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Given the title of the present paper, I feel singularly privileged by having to speak here today just after Professor Sneed and just before Professor Balzer. This can be well understood and I leave it at that. However, despite (or, rather, because of) this privilege, my feelings are not unmixed — to say the least. The question-mark in my title — implying that my conclusions are not definite (and hence that my presumed Marxism is probably not of the dogmatic variety) — as well as the adjective “strange” there — intending to predispose my audience favourably by inciting it to keep an open mind towards what it is going to hear — are very poor defenses indeed against the risks involved in what I am about to propose, namely that the encounter in question — the question-mark notwithstanding — is effective.
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Baltas, A. (1989). Louis Althusser and Joseph D. Sneed: A Strange Encounter in Philosophy of Science?. In: Gavroglu, K., Goudaroulis, Y., Nicolacopoulos, P. (eds) Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3025-4_20
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