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Once I was a physicist, working at the beginnings of plasma physics, after a few years in the Second World War dealing with radar, radar counter-measures, and scientific intelligence. Then I added history of physics, and always looked for philosophy. Why philosophy? Well, philosophy deals with three basic questions: What is? How do we know? What ought to be?
This paper was first a tribute to Kluwer, the original publisher of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, and our dear editor Annie Kuipers . A Russian translation was published as my contribution to a Festschrift for my dear friend Natalia Avtonomova (Moscow, 2015). The English text is hereby offered to celebrate my beloved friend and colleague Joseph Agassi .
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Cohen, R.S. (2017). Reflections on Science and Imagination. In: Bar-Am, N., Gattei, S. (eds) Encouraging Openness. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 325. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_17
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