Ian Jarvie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Jarvie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarvie |
| SIGNATURE | JARVIE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University, Toronto, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid
The ongoing efforts to explain the disease COVID-19 and the parallel efforts to devise and implement public health measures that mitigate it, are an opportunity to reconsider the values of science as identified to Merton. What is revealed is that science is always partial and always tentative. This leaves much scope for magical thinking and for flat science denial
Popper and Agassi at Odds
Three main conflicts between Popper and Agassi are discussed. Over the ethics of hard work which in reality turns out to be over perfectionism and optimism. Over the role of metaphysics in science. Over methodological individualism where is it argued that Popper's views are contradictory and that Agassi' Institutionalism prevails
Institutions as a Philosophical Problem
The symposium on Francesco Guala’s Understanding Institutions was thought provoking. Five critical papers took issue with Guala’s reconciliation of the game-theoretical view of institutions and the rule-governed view. We offer some critical commentary that adopts a different perspective. We agree that institutions are central to social life and, thus, also to the social sciences; they are also prior to and more fundamental than individuals. We ad…
Response to Shankman
This response to Shankman’s 2018 concedes some points, corrects others, and emphasizes the importance of error to the progress of science
Art and Aesthetics
Art and aesthetics are found in all societies. Some art is concrete (paintings, sculptures, buildings, books), some is not (performances, musical works, poetry). Such social theories as classical economics, dialectical materialism, evolutionism, and functionalism all try to demystify art and aesthetics by reducing artistic value and the assessment of artistic value to their favored social models. Yet none of these is satisfactory. Artistic value …
Mead and the Trajectory of Anthropology in the United States
Peter Mandler's Return from the Natives examines Margaret Mead mid-career when she devoted much energy to promoting anthropology and anthropologists to government and industry and positioned herself as a prominent social commentator. By the time she returned to the field after an interlude of 14 years, something had happened to her professionally: she was treated as a bit of an embarrassment, no longer a scientific heavyweight, and much of this s…
Pornography Stumps Analytic Philosophers of Art
A book in which analytic philosophers examine the portrayal of sex in art and the possible artistic value of pornography proves a disappointment. Although a transcendental objection to pornographic art is rebutted, the papers employ barren philosophical methods that divert energy away from significant problems and into scholastic quibbles
Noble Savages, Ignoble Colleagues
Chagnon narrates the ups and downs of his career, how he managed to document the basic ethnography of the Yanomamö of Amazonia, and the loss of scientific compass in American anthropology that brought a good deal of personal villification and the end of his research. The reviewer endorses the view that organized American anthropology is in an intellectually sorry state but argues that Chagnon’s anthropology of anthropology is lacking
The Freeman-Mead Controversy Revisited
Shankman holds that Derek Freeman “trashed” Margaret Mead’s reputation as a public intellectual by portraying her as a naïve and gullible anthropologist who perpetrated a serious error about adolescence in American Samoa. Shankman concedes that Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa was factually in error but argues that her reputation in anthropology did not rest on it but rather on her extensive works on other societies. Ostensibly about Samoa, her book…
Introduction
The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences
Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms, Methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandeville to Mannheim - Joseph Agassi Continental Philosophies of the Social Sciences - David Teira The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20th Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitatstreit - Paul Roth PART TWO: CE…
Por uma sociologia crítica da ciência
Neste artigo crítico e construtivo, defendemos que a Sociologia da Ciência, como está estabelecida, é distorcida por uma suposta filosofia idealista que estimula uma atitude acrítica em relação ao que se supõe serem fatos. Propomos uma sociologia crítica da ciência que faz a distinção entre ciência, ciência aplicada e tecnologia; enfoca a falibilidade da ciência e da sociologia da ciência que desconstrói toda pretensão de autoridade. Construtivam…
Dissent about Descent
Pace Fuller, religion is neither necessary nor sufficient a condition for the development of evolutionary biology. Their historical connection notwithstanding, they are better considered as separate systems of ideas, in parallel to the manner in which they separated themselves as systems of institutions. As to schooling, enriched teaching of the real history of biology should be sufficient
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
The Cold War And The Movie Industry
Contributions to the Social and Economic History of British Cinema
Wittgenstein's poker
History on Television
(2001). History on Television. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 97-99
Is Analytic Philosophy the Cure for Film Theory
Deplorant l'absence d'une reflexion esthetique sur le cinema et denoncant l'amalgame des systeme theoriques (psychanalytique, marxiste, semiologique) appliques a la theorie du film, l'A. montre que la philosophie analytique ne tient pas ses promesses de clarte et de precision concernant l'interpretation des oeuvres cinematographiques, d'une part, et que les differentes positions developpees par C. A. Freeland («Philosophy and Film», 1995), R. All…
Image and Mind. Film, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (Book)
(1997). Image and Mind. Film, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (Book) Metaphor and Symbol: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 287-290
Name Index
Preliminary Material
Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: Preface. John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner. PART 1 INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND. Ji_i MUSIL: The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking. Chris HANN: Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe. Tamara DRAGADZE: Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East. PART 2 NATIONS AND NATIONALISM. Brendan O'LEARY: On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationa…
Sir Karl Popper (1902–94)
A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
I use an old observation (that religion is anthropomorphistic) to solve a problem almost as old (why do people have religious beliefs?) by arguing that religion is a special case of the more general phenomenon of anthropomorphism. This view suggests that religious belief, often thought nonempirical and cognitively anomalous, is as much based in experience as is nonreligious belief and that it consists in a plausible application of significant mod…
The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: Preface. John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner. PART 1 INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND. Ji_i MUSIL: The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking. Chris HANN: Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe. Tamara DRAGADZE: Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East. PART 2 NATIONS AND NATIONALISM. Brendan O'LEARY: On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationa…
