David Stove

David Stove (born September 15, 1927 , † June 2, 1994 ) was an Australian philosopher .

He was particularly interested in the following topics:

Defense of inductivism
Criticism of science theorists such as Karl R. Popper , Thomas S. Kuhn , Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos , to whom he explicitly attributes irrationalism
Critique of theology and idealism in philosophy
Criticism of feminism , Marxism and (French) semiotics
Critique of Darwinism and Sociobiology

Fonts

Probability and Hume's Inductive Skepticism , Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists , Oxford: Pergamon, 1982. (Also under the title Scientific Irrationalism , New Brunswick: Transaction, 2001; and as Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism , Macleay Press, Sydney, 1998.)
The Rationality of Induction , Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies , Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Cricket versus Republicanism , ed.James Franklin & RJ Stove, Sydney: Quakers Hill Press, 1995.
Darwinian Fairytales , Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995, repr. New York: Encounter Books, 2006.
Against the Idols of the Age , ed. Roger Kimball, New Brunswick (US) and London (UK): Transaction, 1999.
On Enlightenment , ed. Andrew Irvine, New Brunswick (US) and London (UK): Transaction, 2002.

"Hume, Probability, and Induction", Philosophical Review 74, 1965, 160-177.
"Hempel's paradox", Dialogue 4, 1966, 444-455.
"Relevance and the ravens" (together with CA Hooker), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18, 1968, 305-315.
"Deductivism", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48, 1970, 76-98.
"Misconditionalization", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50, 1972, 173-183.
"Why should probability be the guide of life?", In DW Livingston & DT King, Hume: A Re-Evaluation, New York , 1976, pp. 50-68.
"Popper on scientific statements", Philosophy 53, 1978, 81-88.
"How Popper's philosophy began", Philosophy 57, 1982, 381-387.
"Paralytic epistemology, or the soundless scream", New Ideas in Psychology 2, 1984, 21-24.
"Karl Popper and the Jazz Age", Encounter 65 (1), June 1985, 65-74.
"A farewell to arts: Marxism, semiotics and feminism", Quadrant 30 (5), May, 1986, 8-11.
"The Columbus argument" Commentary 84 (6), 1987, 57-58.
"Righting wrongs" Commentary 85 (1) January 1988, 57-59.
"D'Holbach's dream: the central claim of the enlightenment", Quadrant 33 (12) December 1989, 28-31.
"The intellectual capacity of women," Proceedings of The Russellian Society 15, 1990, (posthumously in Cricket versus Republicanism ).
"A new religion", Philosophy 67, 1992, 233-240.
"So you think you are a Darwinian?", Philosophy 69, 1994, 267-77.