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Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge

Author : John H. Sceski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144112019X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge written by John H. Sceski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John H. Sceski argues that Karl Popper's philosophy offers a radical treatment of objectivity that can reconcile freedom and progress in a manner that preserves the best elements of the Enlightenment tradition. His book traces the development of Popper's account of objectivity by examining his original contributions to key issues in the philosophy of science. Popper's early confrontation with logical positivism, his rarely discussed four-fold treatment of the problem of induction, and his theory of propensities and evolutionary epistemology are linked in a novel way to produce a coherent and philosophically relevant picture of objectivity. Sceski also explores and clarifies many central issues in the philosophy of science such as probabilistic support, verisimilitude, and the relationship between special relativity and indeterminism. He concludes that Popper's account of objectivity can best bridge the gap between Enlightenment aims for science and freedom and post-modern misgivings about 'truth', by developing a philosophy that is non-foundationalist yet able to account for the growth of knowledge.

Objective Knowledge

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198750246
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Objective Knowledge written by Karl Raimund Popper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.

Conjectures and Refutations

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415285940
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Conjectures and Refutations written by Karl Raimund Popper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Popper's Approach to Education

Author : Stephanie Chitpin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317378059
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Popper's Approach to Education written by Stephanie Chitpin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the theory of induction in teacher education, this book proposes a knowledge-building framework based on the critical rationalism of philosopher of science, Karl Popper. The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework developed in this book is designed to be an effective critical analysis framework for empowering teachers and schools to build and share professional knowledge. This book is essential reading for educational scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, and all those interested in exploring the application of Popperian philosophy to the field of education and re-envisioning educational practice.

Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge

Author : Deborah G. Mayo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226511979
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge by : Deborah G. Mayo

Download or read book Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge written by Deborah G. Mayo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-07-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface1: Learning from Error 2: Ducks, Rabbits, and Normal Science: Recasting the Kuhn's-Eye View of Popper 3: The New Experimentalism and the Bayesian Way 4: Duhem, Kuhn, and Bayes 5: Models of Experimental Inquiry 6: Severe Tests and Methodological Underdetermination7: The Experimental Basis from Which to Test Hypotheses: Brownian Motion8: Severe Tests and Novel Evidence 9: Hunting and Snooping: Understanding the Neyman-Pearson Predesignationist Stance10: Why You Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Bayesian 11: Why Pearson Rejected the Neyman-Pearson (Behavioristic) Philosophy and a Note on Objectivity in Statistics12: Error Statistics and Peircean Error Correction 13: Toward an Error-Statistical Philosophy of Science ReferencesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4

Author : Imre Lakatos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521078269
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4 written by Imre Lakatos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both agree upon the importance of revolutions in science, but differ about the role of criticism in science's revolutionary growth. This volume arose out of a symposium on Kuhn's work, with Popper in the chair, at an international colloquium held in London in 1965. The book begins with Kuhn's statement of his position followed by seven essays offering criticism and analysis, and finally by Kuhn's reply. The book will interest senior undergraduates and graduate students of the philosophy and history of science, as well as professional philosophers, philosophically inclined scientists, and some psychologists and sociologists.

All Life is Problem Solving

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135972982
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book All Life is Problem Solving written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the Preface All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.

In Search of a Better World

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135975086
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Better World written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course of the twentieth century. His subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects of twentieth century totalitarianism, from major figures of the Enlightenment such as Kant and Voltaire to the role of science and self-criticism in the arts. The essays offer striking new insights into the mind of one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers.

Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change

Author : K. Gavroglu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400930259
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change written by K. Gavroglu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How happy it is to recall Imre Lakatos. Now, fifteen years after his death, his intelligence, wit, generosity are vivid. In the Preface to the book of Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos (Boston Studies, 39, 1976), the editors wrote: ... Lakatos was a man in search of rationality in all of its forms. He thought he had found it in the historical development of scientific knowledge, yet he also saw rationality endangered everywhere. To honor Lakatos is to honor his sharp and aggressive criticism as well as his humane warmth and his quick wit. He was a person to love and to struggle with. The book before us carries old and new friends of that Lakatosian spirit further into the issues which he wanted to investigate. That the new friends include a dozen scientific, historical and philosophical scholars from Greece would have pleased Lakatos very much, and with an essay from China, he would have smiled all the more. But the key lies in the quality of these papers, and in the imaginative organization of the conference at Thessaloniki in summer 1986 which worked so well.

