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  1. Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems.A. O' Hear (ed.) - 1996 - Cambridge University Press.
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    Drugs in sport: A philosophical challenge.A. O'Hear - 2006 - Philosophy 81 (318):559-560.
    There is certainly a strong feeling against the use of drugs in sport, even though many sportsmen and women use them and many more undoubtedly would if they thought they could get away with it. In face of what actually goes on in far too many locker rooms, the efforts of sports authorities to stem the use of drugs can seem futile as well as all too often petty and misguided in practice.
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  3. Philosophical Issues in Education.John Kleinig, Anthony O'hear, C. A. Wringe & Brenda Cohen - 1983 - Philosophical Quarterly 33 (131):202-207.
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  4. Education, Society and Human Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education.A. O'hear - 1983 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (2):188-190.
     
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  5. The Biological Origins of Art: Nancy E. Aiken.A. O. Hear - 2000 - British Journal of Aesthetics 40 (3):390-390.
     
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    Rationality of Action and Theory-Testing in Popper.A. O'hear - 1975 - Mind 84 (1):273-276.
  7. Self-conscious belief.A. O'Hear - 1996 - In Miles Fairburn, W. H. Oliver & Peter Munz (eds.), The certainty of doubt: tributes to Peter Munz. Wellington: Victoria University Press. pp. 336--51.
     
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  8. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.A. O'hear - 1993 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (4):743-758.
    This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the moral and social reality of science. The author's style is free from jargon, and although he makes use of scientific examples, these should be intelligible to those without much scientific background. At the same time the questions he raises are not merely abstract, so the book will be of interest and (...)
     
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    Belief and the Will.Anthony O'Hear - 1972 - Philosophy 47 (180):95 - 112.
    In this article, we will consider how far we might be said to be active in forming our beliefs; in particular, we will ask to what extent we can be said to be free in believing what we want to believe. It is clear that we ought to believe only what is really so, at least in so far as it lies in our power to determine this, but reflection shows that, regrettably, we do not confine our beliefs to what (...)
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  10. The philosophy of Davos-Editorial.A. O'Hear - 2002 - Philosophy 77 (301):307-308.
     
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  11. CORNMAN, J. W. "Skepticism, Justification and Explanation". [REVIEW]A. O. Hear - 1982 - Mind 91:295.
     
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  12. Beyond evolution: human nature and the limits of evolutionary explanation.Anthony O'Hear - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this controversial new book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of evolution. He contends that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature (...)
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  13. Burke, T. E., "The Philosophy of Popper". [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1985 - Mind 94:167.
     
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  14. CURLEY, E. M. "Descartes Against the Sceptics". [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1980 - Mind 89:291.
     
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  15. RESCHER, N. "Scepticism". [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1982 - Mind 91:132.
     
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  16. "Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays." Edited by M. Hooker. [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1980 - Mind 89:289.
     
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    Was Descartes a Voluntarist?Anthony O'Hear - 1979 - Philosophy 54 (207):105 - 107.
  18. "Cartesian Studies". Edited by R. J. Butler. [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1974 - Mind 83:454.
     
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  19. Popper, Sir Karel "Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics". [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1985 - Mind 94:454.
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    Philosophy and the Arts.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2013 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In this volume a group of distinguished aestheticians consider the distinctive ways painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our aesthetic understanding. In addition these are discussions of artistic value and artistic truth, of the value of performance and of the problem of fakes, all of which contribute to a volume which will be of interest both to aestheticians and philosophers more generally.
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  21. Political Philosophy.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2007 - Cambridge University Press.
    This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, first published in 2007, looks at a wide range of topics in political philosophy ranging from issues such as terrorism, egalitarianism and the just war to considerations of the political philosophy of Edmund Burke, of philosophical liberalism and of the current state of utilitarianism in political thought. There are also treatments of the role of innocence and of emotion in political discourse.
     
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    Experience, Explanation and Faith: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.Anthony O'Hear - 1984 - Boston: Routledge.
    In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the indeterminate ground of everything determinate. Drawing on several religious traditions and on the resources of contemporary philosophy, specific chapters analyse the nature of religious faith and of religious experience. They examine (...)
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    What philosophy is: an introduction to contemporary philosophy.Anthony O'Hear - 1985 - Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press.
    What sorts of things really exist, in the world or out of it? What can we know about them? How do your thoughts and words relate to reality? What are human beings? What do their freedom and consciousness amount to? How should people act? What would a just society be like? These are the perennial problems of philosophy, which have been examined and debated for thousands of years and are still confronted by philosophers today. In his superb general introduction to (...)
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    The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2009 - Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
    The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute, and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller. O’Hear begins with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature. After Greek tragedy, Plato, and Virgil’s Aeneid comes Ovid, whose encyclopedic Metamorphoses is an (...)
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    Art and Censorship.Anthony O'Hear - 1991 - Philosophy 66 (258):512 - 516.
    We spent a wonderful morning in the van Gogh gallery in Amsterdam. Of course we knew all the paintings, we had seen them all in reproduction, and the building was more like a bank vault than a setting for art. But what art! At first sight how small and uniform the paintings were in reality: yet every blade of grass, every flower in a field, every olive tree, every vibration in the sky, every patch of colour, every brush stroke, testified (...)
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  26. Scruton, R., "Sexual Desire". [REVIEW]A. O'hear - 1988 - Mind 97:493.
     
