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Karl Popper's Science and Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Zuzana Parusniková

    1. Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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  2. David Merritt

    1. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

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  • Impressively demonstrates Karl Popper's important and wide-ranging contribution to science

  • Illuminates past and present interactions between philosophy and science

  • Explores Popper's famous scientific methodology based on falsification

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Karl Popper: His Philosophy and Science

    • Zuzana Parusniková
    Pages 1-14

  3. Physics and Cosmology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Popper and the Quantum Controversy

      • Flavio Del Santo, Olival Freire Jr.
      Pages 17-35

    3. Popper’s Experiment

      • Yanhua Shih
      Pages 37-51

    4. Karl Popper and Modern Cosmology: His Thoughts and Their Impact

      • Helge Kragh
      Pages 53-68

    5. MOND and Methodology

      • David Merritt
      Pages 69-96

    6. The Application of Popperian Methodology to Contemporary Cosmology

      • Anastasiia Lazutkina
      Pages 97-117

  4. Statistical Testing and Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Popper’s Falsification and Corroboration from the Statistical Perspectives

      • Youngjo Lee, Yudi Pawitan
      Pages 121-147

    3. Popper on Quantification and Identity

      • David Binder, Thomas Piecha
      Pages 149-169

    4. Logical Maximalism in the Empirical Sciences

      • Constantin C. Brîncuş
      Pages 171-184

    5. The Role of Logic in Science

      • Nimrod Bar-Am
      Pages 185-190

  5. Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Rehabilitation of Karl Popper’s Ideas on Evolutionary Biology and the Nature of Biological Science

      • Denis Noble, Raymond Noble
      Pages 193-209

    3. Agency in Evolutionary Biology

      • Philip Madgwick
      Pages 211-230

    4. Popper, Darwin, and Biology

      • Hans-Joachim Niemann
      Pages 231-256

    5. The Arkansas Creationism Trial Forty Years On

      • Michael Ruse
      Pages 257-276

  6. Cognitive Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Popper on the Mind-Brain Relation

      • Peter Århem
      Pages 279-294
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About this book

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper. He contributed to a wide variety of fields in addition to the epistemology and the theory of scientific method for which he is best known. This book illustrates and evaluates the impact, both substantive and methodological, that Popper has had in the natural and mathematical sciences. The topics selected include quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, cosmology, mathematical logic, statistics, and cognitive science. The approach is multidisciplinary, opening a dialogue across scientific disciplines and between scientists and philosophers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

    Zuzana Parusniková

  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

    David Merritt

About the editors

Zuzana Parusniková, Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the philosophy of science, most importantly on critical rationalism, and on the early modern philosophy, especially David Hume.

David Merritt, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; author or co-author of more than 400 articles and two books on astrophysics and philosophy of science.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Karl Popper's Science and Philosophy

  • Editors: Zuzana Parusniková, David Merritt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67036-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67035-1Published: 21 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67038-2Published: 22 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67036-8Published: 19 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 367

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Cosmology, Philosophy of Mind

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