دانلود کتاب Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
1 Karl Popper: A Scientific Memoir
0 Introduction
1 In Vienna, 1902–1936
2 Logik der Forschung
3 In New Zealand, 1937–1945
4 At the LSE, 1946–1959
5 The Postscript
6 At the LSE, 1960–1969
7 In Retirement, 1969–1994
2 Three Stages of Critical Rationalism
0 Karl Popper
1 Epistemology and Methodology Contrasted
2 The First Stage: Fallibilism
3 The Second Stage: Negativism
4 The Third Stage: Scepticism
5 Conclusion
Addendum: Last Words on a Paradox
3 What Do Arguments Achieve?
0 Introduction
1 Traditional Answers
2 Partial Justification
3 Critical Argument
4 A Mistake to be Avoided
4 Falsifiability: More than a Convention?
0 Introduction
1 The Problem of Demarcation
2 The Principle of Empiricism
3 Interlude: The Uniformity of Nature
4 Popular Objections to the Demarcation Criterion
5 First Philosophy
6 Objectivism
Addendum 0: Popper’s Response to Duhem
Addendum 1: How Much We Disagree
5 Induction: A Problem Solved
0 A Warning
1 Popper on Applied Science
2 A Response to Popper’s Critics
3 Applied Science
4 Acceptance or Preference?
Addendum 0: An Objection
Addendum 1: Planning Ahead
6 Back to the Frying Pan
0 Introduction
1 Where Intellectual Impostures Fails
2 Authoritarian Rationalism
3 Radical Rationalism
4 Conclusion
7 Being an Absolute Sceptic
0 Absolute Scepticism
1 Scepticism is Not Relativism
2 Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
8 How Little Uniformity Need an Inductive Inference Presuppose?
0 A Problem
1 A Solution
2 A Generalization
Addendum 0: An Objection
Addendum 1: A Note of Caution
9 Critical Rationalism’s Debt to Tarski
0 Introduction
1 Tarski’s Theory of Truth
2 Criteria of Truth
3 Imperfect Correspondence
4 Concluding Remarks
10 Beauty: A Road to the Truth?
0 Introduction
1 Approximation to the Truth
2 Empirical Decidability
3 Kuipers on Beauty
4 McAllister on Beauty
Addendum 0: Support for Table 10.0
Addendum 1: Support for Table 10.1
11 Thirty Years of Language Dependence
0 Historical Introduction
1 A Tour of No Man’s Land
2 Unacceptable Relativism
3 Unacceptable Vocabulary, Acceptable Translations
4 Acceptable Vocabulary, Unacceptable Translations
5 Acceptable Relativism
6 Conclusion
12 Is Paraconsistent Logic Ever Used?
0 Introduction
1 The Azande
2 The Nuer
3 Discussion
13 Making Falsification Bite
0 Introductory Remark
1 The Logic of Inquiry
2 Summary of Falsificationism
3 Semantics for Brouwerian Logic
4 Conclusion
14 In Memoriam
Note
Bibliography
Index