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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN PHILOSOPHY POPPER AND HIS P...

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.

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