The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

by Notturno,M.A.

• ISBN13: 9780415135559
• ISBN10: 0415135559
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-01-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

'...[Popper's] championship of rational thought and his effective exposure of confusion and fanaticism in this region, and their often terrible consequences are a genuine asset of Western culture.' -- Sir Isaiah Berlin Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth-century discussion of science and rationality.The Myth of the Frameworkis a collection of some of Popper's most important materials on this subject. He offers his own critical rationalism, which he regards both as a theory of knowledge and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy.

Table of Contents

Author's note, 1993	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xii
The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions	1	(32)
The Myth of The Framework	33	(32)
Reason or Revolution?	65	(17)
Science: Problems, AIMS, Responsibilities	82	(30)
Philosophy and Physics	112	(9)
The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist	121	(9)
A Pluralist Approach to the Philosophy of History	130	(24)
Models, Instruments, and Truth	154	(31)
Epistemology and Industrialization	185	(25)
Editor's afterword	210	(3)
Bibliography	213	(2)
Name index	215	(5)
Subject Index	220