Stability of the biological science: toward an evolutionist epistemology, without refutations and revolutions

Stability of the Biological Science. toward an Evolutionist Epistemology, without Refutations and Revolutions

Popper, not believing in the possibility of the existence of a truth criteria, proposes a falsiable one. Knowledge would not be formed through generalizations from the experiment, but through the elaboration of high empiric content conjectures that would be submitted to deductive logics (based on modus tolles) and experiment. Popper, under Humean influence, denies any role of induction in knowl...

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

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The Biological and Evolutionist Bases of Ethics

Toward an epistemology of Wikipedia

Wikipedia (the “free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit”) is having a huge impact on how a great many people gather information about the world. So, it is important for epistemologists and information scientists to ask whether or not people are likely to acquire knowledge as a result of having access to this information source. In other words, is Wikipedia having good epistemic consequenc...

Science: Conjectures and Refutations

“Mr. Turnbull had predicted evil consequences, . . . and was now doing the best in his power to bring about the verification of his own prophecies.” ANTHONY TROLLOPE _____________________________ A lecture given at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in Summer 1953, as part of a course on Developments and trends in contemporary British philosophy, organized by the British Council; originally published under...