universe
Pub-year:2000
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;;
Location:Invited Presentation at HOPOS 2000, Vienna, Austria,
Qualia
Pub-year:2000
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;;;
Location:Invited Presentation, Symposium on Natural Philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association, Edmonton, May 2000.
Pac-Man Modern Philosophy
Pub-year:2000
Type:Journal
Category:Epistemology;Social philosophy;Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Algebra As Thought Experiment
Pub-year:1999
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Mathematics;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Paideia, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Logic Philosophy of Science, at www.bu.edu/wcp., 1999 (8 pp.)
The Chordate Mind and Its Adaptive Radiation
Pub-year:1998
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;Philosophy of Biology;;
Location:Biology Department, York University, 1998.
On The Interpretation of the Equations of Quantum Mechanics
Pub-year:1998
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:the International Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 1998
On Interacting Systems of Space: Or Coefficient Fields
Pub-year:1998
Type:Book Section
Category:Philosophy of Science;Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;;
Location:Causality and Locality in Modern Physics and Astronomy ed.J.-P. Vigier, G. Hunter and S. Jeffers, Kluwer, Dorecht, 1998.
ISBN 0792352270
The First Dogma of Logical Negativism
Pub-year:1997
Type:Journal
Category:Syntax, semantics and pragmatics;Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;
Location:Argumentation
ISSN 0920-427x
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Reductionism in the Theory of Mind
Pub-year:1997
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Mind;;;
Location:Mind as a Scienitific Object, International Conference at York University, May, 1997
Interacting Systems of Space
Pub-year:1997
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Metaphysics;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Causality and Locality in Modern Physics and Astronomy, A Conference in honour of J.-P. Vigier, York University August, 1997
Aristotle's Theory of Substance in the Light of Modern Physics
Pub-year:1997
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Aristotle and Contemporary Science, An International Conference at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, commemorating Thessaloniki as the culture capital of Europe, September 1997 at Thessaloniki, Greece.
The Advent and Maintenance of Sexual Reproduction
Pub-year:1996
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:University of Toronto, 1996.
Philosophy of Biology in the Nineteenth Century
Pub-year:1994
Type:Book Section
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Science;Philosophy of Biology;
Location:Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume VII, The Nineteenth Century, ed. C. L. Ten, Routledge, London, 1994.
ISBN 0425060036
The Logic of Net Difference
Pub-year:1993
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Proceedings of the 18th International congress in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1993.
The Lakatos-Ziv Hypothesis
Pub-year:1993
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Language;;;
Location:Quine Circle, York University, 1993
Routine Foundations for Mathematics
Pub-year:1993
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;;
Location:Proceedings of the 18th International congress in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1993.
On Consensus and Stability in Science
Pub-year:1993
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;Social philosophy;;
Location:British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1993 (with B. Baigrie)
ISSN 0007-0882
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The First World War and 1991
Pub-year:1991
Type:Book Section
Category:Political Philosophy;History of Ideas;;
Location:Critical Rationalism: Essays for Joseph Agassi, vol. 2: The Social Sciences and the Humanities, ed. I. C. Jarvie and N. Laor, Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holand, 1994.
ISBN 0792329619
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Notes Concerning the Poincar?an Approach
Pub-year:1991
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Biology;Philosophy of Science;Philosophy of Mathematics;
Location:Journal of Social and Biological Structures,
ISSN 0140-1750
How Can We Be Immoral?
Pub-year:1990
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Ethics;;;
Location:Conference in Umea, Sweden, 1990
The Physiological Foundations of Our Knowledge of the Mathematical Universe
Pub-year:1989
Type:Book Section
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Perspectives on Psychologism, ed. M. Notturno, Brill, 1989.
ISBN 9004091823
The Physical Manifestation of Empirical Knowledge
Pub-year:1989
Type:Book Section
Category:Epistemology;Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;;
Location:Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology, ed. C. Hooker and K. Hahlweg, SUNY Press, 1989.
