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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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Postmodernism and Education in Nursing Science: The Case of Clinical Skills. [PDF]
Nurs PhilosABSTRACT During the development of theories that took place in the human and social sciences during the second half of the 20th century, when the current of postmodernism was particularly prevalent among French thinkers (French Theory), the human body preoccupied philosophy and sociology as a social construction in relation to other parameters such as ...
Nikolaou E +3 more
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Journal of culture and values in education, 2023 This conceptual article explores the profound impact of techno-rationalism on educational law in Southern African universities. It also examines the influence of techno-rationalism on equity, social justice and academic freedom within higher education in
Doniwen Pietersen +2 more
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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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Assessing the Epistemological Status of Certainty in Wittgenstein through the Lens of Critical Rationalism [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022 "Certainty" occupies an important place in Wittgenstein’s epistemology: it does not belong to the category of knowledge but constitutes its foundation.
Abdolhamid Mohammadi, Ali Paya
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Pragma-Dialetics Epistemologized: Reply to Lumer
Informal Logic, 2012 I would like to thank Christoph Lumer for his illuminating comments on my paper “The question of truth” published in this journal (Botting 2010) and would like to exercise my right of reply on a few of the issues that he raises.
David Botting
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Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Notwithstanding Karl Popper’s deep admiration for ancient Greece and his affection for modern Greece, his work has been mostly viewed with caution by Greek scholars who, until relatively recently, often chose to either ignore or downplay it.
Georgios Archontas
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