Kuhn Vs. Popper

Kuhn Vs. Popper

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  • Author: Steve Fuller
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231134286
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

Although Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic ever since. Kuhn's relativistic vision of science as just another human activity, like art or philosophy, triumphed over Popper's more positivistic belief in revolutionary discoveries and the superiority of scientific provability. Steve Fuller argues that not only has Kuhn's dominance had an adverse impact on the field but both thinkers have been radically misinterpreted in the process.


After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend

After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend

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  • Author: Robert Nola
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9781402002465
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about method and current directions of research.


Popper and His Popular Critics

Popper and His Popular Critics

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  • Author: Joseph Agassi
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319065874
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 159

This volume examines Popper’s philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view of science as inductive. Starting from the assumption that Hume’s criticism of induction is valid, the book explores the central criticism and objections that these three critics have raised. Their objections have met with great success, are significant and deserve paraphrase. One also may consider them reasonable protests against Popper’s high standards rather than fundamental criticisms of his philosophy. The book starts out with a preliminary discussion of some central background material and essentials of Popper’s philosophy. It ends with nutshell representations of the philosophies of Popper. Kuhn, Feyerabend and Lakatos. The middle section of the book presents the connection between these philosophers and explains what their central ideas consists of, what the critical arguments are, how they presented them, and how valid they are. In the process, the author claims that Popper's popular critics used against him arguments that he had invented (and answered) without saying so. They differ from him mainly in that they demanded of all criticism that it should be constructive: do not stop believing a refuted theory unless there is a better alternative to it. Popper hardly ever discussed belief, delegating its study to psychology proper; he usually discussed only objective knowledge, knowledge that is public and thus open to public scrutiny.


Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

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  • Author: Stefano Gattei
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134182953
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 154

Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper’s development to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.


The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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  • Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780226458038
  • Category : Historia de la fisica
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226


Conjectures and Refutations

Conjectures and Refutations

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  • Author: Karl Raimund Popper
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415285940
  • Category : Knowledge, Theory of
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 614

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.


Thomas Kuhn's 'Linguistic Turn' and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

Thomas Kuhn's 'Linguistic Turn' and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

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  • Author: Stefano Gattei
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351879103
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 450

Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "new philosophy of science" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Kuhn as the central figure of the new philosophy of science, and Popper as a key philosopher of the time who stands outside both traditions. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century; that Kuhn is much closer to positivism than many have supposed, failing to solve the crisis of neopostivism, and that Popper, in responding to the deeper crisis of foundationalism that spans the whole of the Western philosophical tradition, ultimately shows what is untenable in Kuhn's view. Gattei has written a very detailed and fine grained, yet accessible discussion making exceptionally interesting use of archive materials.


The Myth of the Framework

The Myth of the Framework

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  • Author: Karl Popper
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113597473X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 245

In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism - a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published in cooperation with the Central European University.


Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment

Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment

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  • Author: Nicholas Maxwell
  • Publisher: UCL Press
  • ISBN: 178735041X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward.But Nicholas Maxwell finds a flaw in this line of argument. Physicists only ever accept theories that are unified – theories that depict the same laws applying to the range of phenomena to which the theory applies – even though many other empirically more successful disunified theories are always available. This means that science makes a questionable assumption about the universe, namely that all disunified theories are false. Without some such presupposition as this, the whole empirical method of science breaks down.By proposing a new conception of scientific methodology, which can be applied to all worthwhile human endeavours with problematic aims, Maxwell argues for a revolution in academic inquiry to help humanity make progress towards a better, more civilized and enlightened world.


The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

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  • Author: Karl Popper
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134470029
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 545

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.