ISBN 0791400123 / 07914131 (pbk)
Mertz On Parole
Pub-year:1989
Type:Journal
Category:;;;
Location:Social Epistemology
ISSN 0269-1728
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Kuhn Studies
Pub-year:1989
Type:Book Section
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;;
Location:Freedom and Rationality,, ed. Ian Jarvie and Fred D’Agostino, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series, Kluwer, 1989)
ISBN 0792302648
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Basic Quine for Social Scientists
Pub-year:1989
Type:Journal
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISSN 0048-3931
Kripke on Rules and their Interpretation
Pub-year:1988
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Language;;;
Location:International Colloquium on Language and Learning, 1988
The Scientist as A Skilful Technician
Pub-year:1987
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Learned Societies Meetings at McMaster University, June 1987
Rationality and the Problem of Scientific Traditions
Pub-year:1987
Type:Book Section
Category:Philosophy of Science;Political Philosophy;;
Location:York University, Toronto
ISBN 9024732751 / 902473455x (pbk)
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On the Physical Manifestation of Empirical Knowledge
Pub-year:1987
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Epistemology;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:International Conference on Evolutionary Epistemology, University of New Castle, New South Wales, Australia, July 1987
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How is Language Possible? An essay in the evolution of expressive capability in language from a biological perspective
Pub-year:1987
Type:Book Whole
Category:Philosophy of Language;;;
Location:How is Language Possible? An essay in the evolution of expressive capability in language from a biological perspective. Open Court, LaSalle, Illinois
ISBN 0812690443
Communal Disharmony in India
Pub-year:1987
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Social philosophy;Political Philosophy;;
Location:York-India Symposium, September 1987
The Realism of Popper and Russell
Pub-year:1986
Type:Journal
Category:Epistemology;Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;;
Location:Philosophy of the e Social Sciences
ISSN 0048-3931
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Why is the World Intelligible?  Or A Biological Analysis of a Philosophical Problem
Pub-year:1985
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;Philosophy of Biology;
Location:U of Toronto, April 22, 1985. 
Novelty, Creation and Society
Pub-year:1985
Type:Journal
Category:Epistemology;Social philosophy;Philosophy of Rationality;
Location:Interchange
ISSN 0020-5230
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Originality and Novelty
Pub-year:1984
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Rationality;;;
Location:Conference on Creativity, O.I.S.E., November 1984
Knowing That, and How: A New Empiricism
Pub-year:1984
Type:Journal
Category:Epistemology;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Methodology and Science
ISSN 0543-6095
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Essence versus Evolution in Language
Pub-year:1984
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Language;Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;
Location:Word, 1984. (with N. Ziv; I am the main contributor)
ISSN 0043-7956
"Language", "Thought", "Morality".  Three lectures on the subject of "The Relatively Absolute Absolutes of Ethics, and the Autonomy of Man"
Pub-year:1984
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Ethics;;;
Location:Conference on Biology, Economics and Ethics, Centre for Public Choice, G. Mason University, 1984
To Save Fallibilism
Pub-year:1983
Type:Journal
Category:Epistemology;Philosophy of Science;;
Location:Mind
ISSN 0026-4423
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A Methodology without Methodological Rules
Pub-year:1983
Type:Book Section
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Language, Logic and Method ed. R. Cohen and M. Wartowsky (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series, Reidel 1983)
ISBN 9027707251
The Philosophy of Language from a Fallibilist's Perspective
Pub-year:1982
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;Philosophy of Language;;
Location:Chairman's remarks at a Session on The Nature of Language and the Open Society, at the first convocation of the Open Society and Its Friends, New York, Nov. 24 1982
Methodology for the Political Scientist
Pub-year:1982
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;Political Philosophy;;
Location:American Political Science Association Meetings, Denver, Colorado, Oct. 1982
Bartley's Defence of Reason
Pub-year:1982
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Rationality;Epistemology;;
Location:Proceedings, XIth International Committee of the Unity of the Sciences, Nov. 28 1982.
Laudan's Progress
Pub-year:1981
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;;
Location:Metaphilosophy, 1981, (with B. Baigrie ; equal contributors). "Newton, Kepler and the Deductive Theory of Explanation", Sonderduck aus Wittgenstein, 1980.  ISSN 0026-1068
ISSN 0026-1068
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India in a State of Crisis
Pub-year:1981
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Social philosophy;Philosophy of Rationality;;
Location:Address to the JANATA, the all Indian Socialists, August, 1981, Bombay, India.
The Vanishing Context of Discovery
Pub-year:1980
Type:Book Section
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;;
Location:Scientific Discovery ed. T. Nickles (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series, Reidel, 1980).
