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  1. Bunkum, Flim‐Flam and Quackery: Pseudoscience as a Philosophical Problem.Andrew Lugg - 1987 - Dialectica 41 (3):221-230.
    In the first half of the paper, it is argued that while the prospects for a criterion for demarcating scientific theories from pseudoscientific ones are exceedingly dim, it is a mistake to fall back to the position that these differ only with regard to how well they are confirmed. One may admit that different pseudoscientific theories are flawed in different ways yet still insist that their flaws are structural rather than empirical in character. In the second half of the paper, (...)
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  2. Overdetermined problems in science.Andrew Lugg - 1978 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 9 (1):1-18.
    The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a pattern of development, the significance of which has not been generally recognized. This pattern is characterized by an initial occurrence of what I shall call an overdetermined problem - i.e. a problem with no solution compatible with accepted belief and practice - followed by a resolution of the problem which relies on and exploits a change in what was previously taken as given.
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    Russell and Wittgenstein on Incongruent Counterparts and Incompatible Colours.Andrew Lugg - 2015 - Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 35 (1):43-58.
    Abstract:Russell (in Principles of Mathematics) and Wittgenstein (in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) largely agree on the twin questions of why pairs of congruent objects cannot always be made to coincide and why surfaces can never be uniformly two colours at once. Both philosophers take space and colour to be mathematically representable, construe the relevant impossibilities as mathematical and hold that mathematical impossibility is at root logical. It is not by chance that Russell says nothing about the phenomena in his Introduction to the (...)
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  4. Meaning through Pictures: Péter Forgács and Ludwig Wittgenstein.Andrew Lugg & Bela Szabados - 2011 - In Béla Szabados & Christina Stojanova (eds.), Wittgenstein at the Movies: Cinematic Investigations. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books. pp. 91-120.
    Chapter in Wittgenstein at the Movies, an in-depth explorations of two experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács' Wittgenstein Tractatus.
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  5. Wittgenstein on colour exclusion : not fatally mistaken.Andrew Lugg - 1986 - In Abraham Zvie Bar-On (ed.), Grazer Philosophische Studien. Distributed in the U.S.A. By Humanities Press. pp. 1-21.
    The problem of colour exclusion is not fatal to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy, nor was it the catalyst for his later philosophy. The remarks in the Tractatus about the impossibility of the simultaneous occurrence of two colours at a point in the visual field sit comfortably with the remarks in the rest of the book, the discussion of mathematical physics above all. Furthermore Wittgenstein’s second thoughts about the impossibility were a consequence, not the cause, of the subsequent turn in his (...)
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  6. When and why was Remarks on Colour written – and why is it important to know?Andrew Lugg - 2014 - In Frederik Gierlinger & Štefan Joško Riegelnik (eds.), Wittgenstein on Colour. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 1-20.
    A study of the origins of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour detailing when and why it was written.
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  7. (1 other version)The Limits of Scientific Reasoning. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):137-138.
    Review of David Faust, The Limits of Scientific Reasoning.
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  8. Wittgenstein and Politics.Andrew Lugg - 2004 - International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1):61-79.
    There is nothing in Wittgenstein's philosophical writings remotely approaching an unambiguous expression of right-wing or left-wing sentiments. The words "politics" and "political" do not figure in his work and politicians are referred to only in passing. All that can reasonably be argued is that his philosophy has indirect implications for how we should collectively live our lives, approach political problems or think about political theory. In this paper I critically examine claims that have been made regarding the significance of his (...)
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  9. More on Russell and Quine - A Reply to Stevens.Andrew Lugg - 2006 - The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly 130 (May):31-37.
    A response to Graham Stevens’s response to Lugg, ‘Russell as a Precursor of Quine’ (Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, nos. 128-129, pp. 9-21). Stevens challenges the argument of this paper that from 1912, if not earlier, Russell was “a naturalistically-minded epistemologist in the Quinean mould”. He maintains that to the contrary “Russell cannot be accurately characterized as an empiricist” and “Russell’s greatest influence on Quine’s naturalistic project did not stem from his epistemology but from his semantics”. In the present note it (...)
