David Stove

David Stove (* 15. September 1927; † 2. Juni 1994) war ein australischer Philosoph.

Sein Interesse galt vor allem den folgenden Themen:

Verteidigung des Induktivismus
Kritik an Wissenschaftstheoretikern wie Karl R. Popper, Thomas S. Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend und Imre Lakatos, denen er explizit Irrationalismus attestiert
Kritik an Theologie und Idealismus in der Philosophie
Kritik an Feminismus, Marxismus und (französischer) Semiotik
Kritik an Darwinismus und Soziobiologie

Schriften

Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism, Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists, Oxford: Pergamon, 1982. (Auch unter dem Titel Scientific Irrationalism, New Brunswick: Transaction, 2001; und als 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 & R. J. 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" (zusammen mit C. A. Hooker), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18, 1968, 305-315.
"Deductivism", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48, 1970, 76-98.
"Misconditionalisation", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50, 1972, 173-183.
"Why should probability be the guide of life?", in D. W. Livingston & D. T. 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, (postum in Cricket versus Republicanism).
"A new religion", Philosophy 67, 1992, 233-240.
"So you think you are a Darwinian?", Philosophy 69, 1994, 267-77.