Critical Rationalism
Autor David Milleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2003
David Miller elegantly and provocatively reformulates critical rationalism--the revolutionary approach to epistemology advocated by Karl Popper--by answering its most important critics. He argues for an approach to rationality freed from the debilitating authoritarian dependence on reasons and justification.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812691986
ISBN-10: 0812691989
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Open Court Publishing Company
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0812691989
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Open Court Publishing Company
Locul publicării:United States
Descriere
Critical Rationalism, Popper's revolutionary approach to epistemology and scientific method, conceives human knowledge as consisting of unsupported guesses or conjectures. Investigation is therefore concerned, not with conclusively justifying our ideas - a hopeless endeavor - but with inventing new unjustified ideas and ejecting faulty ideas from the corpus of knowledge by criticism and refutation. The critical rationalist approach has been attacked by those who contend that it is little better than pure skepticism or irrationalism, or that it surreptitiously smuggles in the notion of inductive support. David Miller elegantly and provocatively reformulates critical rationalism by answering all its important critics. He presents a full defence of Popper's solution to the problem of induction, especially in the form which relates to practical decision-making. All known attempts to impeach Popper's solution as skeptical, irrationalist, or implicitly inductivist, are carefully considered and refuted. Critical Rationalism includes a detailed discussion of the role of probability in scientific method. Dr. Miller critically dissects the claims of Bayesianism, argues that objective probabilities do exist in the world, and proposes a new objectivist interpretation that makes sense of objective single-case probabilities even in a deterministic universe.