Yafeng Shan is Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His recent books include History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2026), Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy (2024), Alternative Approaches to Causation (2024), Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research (Routledge, 2024), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (Routledge, 2022), and Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020).

This volume revisits and explores Popper’s legacy for contemporary philosophy of science by developing Popper’s important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigating new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Popper’s work.

• 1. The Future is Open: Popperian Legacy for the Philosophy of Science Yafeng Shan 2. The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper’s Anti-inductivism John D. Norton 3. Two Roots of Institutional Individualism: Karl Popper and Ernest Gellner Kei Yoshida 4. Types of Mistakes in Science and Their impact on Popper’s Notion of Verisimilitude Óscar L. González-Castán 5. Popper’s World 3 from Philosophy of Mathematics to the Internet Donald Gillies 6. Is Popper Still Relevant to Social Science? Three Worlds Updated Stephen Turner 7. The Social Demarcation of Science: Taking Critical Rationalism to the 21st Century Nimrod Bar-Am 8. Poppers Naturalistic Fallibilism: An Optimistic Proposal in the Face of Human Cognitive Vulnerability Ángeles J. Perona 9. Trust in Science and Public Gullibility: A Critical Rationalist Approach Adam Chmielewski 10. Popper and the New Enlightenment* Zuzana Parusniková

Yafeng Shan is Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His recent books include History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2026), Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy (2024), Alternative Approaches to Causation (2024), Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research (Routledge, 2024), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (Routledge, 2022), and Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020).

This volume revisits and explores Popper’s legacy for contemporary philosophy of science by developing Popper’s important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigating new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Popper’s work.

• 1. The Future is Open: Popperian Legacy for the Philosophy of Science Yafeng Shan 2. The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper’s Anti-inductivism John D. Norton 3. Two Roots of Institutional Individualism: Karl Popper and Ernest Gellner Kei Yoshida 4. Types of Mistakes in Science and Their impact on Popper’s Notion of Verisimilitude Óscar L. González-Castán 5. Popper’s World 3 from Philosophy of Mathematics to the Internet Donald Gillies 6. Is Popper Still Relevant to Social Science? Three Worlds Updated Stephen Turner 7. The Social Demarcation of Science: Taking Critical Rationalism to the 21st Century Nimrod Bar-Am 8. Poppers Naturalistic Fallibilism: An Optimistic Proposal in the Face of Human Cognitive Vulnerability Ángeles J. Perona 9. Trust in Science and Public Gullibility: A Critical Rationalist Approach Adam Chmielewski 10. Popper and the New Enlightenment* Zuzana Parusniková