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    The Philosophy of Science: Science and Objectivity.George Couvalis - 1997 - Sage Publications.
    This comprehensive textbook provides a clear nontechnical introduction to the philosophy of science. Through asking whether science can provide us with objective knowledge of the world, the book provides a thorough and accessible guide to the key thinkers and debates that define the field. George Couvalis surveys traditional themes around theory and observation, induction, probability, falsification and rationality as well as more recent challenges to objectivity including relativistic, feminist and sociological readings. This provides a helpful framework in which to locate (...)
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    Feyerabend's Critique of Foundationalism.George Couvalis - 1989 - Avebury.
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  3. Aristotle on Being.George Couvalis - 2015 - Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 1:41-50.
    Aristotle explains existence through postulating essences that are intrinsic and percep- tion independent. I argue that his theory is more plausible than Hume’s and Russell’s theories of existence. Russell modifies Hume’s theory because he wants to allow for the existence of mathematical objects. However, Russell’s theory facilitates a problematic collapse of ontology into epistemology, which has become a feature of much analytic philosophy. This collapse obscures the nature of truth. Aristotle is to be praised for starting with a clear account (...)
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  4. Hume's Lucianic Thanatotherapy.George Couvalis - 2013-14 - Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 16 (B):327-344.
    The eighteenth century philosopher David Hume was much influenced by Greek philosophy and literature. His favourite writer was the satirist Lucian. What is David Hume’s thanatotherapy (therapy of the fear of death)? Is he an Epicurean or Pyrrhonian thanatotherapist? I argue that, while he is in part an Epicurean who is sceptical about his Epicureanism, he is primarily a Lucianic thanatotherapist. A Lucianic thanatotherapist uses self and other deprecating irony as a form of therapy. He also ruthlessly satirises religious consolations. (...)
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  5. Plato on False Pains and Modern Cognitive Science.George Couvalis & Matthew Usher - 2003 - Philosophical Inquiry 25 (3-4):99-115.
  6. John Philoponus: Closeted Christian or Radical Intellectual?George Couvalis - 2011 - Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 15:207-219.
  7. Aristotle and Ockham on Being.George Couvalis - forthcoming - Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand).
    Aristotle and William of Ockham both argue that existence or being is a predicate, though not a distinguishing predicate. I place Ockham’s argument in an Aristotelian context and discuss its merits. I then turn to empiricist criticisms of the view that we can coherently predicate being of things. I argue that while Ockham’s argument is cogent, his account of how we come to have the concept of being is inadequate. Ockham’s view needs to be supplemented with Kantian insights.
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  8. Aristotle vs Theognis.George Couvalis - 2011 - In Michael Tsianikas (ed.), Greek Research in Australia. Department of Modern Greek. pp. 1-8.
    Aristotle argues that provided we have moderate luck, we can attain eudaimonia through our own effort. He claims that it is crucial to attaining eudaimonia that we aim at an overall target in our lives to which all our actions are directed. He also claims that the proper target of a eudaimon human life is virtuous activity, which is a result of effort not chance. He criticises Theognis for saying that the most pleasant thing is to chance on love, arguing (...)
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  9. A Modern Malignant Demon? Hume's Scepticism with Regard to Reason (Partly) Vindicated.George Couvalis - 2011 - In Craig Taylor & Stephen Buckle (eds.), Hume and the Enlightenment. Pickering & Chatto Publishing. pp. 105-115.
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    Feyerabend, the Ancient Quarrel and the Problem of Aesthetic Criteria.George Couvalis - 1994 - Philosophical Inquiry 16 (1-2):1-19.
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    Is induction epistemologically prior to deduction?George Couvalis - 2004 - Ratio 17 (1):28–44.
    Most philosophers hold that the use of our deductive powers confers an especially strong warrant on some of our mathematical and logical beliefs. By contrast, many of the same philosophers hold that it is a matter of serious debate whether any inductive inferences are cogent. That is, they hold that we might well have no warrant for inductively licensed beliefs, such as generalizations. I argue that we cannot know that we know logical and mathemati- cal truths unless we use induction. (...)
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    Recent feyerabendiana.George Couvalis - 2001 - Metascience 10 (1):39-49.
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    The science of being as being: metaphysics through Aristotle.George Couvalis - 2024 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    Beginning from Aristotle's view that metaphysics is the science of being as being, Couvalis brings together neglected and important arguments in a comprehensive, yet concise exploration of metaphysics. Other figures covered include Heraclitus, Protagoras, Aquinas, Ockham, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, and Russell.
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  14. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Greek Studies 2009.Marietta Rosetto, Michael Tsianikas, George Couvalis & Maria Palaktsoglou (eds.) - 2011 - Flinders University.
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    Radical fallibilism vs conceptual analysis: The significance of Feyerabend’s Philosophy of science. [REVIEW]George Couvalis, Gonzalo Munévar, Eric Oberheim & Paul Hoyningen-Huehne - 1999 - Metascience 8 (2):206-233.
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    (1 other version)Feyerabend and Scientific Values: Tightrope‐Walking Rationality. [REVIEW]George Couvalis - 2005 - Isis 96:312-313.
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