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  10. An alternative to the traditional model? Laudan on disagreement and consensus in science.Andrew Lugg - 1986 - Philosophy of Science 53 (3):419-424.
    Criticism of Larry Laudan's views on disagreement and progress in science.
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  11. Russell as a Precursor of Quine.Andrew Lugg - 2005 - The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly 128 (November):9-22.
    On Russell's and Quine's "naturalism".
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  12. (1 other version)Tom Sorell on Scientism.Andrew Lugg & J. F. McDonald - 1993 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 23 (2):291-298.
    Critical notice of Tom Sorell's Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science.
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  13. (1 other version)Wesley C. Salmon, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation Reviewed by.Andrew Lugg - 1991 - Philosophy in Review 11 (1):68-69.
    Review of Wesley Salmon's Four Decades of Scientific Explanation.
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  14. Kuhn and the Philosophy of Science: Theories of Science.Andrew Lugg - 1979 - British Journal for the History of Science 12 (3):289-295.
    Discussion of centred on Kuhn's Essential Tension.
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  15. Overinterpreting Wittgenstein.Andrew Lugg - 2010 - Wittgenstein-Studien 1 (1):171-190.
    Although Wittgenstein maintains that there are no theses in philosophy, he is regularly interpreted as advancing or committed to such theses. In this paper I consider a striking case in point, Merrill Ring’s discussion of §19(b), §20(a) and §20(b) of the Philosophical Investigations. I compare Ring's account of the text with Wittgenstein's actual words and stress the importance of refraining from taking Wittgenstein to be engaged in an explanatory or theoretical enterprise.
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  16. Nicholas Maxwell's Intellectual Revolution.Andrew Lugg - 1987 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 17 (3):435-437.
    Grumpy short discussion of Nicholas Maxwell's From Knowledge to Wisdom.
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  17. (1 other version)'The priority of paradigms' revisited.Andrew Lugg - 1987 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1-2):175-182.
    In diesem Beitrag liefere ich eine Interpretation und Verteidigung der These Thomas Kuhns von der Priorität von Paradigmen. Ich behaupte, daß Kuhns Argument für diese These wichtiger, als gewöhnlich angenommen wird, ist, und zwar sowohl für die Klärung seiner Ideen als auch für die Wissenschaftstheorie im allgemeinen. Anerkennt man seine Kritik an der üblichen Auffassung, daß Regeln den Paradigmen vorausgehen, so erscheint vieles von dem, was er über andere Gegenstände sagt, in einem neuen Licht, und viele Schwierigkeiten, die Philosophen bei (...)
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  18. Explaining scientific beliefs: The rationalist's strategy re-examined.Andrew Lugg - 1983 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (3):265-278.
    Analysis of how intellectual historians and sociologists of science differ.
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  19. (1 other version)Garfinkel on Forms of Explanation.Andrew Lugg - 1983 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (4):633-646.
    Critical Notice of Alan Garfinkel's Forms of Explanation.
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  20. Images of Science.Howard Duncan & Andrew Lugg - 1988 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (4):795-804.
    Critical notice of Images of Science by P. M. Churchland and C. A. Hooker.
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  21. Putnam on reductionism.Andrew Lugg - 1974 - Cognition 3 (3):289-293.
    Putnam argues that reductionism, “the doctrine that the laws of such ‘higher level’ sciences as psychology and sociology are reducible to the laws of lower-level sciences - biology, chemistry, ultimately to the laws of elementary particle physics”, is wrong. In this note, I take issue with some of Putnam’s arguments.
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  22. What generativism is not: A reply to Brian Baigrie.Andrew Lugg - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (3):499-501.
    Brief response to Brian Baigrie's "The Justification of Kepler’s Ellipse" (1990).
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  23. Les pratiques pseudo-scientifiques.Andrew Lugg - 1983 - Dialogue 22 (2):239-251.
    There is no satisfactory way of distinguishing the parodies of science from the genuine thing. Philosophers tend to think science and pseudoscience differ in kind, but the fact is they differ mostly in degree.
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  24. G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker, Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (1985), xvi + 352 pp. $49.95 (cloth). [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1988 - Philosophy of Science 55 (3):486-487.