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    German Philosophy Since Kant.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 1999 - Cambridge University Press.
    This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy shows the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, partly to challenge the idea that there are two separate, non-communicating traditions. The distinguished contributors include Robert Solomon writing on Nietzsche, Michael Inwood on Heidegger, P. M. S. Hacker on Frege and Wittgenstein, Christopher Janaway on Schopenhauer, Thomas Uebel on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, and Jay Bernstein on Adorno. The collection is rounded off (...)
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    Karl Popper: critical assessments of leading philosophers.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2004 - New York: Routledge.
    This collection brings together the primary assessments of and reactions to the work and abiding influence of this revolutionary thinker, as well as the controversy he caused across many academic and political fields. The set includes early responses to Popper's work from sources difficult to obtain, and also two early reviews (by Carnap and Grelling) in translations specially prepared for this set. It is organized thematically, and includes a substantial new introduction by the editor.
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    Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2000 - Cambridge University Press.
    Discussions of value play a central role in contemporary philosophy. This book considers the role of values in truth seeking, in morality, in aesthetics and also in the spiritual life. The distinguished contributors include Simon Blackburn, Jonathan Dancy, Paul Horwich, John Leslie, Timothy Sprigge, and David Wiggins.
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    A Centenary Celebration: Volume 87: Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2020 - Cambridge University Press.
    This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch. These four remarkable women were philosophical colleagues in Oxford in the 1940s, and their careers intertwined and overlapped henceforth. The papers in this book are all by prominent philosophers who spoke at the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series from 2018-9. Together they cover the philosophical careers of Anscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch, focusing on their thinking on morality, human nature and (...)
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    Imprisonment.Anthony O'Hear - 1984 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 18:203-220.
    It is appropriate that a lecture in a series on ‘Philosophy and Practice’ should open by considering Bentham's ideas on imprisonment. For Bentham, incontestably a philosopher, was equally incontestably a practical reformer. This, indeed, is a received idea among philosophers; that is to say, most philosophers know that Bentham designed ‘a model prison of novel design’ (Mary Warnock), but few have actually considered the design, its implications or its effects. Most are content, like Warnock, with observing that the panopticon plan (...)
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    Modern Moral Philosophy.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe's famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of the contributors do take Anscombe's work as a starting point. Taken together the collection could be seen as a demonstration of the extent to which moral philosophers have since attempted to answer Anscombe's challenge, and to develop an approach to their subject which, while psychologically plausible, is neither based (...)
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    Preface.Anthony O'Hear - 2006 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 58:v-v.
    During the recent Iraq war there was a great deal of discussion of the desirability of bringing democracy to Iraq, and indeed to other countries which were suffering under ruthless and oppressive dictatorships. There was also the thought that if Iraq had a flourishing democratic system, its benefits would become evident within the Middle East, and other peoples in the area would be encouraged to press for more democracy in their own countries. And critics who expressed doubts about any of (...)
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    Philosophy and the Environment.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2011 - Cambridge University Press.
    Environmental questions are among the most pressing and hotly debated of our time. The issues are, in an immediate sense, political and scientific, but one's stance on them also reflects basic philosophical and ethical commitments. For its annual lecture series of 2010–11, The Royal Institute of Philosophy invited a number of distinguished philosophers and environmentalists from a wide range of backgrounds to reflect on their concerns, and this book is based on their lectures.
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    Popper's Platonism.Anthony O'Hear - 1983 - der 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2:978-982.
    Popper suggests human thought and ideas exist in a world of their own, transcending our thought processes and the material world. Theories, and other human ideological creations such as values, institutions and works of art, develop independently of those who work on them, and have a causal effect on them. What Popper suggests in support of his Platonism does not show that our theories are autonomous in any non trivial way. Also the picture of an abstract world of ideas causally (...)
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    Evolution as a Religion: Mary Midgley's Hopes and Fears.Anthony O'Hear - 2020 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 87:263-277.
    This paper considers Mary Midgley's views on evolution, especially as developed in her book Evolution as a Religion. In this she continues the critical campaign she waged against Dawkins’ notion of the selfish gene, but broadens her attack out to encompass many other thinkers, who are predicting dramatic and revolutionary futures for humanity, based supposedly on what evolutionary science tells us. Midgley argues that no such conclusions are scientifically warranted – hence evolution as a religion. Her own attempts to absolve (...)
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    Transcendence, Creation, and Incarnation: From Philosophy to Religion.Anthony O'Hear - 2020 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive approaches to human affairs can distort the appreication of our lives and activities. In the book's first half it examines a number of aspects of human life and experience in the thought of Darwin, Ruskin, and Scruton with a view to exploring the extent to which there (...)
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    Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems.Anthony O'Hear - 1995 - Cambridge University Press.
