Karl Popper, science and enlightenment

Karl Popper, science and enlightenment

Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only ref...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Maxwell, Nicholas, 1937- author (author), Maxwell, Nicholas (Otro)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : UCL Press 2017
2017.
Materias:
Popper, Karl R. > (Karl Raimund), > 1902-1994.
Science > Philosophy.
civilization
reason
karl popper
the enlightenment
science
intellectual revolution
education
Albert Einstein
Alberta Order of Excellence
Empiricism
Falsifiability
Metaphysics
Physicalism
Quantum mechanics
Scientific method
Theoretical physics
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424495206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Karl Raimund Popper
  • 2. Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and aim-oriented empiricism
  • 3. Einstein, aim-oriented empiricism, and the discovery of special and general relativity
  • 4. Non-empirical requirements scientific theories must satisfy: simplicity, unity, explanation, beauty
  • 5. Scientific metaphysics
  • 6. Comprehensibility rather than beauty
  • 7. A mug's game? Solving the problem of induction with metaphysical presuppositions
  • 8. Does probabilism solve the great quantum mystery?
  • 9. Science, reason, knowledge and wisdom: a critique of specialism
  • 10. Karl Popper and the Enlightenment Programme
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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