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Our long-time contributor and good friend Professor Peter Rickman died on 10th April aged 95. Born to a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Peter Rickman began his first degree there in the late 1930s. He fortunately was away studying in Britain in 1938, first at the University of London, then taking his DPhil at Oxford University where he ...
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The Epistemology of Ignorance. Peter Rickman on the crucial importance of context. A great deal has been written on the roots of knowledge in sensory experience ordered by reason. Have we given enough thought to our dependence on the contexts into which we can place any information?
Peter Rickman tells us why it isn’t. I was slightly taken aback when I heard a speaker at a psychology lecture meeting claiming confidently that psychology was a science. Of course, if we define science broadly, as the systematic search for knowledge, psychology would qualify for that label. But it is not terminology that is at issue here ...
Peter Rickman soon became one of the most regular contributors. [4] In 1997, a group of American philosophers including Raymond Pfeiffer and Charles Echelbarger lobbied the American Philosophical Association to start a similar magazine in the United States. [ 5 ]
Philosophy Now. Volume 86, September/October 2011. Kant & Co. Peter Rickman. Pages 10-12. Having Trouble With Kant? << Previous Article.
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