    Review of G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity, the second volume of their analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
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  25. Scientific Discovery: Case Studies. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1982 - Philosophy of Science 49 (1):138-140.
    Review of T. Nickles (ed), Scientific Discovery: Case Studies.
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  26. Review Symposium : Laudan and the Problem-Solving Approach to Scientific Progress and Rationality. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1979 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (4):466-474.
    Critical discussion of Larry Laudan's problem-solving approach to scientific progress and rationality as presented in his Progress and Its Problems.
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  27. (1 other version)Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (4):267-270.
    Review of BERTRAND RUSSELL: THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE, the first volume of Ray Monk's biography of Russell.
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  28. Bertrand Russell, My Philosophical Development. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17 (3):209-211.
    Review of a reissue of Russell's My Philosophical Development.
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  29. Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1995 - Philosophy in Review 15 (1):35-37.
    Review of the third edition of Paul Feyerabend's Against Method.
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  30. (1 other version)Raymond L. Wilder, Mathematics as a Cultural System Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1982 - Philosophy in Review 2 (1):37-39.
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  31. Michael Potter, Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (6):435.
    Review of Michael Potter's Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic.
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  32. Roger M. White, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Reader's Guide. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2008 - Philosophy in Review 28 (3):232-234.
    Review of Roger M. White, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Reader's Guide.
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  33. God and Philosophy. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2005 - Philosophy in Review 25 (5):355-356.
    Review of Antony Flew's God and Philosophy.
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  34. Brian McGuinness, ed. Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (1):50-52.
    Review of a collection of letters to and from Wittgenstein.
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  35. Popper and beyond. David Stove. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1983 - Philosophy of Science 50 (2):350-352.
    Review of David Stove's Popper and Beyond.
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  36. (1 other version)The Cambridge Companion to Quine (Review). [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2004 - Philosophy in Review 24 (5):325-328.
    Review of Roger Gibson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Quine.
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  37. Arthur C. Danto, Andy Warhol. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2010 - Philosophy in Review 30 (3):180-182.
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  38. (1 other version)Rush Rhees, Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There Like Our Life Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26 (2):123-125.
    Review of Rush Rhees's Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There Like Our Life.
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  39. The Nature and Future of Philosophy. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2011 - Philosophy in Review 31 (1):22-25.
    Critical review of Michael Dummett's The Nature and Future of Philosophy.
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  40. (1 other version)The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1976 - Philosophy of Science 43 (3):449-452.
    Review of M. Audi, The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
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  41. (1 other version)Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1991 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21 (1):109-120.
    Critical notice of Paul Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason. The basic difficulty with Feyerabend's argument is not that he goes too far in rejecting traditional philosophical views but that he does not go far enough. We should indeed dismiss philosophical attempts to forge a "direct line to heaven" and forswear introducing "caricatures" of the rationalist's conception of reason to accommodate the complexities of history. But we should also shun the temptation to regard tradition as a surrogate for reason and to elevate (...)
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  42. The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2012 - Philosophy in Review 32 (6):489-492.
    Review of Oskari Kuusela and Marie McGinn, eds. , The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein. Comments on some of the articles in this huge collection.
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  43. Wittgenstein after his Nachlass. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 2011 - Philosophy in Review 31 (2):156-159.
    Review of Nuno Venturinha, ed. , Wittgenstein after his Nachlass.
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  44. Les révolutions du savoir. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg & Donald McDonell - 1984 - Philosophiques 11 (1):203-205.
    Review of Serge Robert, Les révolutions du savoir, 1979.
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  45. Book Review: Scientific Discovery: Case Studies Thomas Nickles. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1982 - Philosophy of Science 49 (1):138-.
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    Changing Fortunes of the Method of Hypothesis. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1984 - Erkenntnis 21 (3):433 - 438.
    Review of L. Laudan, Science and Hypothesis. Treats Laudan on the history of methodology (and the history of epistemology) focusing on the method of hypothesis.
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  47. In the tradition. [REVIEW]Andrew Lugg - 1986 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16 (3):383-389.
    Comments on a collection of papers published in the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science presented between 1973 and 1980. The authors' arguments are held to be shaped in the main by positivist presuppositions and aims.
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