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  | | Darwinian Fairytales(Updated) Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution by David C. Stove, Roger Kimball Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2007 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-200-4, ISBN: 1-59403-200-9 "Whatever your opinion of `Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls `Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ `selfish genes’ and `memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird droppings is alone worth the price of the book. Darwinian Fairytales should be read and pondered by anyone interested in sociobiology, the origin ..." |
 | | On Enlightenment(Reprint) by David Stove, Andrew Irvine, Roger Kimball Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2013 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-5186-2, ISBN: 1-4128-5186-6 "The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values is still the yardstick by which moral, political, and scientific advances are measured. In On Enlightenment, David Stove attacks the roots of enlightenment thought to define its successes, ..." |
 | | Against the Idols of the Age(Updated) by David C. Stove, Roger Kimball Paperback, 347 Pages, Published 2001 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7658-0910-0, ISBN: 0-7658-0910-9 "Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and philosophical idealism. He was also an occasional essayist of considerable charm and polemical snap. Stove's writing is both r ..." |
 | | Scientific Irrationalism(1st Edition) Origins of a Postmodern Cult by David C. Stove, Keith Windschuttle, David Franklin, James Franklin, Jillian Carman Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2006 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-0646-6, ISBN: 1-4128-0646-1 "Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and philosophical idealism. Since its inception in the 1940s, the field of science studies, originally intended to bridge the gap between scien ..." |
 | | Secession, State, and Liberty(1st Edition) by David Gordon, David Stove, Transaction Publishers Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2002 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7658-0943-8, ISBN: 0-7658-0943-5 "Secession, State and Liberty The political impulse to secede -- to attempt to separate from central government control -- is a conspicuous feature of the post-cold war world. It is alive and growing in Canada, Russia, China, Italy, Belgium, Britain, and even the United States Yet secession remains one of the least studied and least understood of all historical and political phenomena. The contributors to this volume have filled this gap ..." |
 | | Cricket versus Republicanism and other essays by David Stove, D.C. Stove, James Franklin, R. J. Stove Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2013 by Quakers Hill Press ISBN-13: 978-0-646-21328-6, ISBN: 0-646-21328-8 "David Stove, a great Australian essayist, takes on Arts faculties, feminism, republicanism, Marxism, Darwinism, and anything beginning with "soc . . ."" |
 | | Darwinian Fairytales Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Fables of Evolution by David Stove, Roger Kimball, David C. Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-140-3, ISBN: 1-59403-140-1 "Whatever your opinion of Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ selfish genes’ and memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird droppings is alone worth the price of the book. Darwinian Fairytales should be read and pondered by anyone interested in sociobiology, the origin of altruism, an ..." |
 | | Secession, State, and Liberty (Hardback) by David Stove Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2017 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-138-53234-2, ISBN: 1-138-53234-7 "Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1." |
 | | The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies(1st Edition) by David Charles Stove Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1991 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-17709-8, ISBN: 0-631-17709-4 "This is a book of philosophy, written by a philosopher and intended for anyone who knows enough philosophy to have been seriously injured, antagonised, mystified or intoxicated by it. Stove is passionately polemical, a philosophical counterpart to Tom Wolfe. Setting out to deflate a few philosophical reputations, he lambastes both the dead (Plato, Hegel, Kant, Foucault) and the living (Popper, Nozick, Feyerabend, Goodman). Yet he says t ..." |
 | | What's Wrong with Benevolence Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment by David Charles Stove, Andrew Irvine, A. D. Irvine, Roger Kimball Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-523-4, ISBN: 1-59403-523-7 "Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolenceâ of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to decreased economic incentives, lower ra ..." |
 | | Against the Idols of the Age by David Stove 347 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-53338-6, ISBN: 1-351-53338-X "'" Against the Idols of the Age brings together a repre-sentative selection of Stove's writing and is an ideal introduction to his work.The book opens with some of Stove's most impor-tant attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of sci ..." |
 | | Scientific Irrationalism Origins of a Postmodern Cult by David Stove 226 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-49176-1, ISBN: 1-351-49176-8 "In Scientific Irrationalism, now available in paperback, David Stove demonstrates how extravagant has been the verbiage wasted on this issue and how irrational the combatants have been." |
 | | On Enlightenment by David Stove 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-50223-8, ISBN: 1-351-50223-9 "denies his disinterestedness, courage or style.50 Whether you agree with David Stove or not, it is difficult to read him ... 1991; Cricket versus Republicanism and Other Essays, edited by James Franklin and R.J. Stove, Sydney: Quakers Hill ..." |
 | | Against the Idols of the Age by David Stove 347 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-53337-9, ISBN: 1-351-53337-1 "'" Against the Idols of the Age brings together a repre-sentative selection of Stove's writing and is an ideal introduction to his work.The book opens with some of Stove's most impor-tant attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of sci ..." |
 | | What's Wrong with Benevolence Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment by Andrew Irvine, David Stove 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Readhowyouwant.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-2436-8, ISBN: 1-4596-2436-X "Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment Andrew Irvine, David Stove. “Santamaria and the ... DISCUSSION AND CITATION P. Tichy, The Foundations of Frege's Logic (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988), 118. B. Brown, “ Defending Backwards Causation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22 (1992), 429–443. J. Woods, A. Irvine, and D. Walton, Argument: Critical Thinking, Logic and the Fallacies (Toronto: Prentice Hall Canada, ..." |
 | | What's Wrong with Benevolence Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment by David Stove 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-551-7, ISBN: 1-59403-551-2 "1980 “The Green World," review of The Discovery of South America by J. H. Parry , Quadrant, 24:6 (June 1980), 77—78. “A Lovesome Thing," review ... 1981 “ Minute Detail,” review of London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: The Diary of George Gissing by P. Coustillas, Quadrant, 25:4 (April 1981), 71—72. 1982 “A Question of ... REPRINTED D. C. Stove, Cricket versus Republicanism and Other Essays (Sydney: Quakers Hil ..." |
 | | Civil Human Rights in Russia Modern Problems of Theory and Practice (Hardcover) by F. M. Rudinsky, Windschuttle Windschuttle, James Franklin, David Stove Hardcover, 458 Pages, Published 2006 by Transaction Publishers,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-7658-0391-7, ISBN: 0-7658-0391-7 "The fall of the Soviet communist regime in 1991 offers a challenging contrast to otherinstances of democratic transition and change in the last decades of the ..." |
 | | Popper and After Four Modern Irrationalists by D. C. Stove, David Stove Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1982 by Pergamon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-08-026791-3, ISBN: 0-08-026791-2 "Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Contents clean, firm. Front covers curled at corners." |
 | | Darwinian Fairytales Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution by David C. Stove, Roger Kimball 345 Pages, Published 2006 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-301-8, ISBN: 1-59403-301-3 "They have to put it aside, because of course this human life contains not a single instance of the famous Darwinian ... Enough to know, at least, that even if the world of business is some sort of jungle, it is quite certainly not a Darwinian jungle. In the business world, every single transaction depends upon who owns what, and how much, money, shares, goods, real estate, ... pine property, cod courts which determine which fish ow ..." |
 | | On Enlightenment(1st Edition) by David Charles Stove, Roger Kimball, Andrew Irvine, A. D. Irvine, Andrew R. Irvine Hardcover, 222 Pages, Published 2002 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7658-0136-4, ISBN: 0-7658-0136-1 "The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and human well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, political mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by which moral, political, and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed, most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implemen ..." |
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