Karl Popper Critical Appraisals

Name: Karl Popper Critical Appraisals
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ISBN: 9780415319706

ISBN-10: 0415319706

ISBN-13: 9780415319706

Edition: 2004

Authors: Philip Catton, Graham MacDonald

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Offers new insights on key topics from some of Popper's most important work & is essential reading for students of Popper & anyone interested in political philosophy & the philosophy of science.

Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

A. J. Ayer was the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. His other books include Language, Truth, and Logicand Logical Positivism.Graham Macdonald is professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Among other publications, he is the editor of Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A. J. Ayer with His Replies.



Introduction




How Popper (might have) solved the problem of induction




Popper's conventionalism




Constructive criticism




The many faces of Popper's methodological approach to prediction




Popper versus analytical philosophy?




My adventure with Popper and Wittgenstein




An epistemic free-riding problem?




The role of experience in Popper's philosophy of science and political philosophy




Popper's politics : science and democracy




The open society revisited




Tribalism and the myth of the framework : some Popperian thoughts on the politics of cultural recognition