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Popper and the Human Sciences

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Gregory Currie

    1. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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  2. Alan Musgrave

    1. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series (NIPS, volume 19)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Third World Epistemology

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 1-12

  3. Psychoanalysis, Pseudo-Science and Testability

    • Frank Cioffi
    Pages 13-44

  4. Popper and the Mind-Body Problem

    • Roland Puccetti
    Pages 45-55

  5. Social Facts and Psychological Facts

    • David Papineau
    Pages 57-71

  6. Methodological Individualism: An Incongruity in Popper’s Philosophy

    • A. F. Chalmers
    Pages 73-87

  7. Popper and Liberalism

    • Alan Ryan
    Pages 89-104

  8. Making Sense of Critical Dualism

    • Jeremy Waldron
    Pages 105-119

  9. Beyond Cultural Relativism

    • Noretta Koertge
    Pages 121-131

  10. Good and Bad Arguments Against Historicism

    • Peter Urbach
    Pages 133-146

  11. Popper’s Critique of Marx’s Method

    • W. A. Suchting
    Pages 147-163

  12. Popper and German Social Philosophy

    • Robert Ackermann
    Pages 165-183

  13. Socrates and Democracy

    • Richard Kraut
    Pages 185-203

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 205-219
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About this book

Although Sir Karl Popper's contributions to a number of diverse areas of philosophy are widely appreciated, serious criticism of his work has tended to focus on his philosophy of the natural sciences. This volume contains twelve critical essays on Popper's contribution to what we have called the 'human sciences' , a category broad enough to include not only Popper's views on the methods of the social sciences but also his views on the relation of mind and body, Freud's psychology, and the status of cultural objects. Most of our contributors are philosophers whose own work stands outside the Popperian framework. We hope that this has resulted in a volume whose essays confront not merely the details of Popper's argu­ ments but also the very presuppositions of his thinking. With one exception, the essays appear here for the first time. The exception is L.J. Cohen's paper, which is a revised and considerably expanded ver­ sion of a paper first published in the British Journalfor the Philosophy of Science for June 1980. We would like to thank Loraine Hawkins and Jane Hogg for their editorial assistance and June O'Donnell for typing various manuscripts and all the correspondence which a volume of essays entails.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Gregory Currie, Alan Musgrave

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Popper and the Human Sciences

  • Editors: Gregory Currie, Alan Musgrave

  • Series Title: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5093-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2998-2Published: 28 February 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3141-1Published: 28 February 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5093-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4530

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 225

  • Topics: Philosophy of Man, Modern Philosophy

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