The Cambridge Companion to Popper

Author : Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521856450
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Popper written by Jeremy Shearmur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.

Karl Popper and the Social Sciences

Author : William A. Gorton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482219
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Karl Popper and the Social Sciences by : William A. Gorton

Download or read book Karl Popper and the Social Sciences written by William A. Gorton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length exploration of Karl Popper's often-neglected contributions to the philosophy of social science. William A. Gorton situates Popper's ideas on social inquiry within the broader framework of his thought, including his philosophy of natural science, his ontological theories, and his political thought. Gorton places special attention on Popper's theory of situational analysis and how it aims to heighten our understanding of the social world by untangling the complex web of human interaction that produces unintended—and often unwanted—social phenomena. Situational analysis, Gorton contends, involves a significant departure from the method of the natural sciences, despite Popper's plea for the unity of scientific method. Gorton also addresses some common misconceptions concerning Popper's stance toward economics and Marxism, making the provocative claim that contemporary analytical Marxism provides the best current example of Popperian social science put into practice.

The Myth of the Framework

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113597473X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Framework written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642096
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature of the object studied without judgement of a conscious entity or subject. Objectivity stands in contrast to subjectivity: an objective account is impartial, one which could ideally be accepted by any subject, because it does not draw on any assumptions, prejudices, or values of particular subjects. Stephen Gaukroger shows that it is far from clear that we can resolve moral or aesthetic disputes in this way and it has often been argued that such an approach is not always appropriate for disciplines that deal with human, rather than natural, phenomena. Moreover, even in those cases where we seek to be objective, it may be difficult to judge what a truly objective account would look like, and whether it is achievable. This Very Short Introduction demonstrates that there are a number of common misunderstandings about what objectivity is, and explores the theoretical and practical problems of objectivity by assessing the basic questions raised by it. As well as considering the core philosophical issues, Gaukroger also deals with the way in which particular understandings of objectivity impinge on social research, science, and art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Kuhn Vs. Popper

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231134286
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Kuhn Vs. Popper written by Steve Fuller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History of Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science

Author : Thomas J. Hickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964466500
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book History of Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science written by Thomas J. Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science" is a short history that examines the philosophies of science of Ernst Mach, Pierre Duhem, Rudolf Carnap, Willard Van Quine. Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Karl Popper, Alfred Lande, James Conant, Thomas Kuhn, Ernest Nagel, Dudley Shapere, Paul Feyerabend, Russell Hanson, Mary Hesse, David Bohm, Herbert Simon, Trygve Haavelmo, Welsey Mitchell, Max weber, Talcott Parsons, and George Lundberg. The principal thesis of the book are firstly the emergence of the contemporary pragmatism due to philosophers' reflections on the modern quantum theory, secondly the retarded condition of social science due to social scientists' fidelity to romanticism, and thirdly the newly emerging area of computerized artificial intelligence discovery systems. The three traditions of romanticism, positivism, and contemporary pragmatism are discussed in terms of four philosophy-of-science topics: the aim of science, scientific discovery and theory development, scientific criticism, and scientific explanation. The price is $10.00 US per copy, all taxes and shipping costs included. Add $6.00 US for shipping outside the U.S. Prepayment is required of all noninstitutional and nontrade buyers. Send purchase order or check prepayment to: Thomas J. Hickey, P.O. Box 229, Oak Park, IL 60303.

Popper Selections

Author : David W. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691072876
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Popper Selections written by David W. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sampling of the philosophical writings of Karl Popper includes discussions of rationalism, knowledge, human freedom, and the scientific method

The Philosophy of Karl Popper

Author : Herbert Keuth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521839464
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Karl Popper written by Herbert Keuth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Popper is one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Originally published in German in 2000, Herbert Keuth's book is a systematic exposition of Popper's philosophy covering the philosophy of science (Part 1); social philosophy (Part 2); and metaphysics (Part 3). More comprehensive than any current introduction to Popper, it is suitable for courses in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of social science.