Abstract
Joseph Agassi is an Israeli scholar born in Jerusalem on May 7, 1927. He has many books and articles published contributing to the fields of logic, scientific method, foundations of sciences, epistemology and, most importantly for this Journal, in the historiography of science. He studied with Karl Popper, who was definitely his biggest influence. He taught around the world in different universities. He currently lives in Herzliya, Israel. For his important contribution to the historiography of science, we chose to open the first issue of this journal with this interview recognizing his importance for the field, as well as paying our homage to him.
Highlights
Interview: Joseph Agassi accord and discord of researchers’ views about science and their research activities
The publication of my Historiography of Science put me in position that surprised me
Almost all of my publications were well received even though not well sold. (The only exception are the successful sales of the Japanese translation of my The Continuing Revolution: a History of Physics from the Greeks to Einstein and the almost total oversight of my papers on economics, which I am proud of : I am the first to have offered a comprehensive proof of the quantity equation of money or better quantity theory of money.) I am proud of my improvement of the wording of the theory of the social contract and of liberalism, as well as of my advocacy of liberal nationalism, which is a defence of the modern liberal nationstate (Liberal Nationalism for Israel)
Summary
His e-mail is agass@post.tau.ac.il 2For a general approach of Agassi's ideas and interpretations on science, philosophy, and society, see: (Agassi, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2017), (Segre, 2004). Interview: Joseph Agassi accord and discord of researchers’ views about science and their research activities. Joseph Agassi: My first meeting with Popper was a great joy. The publication of my Historiography of Science put me in position that surprised me.
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