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Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Problems of Philosophical Problem Solving: An Apologetic Beginning Overview of Popper?s Solution to the Problem of Objectivity Comments on the Problem Situation The Epistemological Problem The Metaphysical Problem The Linguistic Problem The Political Problem The Ethical Problem Chapter Two: Scientific Method and Objectivity Introduction Popper?s Solution to the Problem of Demarcation The General Logical Context Empirical Refutability Strictures on Scientific Testing Intersubjectivity and Repeatability Theory-ladenness and Conceiveability Consideration of Criticism Asymmetry Empirical Basis Repeatability Kripke and Intersubjectivity The Problem of Induction The Solution: Conjectural Knowledge The Four Problems of Induction The Logical Problem The Epistemological Problem The Methodological Problem The Metaphysical Problem: The Unifying Aspect of Popper?s Theory of Objectivity Popper?s Solution to the Metaphysical Problem Corollaries: Corroboration, Truth and Verisimilitude Corroboration Truth Verisimilitude Chapter Three: Cosmology and Propensity Introduction Popper?s Account of Propensity Physical Propensities, Probability, and tests Popper?s Early Treatment of Probability Von Mises? Frequency Interpretation Popper?s Frequency Theory of Probability The Propensity Theory of Probability Evolutionary Epistemology Neo-Darwinian Evolution: A Standard Account The Logic Of Evolution and Critical Rationalism No Guarantee Growth by Criticism Neo-Darwinism and Criticizability Historicity Organisms are Problem Solvers Genetic Basis Situational Logic Background Knowledge The Fundamental Difference: Towards an Evolutionary Ontology An Evolutionary Ontology World Three and Its Interactions The Objectivity of World Three Objective Propensities Concurrent with Language Propensity and Products Chapter Four: An Objective Social Order: Politics and Ethics Evolution and the Myth of the Framework Social Science Methodology Historicism Ethics
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902-1994.
Objectivity.
Science -- Methodology.
Cosmology.