    Few philosophers in this century have had either Karl Popper's range or his influence, inside and outside philosophy. This collection of essays by fifteen distinguished philosophers, several of whom have been closely associated with Popper and his work, provides a timely assessment of Popper's contributions in a number of key areas: the methodology and philosophy of science; probability and determinism; quantum theory; biology; the theory of evolution; and the theory and practice of politics. The volume offers the specialist and the (...)
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    History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2016 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2014–15. A group of eminent scholars consider important figures in the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to twentieth-century philosophers including Frank Ramsey and Wittgenstein. Along the way, there are considerations of Plotinus and Aquinas, the Rationalists and Empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Frege and the Analytic Revolution. Readers will find new perspectives on the (...)
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    Morality, reasoning and upbringing.Anthony O'Hear - 2020 - Ratio 33 (2):106-116.
    This paper examines the relationship between morality and reasoning in a general sense. Following a broadly Aristotelian framework, it is shown that reasoning well about morality requires good character and a grounding in virtue and experience. Topic neutral ‘critical thinking’ on its own is not enough and may even be detrimental to morality. This has important consequences both for philosophy and for education. While morality is objective and universal, it should not be seen purely in terms of the intellectual grasp (...)
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    Mind, Self and Person.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2015 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2013–14 brought together contributions from a distinguished group of leading figures in the philosophy of mind. The topic the lecturers were asked to speak and write on, 'Mind, Self and Person', has been at the forefront of philosophical enquiry throughout the history of the subject, and, as will be evident from this volume, is as lively and contested an area of investigation in contemporary philosophy as it was in the days of (...)
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  42. Philosophy and Religion: Volume 68.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2011 - Cambridge University Press.
    Surprising as it might have seemed not so long ago, in recent times religion has once again become a focus of lively debate. The exchanges between those for and against religion have, however, often thrown up heat, rather than light. As an attempted corrective, The Royal Institute of Philosophy asked a number of distinguished philosophers who are interested in religion to contribute to its annual lecture series for 2008–9. This volume contains essays based on the lectures. The topics covered include (...)
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    The evolution of knowledge.Anthony O'Hear - 1988 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 2 (1):78-91.
    OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE: POPPER OR WITTGENSTEIN? by Peter Munz London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. 353 pp., £17.95.
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    Not a Matter of Life and Death?Anthony O'Hear - 2013 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 73:65-77.
    ‘Come on, it's not a matter of life and death’, said some Job-like comforter, following a defeat in a football match. ‘No’, replied Bill Shankly, the granite-like Scot who was manager of Liverpool FC during their days of pre-eminence, whose team had just lost, ‘it is more important than that’.
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    Historicism and Architectural Knowledge.Anthony O'Hear - 1993 - Philosophy 68 (264):127 - 144.
    Even today, apologists for modernist and post-modernist architecture frequently appeal to what, following Sir Karl Popper, I will call historicist arguments. Such arguments have a particular poignancy when they are used to justify the replacement of some familiar part of an ancient city with some intentionally untraditional structure; as, for example, when a familiar nineteenth century block of offices in a prime city site is swept away to make room for something supposedly more fitting to the ‘new millennium’, a ‘twentieth (...)
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    Moral Philosophy.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2022 - Cambridge University Press.
    What is moral philosophy? That is the question with which this important volume grapples. Its starting point is the famous critique made in 1958 by Elizabeth Anscombe, who argued that moral philosophy begins from a mistake: that it is fundamentally wrong about the sort of concept that the word 'moral' represents. Anscombe rejected moral philosophy as it was then (and mostly now still is) practised. She offered instead a blueprint for the task moral philosophers must embrace if they are to (...)
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  47. Art and Technology: An Old Tension.Anthony O'Hear - 1995 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:143-158.
    This is not the first time the title ‘Art and Technology’ has been used, but to distinguish what I have to say from Walter Gropius's Bauhaus exhibition of 1923, I am subtitling my paper ‘an old tension’, where the architect spoke of ‘a new unity’. In a way, Gropius has been proved right; the structures of the future avoiding all romantic embellishment and whimsy, the cathedrals of socialism, the corporate planning of comprehensive Utopian designs have all gone up and some (...)
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    Cambridge Philosophers.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2000 - St. Augustine's Press.
    A series of nine major articles by eminent philosophers on the life and work of some of the most important twentieth-century philosophers at Cambridge. All these essays originally appeared in the journal Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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    Epistemology.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2009 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Based on the London Lecture Series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy for 2006–7, this collection brings together essays from leading figures in a rapidly developing field of philosophy. Contributors include: Alvin Goldman, Timothy Williamson, Duncan Pritchard, Miranda Fricker, Scott Sturgeon, Jose Zalabardo, and Quassin Casay.
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    Philosophical Traditions.Anthony O'Hear (ed.) - 2014 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In one sense all philosophies attempt to analyse a small number of questions central to human life: the self, knowledge, the nature of the cosmos and reality, God or the divine. But while topics may be common, approaches have differed historically, and according to the traditions and times in which particular thinkers have worked. The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2012–13 brought together contributions from scholars expert in different traditions in order to explore continuities and discontinuities in (...)
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