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Missing the target : the unhappy story of the criticisms of falsificationism
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Miller, David (2015) Missing the target : the unhappy story of the criticisms of falsificationism. In: El Legado de Karl Popper: a Veinte A˜nos de su Muerte [The Legacy of Karl Popper: Twenty Years after his Death], Valparaiso, Chile, 22-23 September 2014 pp. 55-97. ISBN 9789563587555. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
A few days after the twentieth anniversary of the death of Karl Popper (September 17, 1994), and a few days before the fiftieth anniversary of my first meeting with him (at the beginning of the Autumn term at the LSE in October 1964), my thoughts turn again to his most glorious successes in the epistemology and methodology of science, namely his subtle resolutions of the problems of demarcation and induction. In the eighty years that have elapsed since the presentation of these ideas in the original German text (Logik der Forschung) of The Logic of Scientific Discovery countless criticisms, large and small, have been adduced. Several of these criticisms undoubtedly expose defects that need correction, but it seems to me that almost all the black marks awarded are mere minor stains that are easily washed away. This applies especially to all those objections that depend essentially on the thesis that our knowledge, in order to be valid, demands some justification, be it partial and inconclusive. Although I have no hope that I shall be able to open eyes already closed, I plan to examine in this lecture some criticisms, recent and less recent, that have not to date been adequately dealt with. After all, an occasion designed to honour the memory of Karl Popper, and to celebrate his intellectual achievement, provides an opportunity, even an obligation, to expound his beautiful ideas as simply as possible, and to explain why so many of the prevailing criticisms miss their target. Nothing shows that Popper’s ideas are one and all correct, since they are not all correct, but I shall perhaps be able to make it evident that most of them are not mistaken in the respects in which they are commonly supposed to be mistaken.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||||
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| Alternative Title: | Errando al blanco : La historia desdichadade las críticas al falsacionismo | ||||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994, Knowledge, Theory of, Science -- Philosophy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Universidad de Valparaíso, Instituto de Filosofía | ||||||||
| ISBN: | 9789563587555 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 55-97 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | D.W. Miller, Karl-Popper-Archiv | ||||||||
| Description: | Original version of the conference paper prior to its translation into Spanish, which has been subsequently updated |
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| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||||
| Title of Event: | El Legado de Karl Popper: a Veinte A˜nos de su Muerte [The Legacy of Karl Popper: Twenty Years after his Death] | ||||||||
| Type of Event: | Other | ||||||||
| Location of Event: | Valparaiso, Chile | ||||||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 22-23 September 2014 | ||||||||
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