Joseph Agassi: Popper and His Popular Critics

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Beschreibung

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.

Zusammenfassung

Discusses Popper's recent critics rather than the Wittgenstein-style critics

Refutes the critics' exaggerations of Popper's views

Is born out of perennial attempts to navigate between dogmatism and relativism

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Preface.- Acknowledgement.- A. Prelims.- A1. On Human Rules about God's World A2. In search for Rules.- A3. Rules against Mock-Criticism.- A4. Rules against excessive defensiveness.- A5. Against the Bouncers in the Gates of Science.- A5. Duhem, Quine and Kuhn.- B. Popper and his Popular Critics.- B1. Karl Raimund Popper B2. Kuhn's Way.- B3. Feyerabend's Proposal B4. Imre Lakatos.- B5. A Touch of Malice.- C. In a Nutshell.- C1. The Essential Popper.- C2. Kuhn on Pluralism and Incommensurability.- C3. Paul Feyerabend and Rational Pluralism.- C4. Lakatos on the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs.- C5. Epilogue: Civilization and its Self-Defense.- D. References.- D1. Appendix 1: The Biological Base of Dogmatism.- D2. Appendix 2: Popper on Explanation.- D3. Bibliography.- D4. Index of names.- D5. Index of Subjects.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Inhalt:	xx 158 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319065861
ISBN-10:	3319065866
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	86365226
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Agassi, Joseph
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Maße:	235 x 155 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Joseph Agassi
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.05.2014
Gewicht:	0,283 kg

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