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- Karl Popper
- Talking Philosophy
- Karl Popper
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Popper, Science and Rationality
- 2 Popper and Reliabilism
- 3 The Problem of the Empirical Basis
- 4 ‘Revolution in Permanence’: Popper on Theory-Change in Science
- 5 Popper’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Probability
- 6 Propensities and Indeterminism
- 7 Popper on Determinism
- 8 Popper and the Quantum Theory
- 9 The Uses of Karl Popper
- 10 Popper and Darwinism
- 11 Popper and the Scepticism of Evolutionary Epistemology, or, What Were Human Beings Made For?
- 12 Does Popper Explain Historical Explanation?
- 13 The Grounds for Anti-Historicism
- 14 What Use is Popper to a Politician?
- Works of Karl Popper Referred to in the Text
- Index
9 - The Uses of Karl Popper
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2024
- Karl Popper
- Talking Philosophy
- Karl Popper
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Popper, Science and Rationality
- 2 Popper and Reliabilism
- 3 The Problem of the Empirical Basis
- 4 ‘Revolution in Permanence’: Popper on Theory-Change in Science
- 5 Popper’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Probability
- 6 Propensities and Indeterminism
- 7 Popper on Determinism
- 8 Popper and the Quantum Theory
- 9 The Uses of Karl Popper
- 10 Popper and Darwinism
- 11 Popper and the Scepticism of Evolutionary Epistemology, or, What Were Human Beings Made For?
- 12 Does Popper Explain Historical Explanation?
- 13 The Grounds for Anti-Historicism
- 14 What Use is Popper to a Politician?
- Works of Karl Popper Referred to in the Text
- Index
Summary
Karl Popper’s work is of great diversity. It touches on virtually every intellectual activity. But he himself considered his philosophy of science one of his most important achievements. And indeed his achievement here is revolutionary. It destroyed the philosophy of inductivism which held sway over science for hundreds of years.
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- Karl Popper , pp. 282 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024