Karl Popper. Objective Knowledge

KARL POPPER The Problem of Induction

A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by step. In the field of the empirical sciences, more particularly, he constructs hypotheses, or systems of theories, and tests them against experience by observation and experiment. I suggest that it is the task of the logic of scientific discovery, or the logic of knowledge, t...

Karl Popper A Centenary Assessment

The Political Thought of Karl Popper by Jeremy

A nyone who reads Jeremy Shearmur’s book will be struck by the degree to which Popper’s vast output is an integrated work. In particular, Popper’s political thought is closely connected with his explanation of science. One of Popper’s more impressive achievements was to expose the authoritarian element in the Western intellectual tradition. For instance, traditional theories of knowledge addres...

Editorial Volume 7, Issue 1

JALDA, therefore, would like to show inclination towards the view that the reality of the world is not a fixed entity standing out there to be measured by our pre-fabricated ‘scientific’ instruments. In line with Haghshenas’ argumentation, not only can theories and instruments shrink to ornamental entities but also they can turn into what Karl Popper calls pseudo-science, knowledge of an ‘ideol...

Gödel, Kuhn, and Feyerabend

Thomas Kuhn [4] has presented a view of the history of science as a succession of “paradigms” which are not completely comparable with each other. Karl Popper [8] has attacked this view as being relativistic and denying that there is objective scientific truth. Popper seems to be saying that in order for science to be objectively true, every two scientific theories must be completely comparable...