Andrew Lugg

From Philosopedia

Andrew Lugg (4 November 1941 - )

Lugg was born in Reading, England, the son of Edwin Maxwell and Phyllis May Lugg (née Batten).

He earned his BSc (Engineering) in Electical Engineering at University College, London (1965).

At the University of Michigan, he earned his MSE in Electrical Engineering (1967) and his PhD in Philosophy (1974).

Lugg's interests include research, the history of analytic philosophy, and scientism and pseudoscience. He is particularly interested in the philosophies of W. V. Quine and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Currently, Lugg is an Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, and lives in Montreal, Quebec, with his wife, Lynne Cohen.

Selected Publications

Wittgenstein's Investigations 1-133, Routledge, 2000;

paperback edition (2004).

Pseudociencia, Irracionalismo y Cientismo: Ensayos filosóficos,

Ediciones de Filosofia Applicada, Lima (2001).

Wittgenstein on Colour, 1949/1950 in Carlos Moya & Luigi

Perissinotto (eds).

Sense and Nonsense. Wittgenstein and the critique of language,

Pre-Textos (2009).

"Wittgenstein and Politics: Not Right, Left or Center,"

International Studies in Philosophy, 36 (2004).

"Wittgenstein's Tractatus: True Thoughts and Nonsensical

Propositions," Philosophical Investigations, 26 (2003).

"La sémantique de Carnap: construction scientifique ou vision

philosophique?" in F. Lepage, M. Paquette & F. Rivenc (eds),

Carnap Aujourd'hui, Bellemin, Montréal, & Vrin, Paris, 2002.

“Consensus and Common Ground”, Tijdschrift voor Filosophie,

53 (1991).

“Pierre Duhem's Conception of Natural Classification," Synthese,

83 (1990).

“History, Discovery and Induction: Whewell on Kepler on the Orbit

of Mars," in J.R. Brown and J. Mittelstrass (eds), An Intimate

Relation: Essays in History and Philosophy of Science, Reidel,

Dordrecht, 1989.

The Priority of Paradigms' Revisited," in Zeitschrift für allgemeine

Wissenschaftstheorie, XVIII (1987).

“Bunkum, Flim-Flam and Quackery: Pseudoscience as a

Philosophical Problem," Dialectica 41 (1987).

“The Process of Discovery," in Philosophy of Science 52 (1985).

“Theory Choice and Resistance to Change," in Philosophy of

Science 47 (1980).

“Disagreement in Science," in Zeitschrift für allgemeine

Wissenschaftstheorie IX (1978).

“Feyerabend's Rationalism," in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7

(1977)