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Critical Rationalism and Trust in Science. [PDF]
Sci Educ (Dordr), 2022 AbstractIn this paper, I consider whether the critical rationalist philosophy of science may provide a rationale for trusting scientific knowledge. In the first part, I refer to several insights of Karl Popper’s social and political philosophy in order to see whether they may be of help in offsetting the distrust of science spawned by the COVID-19 ...
Chmielewski A.
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Love, Compassion and Reason in The Open Society and Its Enemies [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 One may say that The Open Society and Its Enemies (OS) offered in 1945 the first complete elaboration of the general approach proposed by Karl Popper, namely his ‘critical rationalism’, a bold generalization of the fallibilist falsificationism in the ...
Alain Boyer
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Karl Popper in Africa: Liberal-Communitarianism as Ideology for Democratic Social Reconstruction [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 This paper examines the liberal society that Popper lauds, that aims to be truly open, and discusses why another, more communitarian kind of society, particularly societies in Africa, may also reflect the quest for intellectual openness that is Popper’s ...
Oseni Taiwo Afisi
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The Metaphysics of Artifacts: a critical rationalist approach [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Artifacts are ubiquitous and influential in our world, but their nature and existence are controversial. Several theories have been proposed to explain the ontology of artifacts.
Alireza Mansouri, Emad Tayebi
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Critical rationalism and institutional change in Hayek [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Political EconomyThe institutional analysis promoted by F. A. Hayek seeks to understand how human action and coordination among individuals occur in an environment where the knowledge held by each person is incomplete and not fully transmittable.
EDUARDO ANGELI
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Shaftesbury as Popperian: critical rationalism before its time? Part II
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2016 Shaftesbury has assigned humor an unparalleled role within philosophy, which maybe encapsulated in the following tenets: (1) ridicule is the test of truth; (2) humor andgood humor have a habilitating function with regard to truth; (3) the most ...
Lydia Amir
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Shaftesbury as Popperian: critical rationalism before its time? Part I
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2016 Shaftesbury has assigned humor an unparalleled role within philosophy, which maybe encapsulated in the following tenets: (1) ridicule is the test of truth; (2) humor andgood humor have a habilitating function with regard to truth; (3) the most ...
Lydia Amir
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The empirical content of theories in judgment and decision making: Shortcomings and remedies [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 According to Karl Popper, we can tell good theories from poor ones by assessing their empirical content (empirischer Gehalt), which basically reflects how much information they convey concerning the world.
Andreas Glöckner +3 more
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Negative Reason and Anti-reason: Popper’s Critical Rationalism and Derrida’s Deconstruction [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2019 Popper and Derrida are two influential philosophers of different schools of thought in the second half of the twentieth century. In terms of epistemology, Popper belongs to the critical rationalism school and Derrida to the deconstruction approach.
Mehdi khabbazi kenari
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Studi sulla Formazione, 2014 The article presents four contemporary Italian philosophers of educations, that are inspirited by critical rationalism and it points out their critical function.
Franco Cambi
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