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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4
Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965
Häftad, Engelska, 1970
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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.
Common Sense, Science and Scepticism
A Historical Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
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Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of the senses. Sceptics object that the senses are not an adequate basis for certain knowledge. Other dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of pure reason. Sceptics object that rational self-evidence is no guarantee of truth. This book is an introductory and historically-based survey of the debate, siding for the most part with scepticism to show that the desire to vanquish it has often led to doctrines of idealism or anti-realism. Scepticism, science and common sense produce another view, fallibilism or critical rationalism: although we can have little or no certain knowledge, as the sceptics maintain, we can and do have plenty of conjectural knowledge. Fallibilism incorporates an uncompromising realism about perception, science, and the nature of truth.
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Der Band versammelt 15 Essays, die vermeintlich einfachen Fragen aus den Wissenschaften und ihren Erkenntnismöglichkeiten nachgehen, beispielsweise: Können wir entscheiden, was wir glauben wollen? Warum experimentieren Wissenschaftler und was zeigen ihre Experimente? Ist die Evolutionstheorie eine wissenschaftliche Theorie? Liefern theologische Ansichten Erklärungen? Wie hat Albert Einstein die Philosophie beeinflusst? Die Erörterungen setzen kein Spezialistenwissen voraus, sie stellen aber einige Selbstverständlichkeiten unserer alltäglichen Weltorientierung und unseres Blicks auf die Wissenschaften in Frage, indem die historischen Formen der Wissensgewinnung und (kritischer) Rationalität zum Vergleich herangezogen werden. Theorie und Geschichte der Wissenschaftsformen werden in diesen weltlichen Predigten auf der Grundlage kritisch-rationaler Untersuchung in einen Dialog gebracht. Predigten sind dies im Sinne allgemein verständlicher Auslegung komplexer Erkenntnisse und darin dem Vorbild Karl Popper folgend.