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Rationality in Science and Politics

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Gunnar Andersson

    1. Universität Trier, Germany

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 79)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Creativity and Criticism in Science and Politics

    • Gunnar Andersson
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Social Base of Scientific Theory and Practice

    • Joseph Agassi
    Pages 15-28

  4. Transcendental Realism and Rational Heuristics: Critical Rationalism and the Problem of Method

    • Hans Albert
    Pages 29-46

  5. How to Accept Fallible Test Statements? Popper’s Criticist Solution

    • Gunnar Andersson
    Pages 47-68

  6. Logical Strength and Demarcation

    • W. W. Bartley III
    Pages 69-93

  7. Xenophanes: A Forerunner of Critical Rationalism?

    • Paul K. Feyerabend
    Pages 95-109

  8. The Social Roots of Modern Egalitarianism

    • Ernest Gellner
    Pages 111-130

  9. Explication and Implications of the Placebo Concept

    • Adolf Grünbaum
    Pages 131-158

  10. Analytic and Synthetic Philosophy

    • B. Kanitscheider
    Pages 159-190

  11. Ethical Problems in Science Communication

    • Noretta Koertge
    Pages 191-203

  12. A Philosophical Conception of Finality in Biology

    • Hiroshi Nagai
    Pages 205-219

  13. The Justification of Scientific Progress

    • Marcello Pera
    Pages 221-243

  14. Against Induction: One of Many Arguments

    • Karl R. Popper
    Pages 245-247

  15. The Problem of Ideology and Critical Rationalism

    • Kurt Salamun
    Pages 249-260

  16. Poincaré Versus Le Roy on Incommensurability

    • Irena Szumilewicz-Lachman
    Pages 261-275

  17. On Early Forms of Critical Rationalism

    • Ernst Topitsch
    Pages 277-287

  18. Gerard Radnitzky: From Positivism, Via Critical Theory, to Critical Rationalism

    • Gunnar Andersson
    Pages 289-295

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 297-307
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This remarkable collection of essays, diverse but united by the theme of critical reasoning, testifies to the attention and respect paid by the authors to the philosophical career of Gerard Radnitzky. We, too, greet Professor Radnitzky for his decades of intellectual labor devoted to the establishment of rational analysis of human problems. Not least of his concerns has been to understand what it is to be rational, to disentangle the apparently rational and the genuine, to separate dogma from justified belief, to cherish imagination while seeking its test. If Radnitzky has long been known for his careful elaboration of the spectrum of modem approaches to epistemology, those who have gathered to celebrate his work in this volume will also be widely known for their own writings on this matter of critical methodology. Their signposts (or are they warning lights?) will be familiar to thoughtful philosophers and scientists, and they appear as queries as we read these papers: the rational heuristic and the irrational heuristic? accepting the fallible? differing societies but one rational cognitive practice? accepting evidence which is placebogenic? choosing among the incommensurables? what remains of the logic of demarcation? purpose in nature? progress of science? rationality in politics? a humane reasonableness and a critical rationalism? Gunnar Andersson sets the focus well for the reader. We need not choose between dogmatism and relativism, he argues. And then he tells the political lesson: we might avoid both anarchy and despotism.

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  • Universität Trier, Germany

    Gunnar Andersson

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