David Stove (1927-1994) taught philosophy at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He is the author of numerous books, including The Rationality of Induction and Against the Idols of the Age.
-Stove was undoubtedly the most stylish and witty writer of all
philosphers of the last one hundred years, if not of all time. When
it comes to attacking the absurdities of twentieth century
intellectual movements no one else came close, and certainly no one
else was as funny. The greatest iconoclast of the twentieth
century, we can now see in retrospect, was not any of the European
avant-garde, most of whom in fact, epitomized the spirit of the
century perfectly, but this no nonsense Australian. His greatest
contributions were in the philosophy of science, in particular in
his defense of inductive reasoning, and in his attack on the sort
of irrationalism manifested by his four horsemen, Popper, Kuhn,
Lalatos, and Feyerabend.- --The Review of Metaphysics -A
self-proclaimed neo-positivist-and a brilliant, truculent,
cantankerous essayist-Stove attacks everything from contemporary
philosophy of science and evolutionary theory to religious belief
and intellectual equality of women.- --The Weekly Standard -The
greatest philosopher of the twentieth century may not have been
Wittgenstein, or Russell, or Quine (and he certainly wasn't
Heidegger), but he may have been a somewhat obscure and
conservative Australian named David Stove (1927-94). If he wasn't
the greatest philosopher of the century, Stove was certainly the
funniest and most dazzling defender of common sense to be numbered
among the ranks of last century's thinkers, better even--by
far--than G. E. Moore and J. L. Austin. . . . What separates Stove
from your average angry-eyed reactionary is the startling brilliant
way that he argues, combining plain horse sense with the most
nimble and skillful philosophical reasoning this side of Hume,
along with a breathtaking wit.- --Partisan Review -An early,
fearless, sometimes reckless combatant in the science and culture
wars, Stove fought wittily and two-fistedly on the side of
empirical realism.- --Choice -The incisiveness of [Stove's] logic
presses toward the something new and adventuresome that has been
obscured by the intellectual idols of the age.- --The New Criterion
-David Stove is thoughtful, trenchant, sharp and wonderfully
disrespectful of the established pieties of our time.- --Harvey C.
Mansfield, Harvard University -Stove is an independent and honest
philosopher who, like Voltaire and Nietsche, has the wit to make us
laugh as we learn.- --John Silber, Boston University
"Stove was undoubtedly the most stylish and witty writer of all
philosphers of the last one hundred years, if not of all time. When
it comes to attacking the absurdities of twentieth century
intellectual movements no one else came close, and certainly no one
else was as funny. The greatest iconoclast of the twentieth
century, we can now see in retrospect, was not any of the European
avant-garde, most of whom in fact, epitomized the spirit of the
century perfectly, but this no nonsense Australian. His greatest
contributions were in the philosophy of science, in particular in
his defense of inductive reasoning, and in his attack on the sort
of irrationalism manifested by his four horsemen, Popper, Kuhn,
Lalatos, and Feyerabend." --The Review of Metaphysics "A
self-proclaimed neo-positivist-and a brilliant, truculent,
cantankerous essayist-Stove attacks everything from contemporary
philosophy of science and evolutionary theory to religious belief
and intellectual equality of women." --The Weekly Standard "The
greatest philosopher of the twentieth century may not have been
Wittgenstein, or Russell, or Quine (and he certainly wasn't
Heidegger), but he may have been a somewhat obscure and
conservative Australian named David Stove (1927-94). If he wasn't
the greatest philosopher of the century, Stove was certainly the
funniest and most dazzling defender of common sense to be numbered
among the ranks of last century's thinkers, better even--by
far--than G. E. Moore and J. L. Austin. . . . What separates Stove
from your average angry-eyed reactionary is the startling brilliant
way that he argues, combining plain horse sense with the most
nimble and skillful philosophical reasoning this side of Hume,
along with a breathtaking wit." --Partisan Review "An early,
fearless, sometimes reckless combatant in the science and culture
wars, Stove fought wittily and two-fistedly on the side of
empirical realism." --Choice "The incisiveness of [Stove's] logic
presses toward the something new and adventuresome that has been
obscured by the intellectual idols of the age." --The New Criterion
"David Stove is thoughtful, trenchant, sharp and wonderfully
disrespectful of the established pieties of our time." --Harvey C.
