Popper’s demarcation criterion is widely understood as an attempt to find the boundary between science and pseudo-science. But in his paper “Addressing Three Popular Philosophic…
Category: Critical Rationalism
In my posts on the problems of refutation, I’ve claimed that within a theory-to-theory comparison refutations and verifications/support are symmetrical. I showed that Popper actually…
For many years I was bothered by the idea that there was no such thing as verification or support in science. In this post, I…
In my last post, I went over Popper’s own argument for why an asymmetry between refutation and verification exists. To summarize Popper’s view: Universal statements…
In my last post, I discussed various problems (or rather pseudo-problems) with Popper’s epistemology around his concept of refutation/falsification. (For our purposes, we will treat…
Though I’ve always agreed with Popper-Deutsch epistemology conceptually, I’ve always been bothered by some aspects of how it seemed to handled refutations. Particularly, I’ve struggled…
In the next few posts, I’m going to address what I call the ‘problem of refutation.’ I’ve hinted at this problem in past posts, particularly…
I previously wrote about how the rational fallacies differ from the logical fallacies and how rational fallacies are far more important and more common than…
This is a short one. Popper said that we must: …[be] consciously critical of [our] theories which, for this reason, [we should try] to formulate…
In episode 38, Karl Popper has a radical theory of ‘dualistic evolution’ where behavior had to evolve first before physical evolutionary changes could be taken…