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Popper's Darwinian analogy [PDF]
Perspectives on Science, 2011 One of the most deeply entrenched ideas in Popper's philosophy is the analogy between the growth of scientific knowledge and the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection. Popper gave his first exposition of these ideas very early on.
Nanay, Bence
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Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 The reception and influence of Popper’s philosophy of science and his political philosophy in Latin America have depended heavily on the translation of his major works originally published in German and English. Thus, for example, The Logic of Scientific
Carlos Verdugo-Serna
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The Effects of Critical Rationalism on the Development of Critical Thinking Abilities; A Case Study with Senior High School Students in Manizales, Colombia [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Fostering critical thinking among senior high school students in Colombia has been an unfulfilled goal. This undesirable situation has multiple causes: “critical thinking” has become a mere slogan and its meaning and scope have not been clearly specified
Carlos-Emilio García-Duque +1 more
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Popper’s Open Society and Its Problems [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 After offering an overview of some of the main themes of Popper’s political thought, the paper argues that his account faces two problems relating to institutions. The first is that while Popper stresses the ‘rational unity of mankind’, and the potential
Jeremy Shearmur
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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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Information Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems: Generic, Utility-Aware Optimization Middleware
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 This work addresses the problem of what information is worth sending in a multi-robot system under generic constraints, e.g., limited throughput or energy. Our decision method is based on Monte Carlo Tree Search.
Michał Barciś +4 more
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Is it more reasonable for a critical rationalist to be non-religious? [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 This paper argues that it is not reasonable for a critical rationalist to be a religious believer in the Abrahamic tradition. The argument is distinctive, in that it takes seriously the critical rationalist view that we should abandon ‘justificationist ...
Jeremy Shearmur
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Is the later Wittgenstein Falling into the Abyss of Relativism? an assessment through the lens of critical rationalism [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022 The later Wittgenstein presents all kinds of knowledge in the form of language games based on forms of life. One of the implications of his later views is that certain language games and forms of life are incommensurable.
Abdolhamid Mohammadi, Ali Paya
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Popper and Likelihood Versus “Popper*” [PDF]
Systematic Biology, 2001 PTP is just Faith's name for the permutation test that Archie introduced in 1985 (see Legendre, 1986:137; cf. Archie, 1989). Now seldom used, the test does not even provide a reliable indication of phylogenetic structure in data (Kallersjo et al., 1992; Farris et al., 1994; Carpenter et al., 1998), and interpreting PTP as corroboration leads to ...
J S, Farris, A G, Kluge, J M, Carpenter
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BMJ Case Reports, 2016 We present a case of a 52-year-old man with sudden, bilateral central loss of vision as a result of inhalation of ‘poppers’. He was found to have characteristic changes on optical coherence tomography. With conservative treatment, the patient's vision improved marginally at 3 months follow-up. An overview of previous published cases is also included.
Joshua, Luis +2 more
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