Editors:
- Contains an interaction of Musgrave’s views with a wide variety of his critics and admirers
- Brings together diverse aspects of Musgrave’s long-standing defence of realism and rationality
- Musgrave’s unique perspective on Karl Popper’s epistemology is both developed and scrutinized
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 20)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for scientific realism against all anti-realist accounts of science. His critical rationalism is drawn from the work of Karl Popper and stands opposed to inductivist and irrationalist methodologies. In defence of these positions, Musgrave’s writings have covered a wide range of topics in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, history of science, theories of truth, and economic theory. In this volume a group of internationally-renowned authors discuss themes that are relevant in one way or another to Musgrave’s work. This is not intended as a standard celebratory festschrift but rather as a new examination of topics of current interest in philosophy. The contributory essays are followed by responses from Alan Musgrave himself.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Otago, New Zealand
Colin Cheyne
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London School of Economics, UK
John Worrall
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rationality and Reality
Book Subtitle: Conversations with Alan Musgrave
Editors: Colin Cheyne, John Worrall
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4207-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4206-5Published: 23 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7072-2Published: 10 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4207-2Published: 25 July 2006
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 326
Topics: Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Science