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Out of Error - Further Essays on Critical Rationalism (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Out of Error - Further Essays on Critical Rationalism (Hardcover, New Ed)
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If there has been some modest advance, since Karl Popper's death in
1994, in the general understanding of his critical rationalist
theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, there is still
widespread resistance both to it and to the recognition of the
magnitude of his contribution. Popper long ago diagnosed the
logical problems of traditional enlightenment rationalism (as did
some irrationalists), but instead of pretending that they are
readily solved or embracing irrational defeatism (as do
postmodernists), he provided a cogent and liberating rationalist
alternative. This book promotes, defends, criticizes, and refines
this alternative. David Miller is the foremost exponent of the
purist critical rationalist doctrine and here presents his mature
views, discussing the role that logic and argument play in the
growth of knowledge, criticizing the common understanding of
argument as an instrument of justification, persuasion or discovery
and instead advocating the critical rationalist view that only
criticism matters. Miller patiently and thoroughly undoes the
damage done by those writers who attack critical rationalism by
invoking the sterile mythology of induction and justification that
it seeks to sweep away. In addition his new material on the debate
on verisimilitude is essential reading for all working in this
field.
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