Philosophy of the Social SciencesStokes, G. (1997). Karl Popper's political philosophy of social science. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 27(1), 56-79.Stokes, G (1997), "Karl Popper's Political Philosophy of Social Sciences", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol.27, 56-79...
of democratic liberalism as a social and political philosophy, and a devastating critique of the principal philosophical presuppositions underpinning all forms of totalitarianism. Thirdly, as we have seen, Popper was profoundly impressed by the differences between the allegedly ‘scientific’ theories of ...
Popper felt that he had identified innumerable problems in Marx's philosophy, and it is simply impossible to go into all of them here. (a) it is possible and appropriate to prophesies the future development of society by revealing overarching laws of historical development, (b) in order to ...
But Popper's fallibilism is in fact a far cry from anti?realism. Similarly, Popper's social and political philosophy, although seemingly conservative in practice, can be quite radical in theory. And while Popper was an ardent democrat, his reasons for supporting democracy were so unusual that...
Given Popper's personal history and background, it is hardly surprising that he developed a deep and abiding interest in social and political philosophy. However, it is worth emphasising that his angle of approach to these fields is through a consideration of the nature of the social sciences ...
criterion of falsifiability, in the philosophy of science, a standard of evaluation of putatively scientific theories, according to which a theory is genuinely scientific only if it is possible in principle to establish that it is false. The British philosopher Sir Karl Popper (1902–94) proposed...
It generated a lot of controversy, especially over its likely misreading of the best known work of political philosophy since the 4th Century BC, namely, Plato’s Republic .[1] I shall borrow Popper’s terms ‘open society’ and ‘closed society’ and will first try to make this a ...
The group's name is inspired by Karl Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies. El nom de la xarxa està inspirat en el llibre de Karl Popper de 1945 The Open Society and Its Enemies. WikiMatrix Critical rationalism is an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper. ...
The second essay in Gardner's book, "A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper" [pp.12-18], is a sharp, even a somewhat personal and dismissive, critique of Karl Popper's philosophy of science. Gardner is a well informed writer, but the personal dimension of his criticism seems in part to follo...
Still others criticize Marx from the perspective of philosophy of science. Karl Popper has criticized Marx's theories for not being falsifiable, which he believed rendered some aspects of Marx’s historical and socio-political argument unscientific; Popper's falsifiability standard, though very influenti...