Mansfield, Harvard University "Stove is an independent and honest
philosopher who, like Voltaire and Nietsche, has the wit to make us
laugh as we learn." --John Silber, Boston University
"Stove was undoubtedly the most stylish and witty writer of all
philosphers of the last one hundred years, if not of all time. When
it comes to attacking the absurdities of twentieth century
intellectual movements no one else came close, and certainly no one
else was as funny. The greatest iconoclast of the twentieth
century, we can now see in retrospect, was not any of the European
avant-garde, most of whom in fact, epitomized the spirit of the
century perfectly, but this no nonsense Australian. His greatest
contributions were in the philosophy of science, in particular in
his defense of inductive reasoning, and in his attack on the sort
of irrationalism manifested by his four horsemen, Popper, Kuhn,
Lalatos, and Feyerabend." --The Review of Metaphysics "A
self-proclaimed neo-positivist-and a brilliant, truculent,
cantankerous essayist-Stove attacks everything from contemporary
philosophy of science and evolutionary theory to religious belief
and intellectual equality of women." --The Weekly Standard "The
greatest philosopher of the twentieth century may not have been
Wittgenstein, or Russell, or Quine (and he certainly wasn't
Heidegger), but he may have been a somewhat obscure and
conservative Australian named David Stove (1927-94). If he wasn't
the greatest philosopher of the century, Stove was certainly the
funniest and most dazzling defender of common sense to be numbered
among the ranks of last century's thinkers, better even--by
far--than G. E. Moore and J. L. Austin. . . . What separates Stove
from your average angry-eyed reactionary is the startling brilliant
way that he argues, combining plain horse sense with the most
nimble and skillful philosophical reasoning this side of Hume,
along with a breathtaking wit." --Partisan Review "An early,
fearless, sometimes reckless combatant in the science and culture
wars, Stove fought wittily and two-fistedly on the side of
empirical realism." --Choice "The incisiveness of [Stove's] logic
presses toward the something new and adventuresome that has been
obscured by the intellectual idols of the age." --The New Criterion
"David Stove is thoughtful, trenchant, sharp and wonderfully
disrespectful of the established pieties of our time." --Harvey C.
Mansfield, Harvard University "Stove is an independent and honest
philosopher who, like Voltaire and Nietsche, has the wit to make us
laugh as we learn." --John Silber, Boston University
"Stove was undoubtedly the most stylish and witty writer of all
philosphers of the last one hundred years, if not of all time. When
it comes to attacking the absurdities of twentieth century
intellectual movements no one else came close, and certainly no one
else was as funny. The greatest iconoclast of the twentieth
century, we can now see in retrospect, was not any of the European
avant-garde, most of whom in fact, epitomized the spirit of the
century perfectly, but this no nonsense Australian. His greatest
contributions were in the philosophy of science, in particular in
his defense of inductive reasoning, and in his attack on the sort
of irrationalism manifested by his four horsemen, Popper, Kuhn,
Lalatos, and Feyerabend." --The Review of Metaphysics "A
self-proclaimed neo-positivist-and a brilliant, truculent,
cantankerous essayist-Stove attacks everything from contemporary
philosophy of science and evolutionary theory to religious belief
and intellectual equality of women." --The Weekly Standard "The
greatest philosopher of the twentieth century may not have been
Wittgenstein, or Russell, or Quine (and he certainly wasn't
Heidegger), but he may have been a somewhat obscure and
conservative Australian named David Stove (1927-94). If he wasn't
the greatest philosopher of the century, Stove was certainly the
funniest and most dazzling defender of common sense to be numbered
among the ranks of last century's thinkers, better even--by
far--than G. E. Moore and J. L. Austin. . . . What separates Stove
from your average angry-eyed reactionary is the startling brilliant
way that he argues, combining plain horse sense with the most
nimble and skillful philosophical reasoning this side of Hume,
along with a breathtaking wit." --Partisan Review "An early,
fearless, sometimes reckless combatant in the science and culture
wars, Stove fought wittily and two-fistedly on the side of
empirical realism." --Choice
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