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Shaftesbury as Popperian: critical rationalism before its time? Part II
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
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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Negative Reason and Anti-reason: Popper’s Critical Rationalism and Derrida’s Deconstruction [PDF]
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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The empirical content of theories in judgment and decision making: Shortcomings and remedies [PDF]
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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This paper revisits some recent contributions on ‘Why Management Theory Needs Popper’ to the journal Philosophy of Management. It proposes that those discussions provided an appraisal of the relevance of Popper’s falsification schema to management theory,
Thomas, Rod
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Pragma-Dialetics Epistemologized: Reply to Lumer
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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The Neosentimentalist Argument Against Moral Rationalism: Some Critical Observations
On the basis of the empirical evidence concerning the role of emotions in moral judgments, new sentimentalist approaches to metaethics have been proposed.
Massimo Reichlin
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As Popper uses the word 'rationalism' in a wide sense which includes 'empiricism' as well as 'intellectualism', his concept of rationalist attitude is very similar to that of the scientific attitude which seeks to solve as many problem as possible by an ...
神野, 慧一郎
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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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In Defence of Critical Rationalism [PDF]
The early Greek philosophers invented the tradition of adopting critical attitude towards explanations that were robed in mythic garbs. They not only challenged the explanations of the ancients, they also criticized and falsified long standing traditions
Ishaya, Samuel Otu
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