ISBN 9027710929 / 9027710937 (pbk)
Review of George F. Kneller: "Science as a Human Endeavour"
Pub-year:1980
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:International Studies in Philosophy
ISSN 0270-5664
On Relevance in Science
Pub-year:1980
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;;
Location:Zetetic Scholar
Newton, Kepler and the Deductive Theory of Explanation
Pub-year:1980
Type:
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;;
Location:Sonderduck aus Wittgenstein
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The Structure of Problems (part II)
Pub-year:1979
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Meaning, Reference and Subjunctive Conditional
Pub-year:1979
Type:Journal
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Language;;
Location:American Philosophical Quarterly
ISSN 0003-0481
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The Structure of Problems (part I)
Pub-year:1978
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISSN 0048-3931
Russell's Early Philosophy
Pub-year:1978
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:History of Ideas;;;
Location:Learned Societies Conference 1978
Language Philosophy: Hacking, Foucault
Pub-year:1978
Type:Journal
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Language;;
Location:Dialogue
ISSN 0715-7037
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The Crisis in Methodology: Paul Feyerabend
Pub-year:1977
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;Social philosophy;;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISSN 0048-3931
Questions versus Contradictions as Foci of Research
Pub-year:1977
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Learned Societies Conference May 1977, Fredricton, New Brunswick
Problems and the Formation of Intellectual Traditions
Pub-year:1977
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:International Workshop on History and Philosophy of Science, Ben Miller, Ont., May 1977
Play Philosopher
Pub-year:1977
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISSN 0048-3931
The Population Explosion and its Roots in Philosophy
Pub-year:1976
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Address to the Family Planning Centre, India, K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay, India, January 1976
Rationality and Historical Relativism
Pub-year:1976
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Rationality;Social philosophy;Epistemology;
Location:Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Philosophy (D?sseldorf 1976).
Why is Indian Philosophy Mystical?
Pub-year:1975
Type:Journal
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Rationality;;
Location:Journal of Indian Philosophy
ISSN 0022-1791
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Three Contemporary Problems of Methodology
Pub-year:1975
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Institute for the Philosophy of Science, Banff, Alberta, June 1975
The Problem of Historical Explanation as a Pseudo-Problem
Pub-year:1975
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:History of Ideas;Philosophy of Rationality;;
Location:Learned Societies Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, 1975.  Also at OASIS 1973 with commentary by P.H. Nowell-Smith and F. Cunningham.
Problems: Scientific or Philosophical?
Pub-year:1975
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Inaugural Address to the Bombay Philosophical Association, July 1975, Bombay, India.
After Verisimilitude
Pub-year:1975
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;Epistemology;;
Location:Proceedings of the Vth International Congress in Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science (London 1975). 
The Importance of Auxiliary Hypotheses
Pub-year:1974
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;Syntax, semantics and pragmatics;History of Ideas;
Location:Ratio
ISSN 0034-0006
Science and Social Revolutions
Pub-year:1974
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Conference held at Lakehead University, 1974
Evolution and Language
Pub-year:1974
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Language;Philosophy of Biology;Philosophy of Science;
Location:Learned Societies Meetings 1974, Toronto, Ontario.
Die Wichtigkeit der Hilfshypothesen
Pub-year:1974
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;Syntax, semantics and pragmatics;History of Ideas;
Location:Ratio
ISSN 0034-0006
Review of G. Radnitzky: "Contemporary Schools of Meta Science"
Pub-year:1973
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:CLIO
Mind and the Origin of Language
Pub-year:1973
Type:Journal
Category:Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind;Philosophy of Language;;
Location:Philosophical Forum
ISSN 0031-823x
Review of R. Harr?: "The Principles of Scientific Thinking"
Pub-year:1972
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;;;
Location:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
The Logic of Problems in the Empirical Sciences
Pub-year:1971
Type:Conference Proceedings
Category:Philosophy of Science;Syntax, semantics and pragmatics;;
Location:Proceedings of the IVth International Congress in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, (Bucharest 1971).
Alternatives and Incommensurables: The Case of Darwin and Kelvin
Pub-year:1971
Type:Journal
Category:Philosophy of Science;History of Ideas;Epistemology;
Location:Philosophy of Science, 38 (December 1971) pp. 502
10.1086/288392 ISSN 0031-8248
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