David Stove
| David Stove | |
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| Born |
15 September 1927 Moree, New South Wales |
| Died | 2 June 1994 (aged 66) Mulgoa, New South Wales |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School |
Analytic philosophy Australian Realism |
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Main interests
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Philosophy of science, metaphysics |
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Notable ideas
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"The Gem" |
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Influenced
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David Charles Stove (15 September 1927 – 2 June 1994), was an Australian philosopher. His work in philosophy of science included criticisms of David Hume's Inductive scepticism, as well as what he regarded as the irrationalism of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend. He offered a positive response to the problem of induction in his 1986 work, The Rationality of Induction. Stove was also a critic of Idealism and sociobiology, describing the latter as a new religion in which genes play the role of gods.
Born in Moree (a small country town in northern New South Wales), David Stove was the youngest of five children; his parents were Robert Stove, a schoolteacher (d. 1971), and Ida Stove, née Hill (d. 1946). Later, Stove lived (with his family) in Newcastle, New South Wales before moving south and studying philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1945 to 1948. During his childhood he had been associated with Presbyterianism, but in his teens he became an atheist, although he retained a lifelong interest in patristic theology.
At university, like many Sydney intellectuals of his generation, Stove came under the influence of the realist Professor John Anderson. Early in his undergraduate career Stove was part of a bohemian set at Sydney University (some of whom later became part of the "Sydney Push") and he flirted with Marxism. In "A Farewell to Arts", Quadrant, May 1986 he asserts that he abandoned Marxism when he discovered "what real intellectual work was". He eventually became a political conservative, and was later to clash with some of his former comrades.
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