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Critical Approaches to Science and Philosophy

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Adolf Grunbaum
Aristotle's Theory
Aristotle’s Theory
Barker's Argument
Barker’s Argument
Bishop Berkeley
Black Box
Branch Systems
Categorical Propositions
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Coincidence Rate
Combinatory Logic
Common Language
Computer Man
critical rationalism in scientific inquiry
David Bohm
Dissipative Viscosity
epistemology
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Ernst H. Gombrich
F. A. Hayek
falsifiability
Galilean Frame
George H. Nadel
Gerold Stahl
Goodman's Argument
Goodman’s Argument
Groen Van Prinsterer
Hans Albert
Haskell B. Curry
Herbert Feigl
J. C. Eccles
J. O. Wisdom
J. T. Davies
Jean Ullmo
Jerzy Giedymin
John W. N. Watkins
Joseph Agassi
logic and mathematics
Mach Principle
Maxwell's Theory
maxwells
Maxwell’s Theory
Michelson Morley Experiment
Modal Syllogisms
Newton's Metaphysics
Newton’s Metaphysics
Nicholas Rescher
O. R. Frisch
P. W. Bridgman
Paul Bernays
Paul K. Feyerabend
Peter Munz
philosophy of history
Pieter Geyl
Potential Falsifiers
Quasi-closed System
R. M. Hare
Regular Combinators
scientific methodology
social science theory
theory
Valid Syllogism
Vice Versa
W. B. Gallie
William Kneale
William W. Bartley
Wolfgang Yourgrau
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780765804273
  • Weight: 816g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Mar 1998
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This collection of essays, written on four continents by scientists, philosophers and humanists, was initially presented to Karl R. Popper on his sixtieth birthday as a token of critical admiration and in recognition of his work. But the volume also stands on its own as a remarkable series of statements utilizing Popper's critical vision in the study of philosophy proper, logic, mathematics, science as method and theory, and finally to the study of society and history. What is remarkable is that Popper worked in all of these areas, not in a cursory or discursive way, but with the utmost clarity and rigor.

. The core position of this volume and its contributors is that the progress of knowledge is not a linear accumulation of definitive acquisitions but a zigzagging process in which counterexamples and unfavorable evidence ruin generalizations and prompt the invention of more comprehensive and sometimes deeper generalizations, to be criticized in their turn. A critical approach to problems, procedures, and results in every field of inquiry is therefore a necessary condition for the continuance of progress.

The title of this volume then is, in a sense, an homage to Popper's critical rationalism and critical empiricism. The essays are a tribute to his unceasing and uncompromising quest, not for final certainty, but for closer truth and increased clarity. Among the contributors are outstanding figures in philosophy and the exact sciences in their own right, including Herbert Feigl, R. M. Hare, J.O. Wisdom, Nicholas Rescher, David Bohm, Paul K. Feyerabend, F. A. Hayek, and Adolf Grunbaum. Social science contributions include Hans Albert on social science and moral philosophy, W. B. Gallie, on the critical philosophy of history, Pieter Geyl on The Open Society and its Enemies, and George H. Nadel on the philosophy of History.