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David Charles Stove (15 September 1927 – 2 June 1994), was an Australian philosopher. His work in philosophy of science included criticisms of David Hume's inductive scepticism, as well as what he regarded as the irrationalism of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend. He offered a positive response to the problem of induction in his 1986 work, ''The Rationality of Induction''. Stove was also a critic of Idealism and sociobiology, describing the latter as a new religion in which genes play the role of gods.〔Stove, David (1992). ''Philosophy'' 67, pp. 233–240.〕 ==Life== Born in Moree (a small country town in northern New South Wales), David Stove was the youngest of five children; his parents were Robert Stove, a schoolteacher (d. 1971), and Ida Stove, née Hill (d. 1946). Later, David lived (with his family) in Newcastle, New South Wales before moving south and studying philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1945 to 1948. During his childhood he had been associated with Presbyterianism, but in his teens he became an atheist, although he retained a lifelong interest in patristic theology. At university, like many Sydney intellectuals of his generation, Stove came under the influence of the realist Professor John Anderson.〔Stove, David (1977). "The Force of Intellect: Fifty Years of John Anderson" ''Quadrant'' 21 (7), pp. 45–46.〕 Early in his undergraduate career Stove was part of a bohemian set at Sydney University (some of whom later became part of the "Sydney Push") and he flirted with Marxism. In "A Farewell to Arts", ''Quadrant'', May 1986 he asserts that he abandoned Marxism when he discovered "what real intellectual work was". He eventually became a political conservative, and was later to clash with some of his former comrades. In 1952 he obtained a lectureship at the University of New South Wales (in the Sydney suburb of Kensington) and, in 1960, became a lecturer at the University of Sydney, where he eventually became an associate professor. During the 1970s, his department became infamous for its battles between Marxists and conservatives, these struggles receiving national press coverage.〔Franklin, James (1999). ("The Sydney Philosophy Disturbances," ) ''Quadrant'' 43 (4), pp. 16–21. (Repr. in ''Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia''. Macleay Press, 2003.)〕 Stove and David M. Armstrong both resisted what they regarded as attempts by Marxists to take over the department; and the result was that the department had to be split into two new departments. Stove spoke out (notably in the pages of ''Quadrant'') about what he felt were abuses by Marxists and feminists in the university, and was warned that disciplinary proceedings would take place if he did not keep quiet. Former senator and cabinet minister Susan Ryan spoke in the federal parliament against him. He took early retirement in 1987. Stove had moved out of the city centre to the edge of the Sydney basin at Mulgoa. He was devoted to gardening and preserving the wilderness, although he was sometimes critical of environmentalists. His other great loves were Handel, Purcell, old books, and cricket.〔Torrance, Kelly Jane (2011). ("Is That All There Is?," ) ''The Weekly Standard'' 17 (11).〕 In 1959 he had married Jessie Leahy (1926–2001), who had grown up in Queensland before working in Sydney as a pathologist, and who like him was an atheist from a Presbyterian background. The couple had two children, Robert and Judith. A lifelong enthusiastic smoker, David Stove developed debilitating oesophageal cancer in 1993. His wife suffered, also in 1993, a massive stroke (although she outlived him by seven years). After a painful struggle with the disease, he took his own life on 2 June 1994, aged 66.〔Roger Kimball's prefatory essay to Stove's ''Against the Idols of the Age''. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999, p. x. ISBN 0-7658-0000-4〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Stove」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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