The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences
Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms, Methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandeville to Mannheim - Joseph Agassi Continental Philosophies of the Social Sciences - David Teira The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20th Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitatstreit - Paul Roth PART TWO: CE…
Mead and the Trajectory of Anthropology in the United States
Peter Mandler's Return from the Natives examines Margaret Mead mid-career when she devoted much energy to promoting anthropology and anthropologists to government and industry and positioned herself as a prominent social commentator. By the time she returned to the field after an interlude of 14 years, something had happened to her professionally: she was treated as a bit of an embarrassment, no longer a scientific heavyweight, and much of this s…
Por uma sociologia crítica da ciência
Neste artigo crítico e construtivo, defendemos que a Sociologia da Ciência, como está estabelecida, é distorcida por uma suposta filosofia idealista que estimula uma atitude acrítica em relação ao que se supõe serem fatos. Propomos uma sociologia crítica da ciência que faz a distinção entre ciência, ciência aplicada e tecnologia; enfoca a falibilidade da ciência e da sociologia da ciência que desconstrói toda pretensão de autoridade. Construtivam…
Is Analytic Philosophy the Cure for Film Theory
Deplorant l'absence d'une reflexion esthetique sur le cinema et denoncant l'amalgame des systeme theoriques (psychanalytique, marxiste, semiologique) appliques a la theorie du film, l'A. montre que la philosophie analytique ne tient pas ses promesses de clarte et de precision concernant l'interpretation des oeuvres cinematographiques, d'une part, et que les differentes positions developpees par C. A. Freeland («Philosophy and Film», 1995), R. All…
Popper and Agassi at Odds
Three main conflicts between Popper and Agassi are discussed. Over the ethics of hard work which in reality turns out to be over perfectionism and optimism. Over the role of metaphysics in science. Over methodological individualism where is it argued that Popper's views are contradictory and that Agassi' Institutionalism prevails
Institutions as a Philosophical Problem
The symposium on Francesco Guala’s Understanding Institutions was thought provoking. Five critical papers took issue with Guala’s reconciliation of the game-theoretical view of institutions and the rule-governed view. We offer some critical commentary that adopts a different perspective. We agree that institutions are central to social life and, thus, also to the social sciences; they are also prior to and more fundamental than individuals. We ad…
The Freeman-Mead Controversy Revisited
Shankman holds that Derek Freeman “trashed” Margaret Mead’s reputation as a public intellectual by portraying her as a naïve and gullible anthropologist who perpetrated a serious error about adolescence in American Samoa. Shankman concedes that Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa was factually in error but argues that her reputation in anthropology did not rest on it but rather on her extensive works on other societies. Ostensibly about Samoa, her book…
John Grierson on Hollywood's success, 1927
Films
A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
I use an old observation (that religion is anthropomorphistic) to solve a problem almost as old (why do people have religious beliefs?) by arguing that religion is a special case of the more general phenomenon of anthropomorphism. This view suggests that religious belief, often thought nonempirical and cognitively anomalous, is as much based in experience as is nonreligious belief and that it consists in a plausible application of significant mod…
General/Theoretical
A Plague on Both Your Houses
British Trade Policy versus Hollywood, 1947–1948
The Burma Campaign on Film
(1988). The Burma Campaign on Film: ‘Objective Burma’ (1945), ‘The Stilwell Road’ (1945) and ‘Burma Victory’ (1945). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 55-73
John Grierson on Hollywood's success, 1927
The thirteenth manuscript
Hollywood's Overseas Campaign
Journal Article Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920–1950. By Ian Jarvie. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xviii, 473 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-41566-7.) Get access Ruth Vasey Ruth Vasey University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Page 1511, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Sir Karl Popper (1902–94)
Name Index
Preliminary Material
Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: Preface. John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner. PART 1 INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND. Ji_i MUSIL: The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking. Chris HANN: Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe. Tamara DRAGADZE: Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East. PART 2 NATIONS AND NATIONALISM. Brendan O'LEARY: On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationa…
Image and Mind. Film, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (Book)
(1997). Image and Mind. Film, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (Book) Metaphor and Symbol: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 287-290
Is Analytic Philosophy the Cure for Film Theory
Deplorant l'absence d'une reflexion esthetique sur le cinema et denoncant l'amalgame des systeme theoriques (psychanalytique, marxiste, semiologique) appliques a la theorie du film, l'A. montre que la philosophie analytique ne tient pas ses promesses de clarte et de precision concernant l'interpretation des oeuvres cinematographiques, d'une part, et que les differentes positions developpees par C. A. Freeland («Philosophy and Film», 1995), R. All…
History on Television
(2001). History on Television. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 97-99
Wittgenstein's poker
Contributions to the Social and Economic History of British Cinema
The Cold War And The Movie Industry
Dissent about Descent
Pace Fuller, religion is neither necessary nor sufficient a condition for the development of evolutionary biology. Their historical connection notwithstanding, they are better considered as separate systems of ideas, in parallel to the manner in which they separated themselves as systems of institutions. As to schooling, enriched teaching of the real history of biology should be sufficient
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
Introduction
The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences
Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms, Methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandeville to Mannheim - Joseph Agassi Continental Philosophies of the Social Sciences - David Teira The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20th Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitatstreit - Paul Roth PART TWO: CE…
Por uma sociologia crítica da ciência
Neste artigo crítico e construtivo, defendemos que a Sociologia da Ciência, como está estabelecida, é distorcida por uma suposta filosofia idealista que estimula uma atitude acrítica em relação ao que se supõe serem fatos. Propomos uma sociologia crítica da ciência que faz a distinção entre ciência, ciência aplicada e tecnologia; enfoca a falibilidade da ciência e da sociologia da ciência que desconstrói toda pretensão de autoridade. Construtivam…
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