Karl Popper’s Science and Philosophy

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Parusniková, Zuzana
Karl Popper: His Philosophy and Science.
Karl Popper’s Science and Philosophy. Cham: Springer, 2021 - (Parusniková, Z.; Merritt, D.), s. 1-14. ISBN 978-3-030-67035-1
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Keywords : Science * Progress * Criticism
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Karl Popper is one of the few philosophers of science who is well-known to scientists and respected by them. Apart from the direct influence of his views on science it is his methodology that most appeals to scientists. He earned the highest accolades for his emphasis on criticism as the essence of progress in science. His methodological principle of criticism is the core of a dynamic epistemology, requiring an adventurous spirit and expressing the high-risk nature of the cognitive process. Via the falsification of proposed hypotheses, the positive role of erring is exploited to further the discovery of new problems, leading to the growth of knowledge. Despite various criticisms of his imperative of falsification I claim that Popper proposes an original model of rationality rid of all justificationist ingredients, in which he divorces reason from positive reasons, truth from certainty and argument from belief. In this challenging philosophical vision Popper defines reason in negative terms, as an agent of destruction of knowledge claims, and views all knowledge as conjectural, hypothetical and provisional.
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