Friday, May 24, 2013

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science


Judul       : Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Penulis    : Stefano Gattei
Format    : pdf
Bahasa    : English
Sinopsis  :
Across seven decades of philosophical consideration, Popper elaborated a view at the same time coherent, rigorous, and unsteady, that sees in the constant struggle with problems the meaning and goal of life itself. His philosophy provides a middle way between two opposed authoritarian approaches to science and society: dogmatism and relativism. It offers an account of how scientific knowledge can be objective and rational without being certain, and without appealing to induction or grounding itself upon expert opinion, consensus, and authority of any kind. The core feature of Popper’s thought the key to understanding his ideas on objectivity and rationality, as well as on politics and society is that knowledge is nota form of justified belief. The majority of philosophers have regarded it thus: in their eyes, knowledge is justified belief—it is objective and rational if and only if it can be justified—and an argument is a justification if and only if it is rational and objective. It was this idea that, throughout the centuries, gave rise to the great foundationalist programmes that, in order to avoid infinite regress, appealed each time to the authority of reason or that of experience: indeed, we might read the great part of Western philosophy as the story of the rebellion against one authority or another, of the clash between competing authorities.

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KARL POPPER'S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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