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Conjectures and refutations : the growth of scientific knowledge /
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| Médium: | Printed Book |
| Jazyk: | English |
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London : New York :
Routledge,
c2002.
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- Introduction--Conjecture--Science: Conjectures and refutations--Nature of philosophical problems and their roots in science--Three views concerning human knowledge--Towards a rational theory of tradition--Back to the presocratics--Note on Berkeley as precursor of mach and Einstein--Kant's critique and cosmology--On the status of science and of metaphysics--Why are the calculi of logic and arithmetic applicable to reality----Truth, rationality and the growth of scientific knowledge--Refutations--Demarcation between science and of metaphysics--Language and the body-mind problem--Note on the body-mind problem--Self-reference and meaning in ordinary language--What is dialectic?--Prediction and prophecy in the social sciences--Public opinion and liberal principles--Utopia and violence--History of our time--Humanism and reason.