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Publication Date: 2007-01-01
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Miller, D. (2007). Overcoming the justificationist addiction . Discusiones Filosóficas, 8(11), 17–32. Retrieved from https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/discusionesfilosoficas/article/view/593
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It is a simple, though ancient, mistake in the theory of knowledge to think that justification, in any degree, is central to rationality, or even important to it. We must cut for ever the intellectual apron strings that continue to offer us spurious and unneeded security, and replace the insoluble problem of what our theories are based on by the soluble problem of how to expose their shortcomings. The paper will outline (not for the first time) the critical rationalism of karl popper, taking account of some recent criticisms. A brief discussion of the status of the laws of logic provides an illustration of the power of the critical approach.
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MAYO, D. G. (2006). ‘Critical Rationalism and Its Failure to Withstand Critical Scrutiny’. In C.Cheyne & J.Worrall, compiladores (2006), pp. 63–96. Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave. Dordrecht: Springer.
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__________. (1996). ‘What Use is Empirical Confirmation?’. Economics and Philosophy 12, 2, pp. 197–206.
__________. (2006). Out of Error. Further Essays on Critical Rationalism. Aldershot & Burlington VT: Ashgate.
__________. (2007). ‘The Objectives of Science’. Philosophia Scientiæ 11, 1, pp. 21–43.
MUSGRAVE, A. E. (1989). ‘Saving Science from Scepticism’. In D’Agostino & Jarvie (1989), pp. 297–323.
__________. (1999). Essays on Realism and Rationalism. Amsterdam & Atlanta GA: Rodopi.
NILSSON, J. (2006). ‘On the Idea of Logical Presuppositions of Rational Criticism’. In Jarvie, Milford, & Miller (2006), pp. 109–117.
POLANYI, M. (1967). The Tacit Dimension. Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
POPPER, K.R. (1934). Logik der Forschung. Vienna: Julius Springer Verlag. 2a edición 1966. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck). 10a edición, Popper (1994). Edición inglesa, Popper (1959).
__________. (1945). The Open Society and Its Enemies. Londres: George Routledge & Sons. 5a edición 1966. Londres: Routledge. Traducción española por Eduardo Loedel, 1957. La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos. Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós.
__________. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Londres: Hutchinson & Co. Traducción inglesa aumentada de Popper (1934). Traducción española por Víctor Sánchez de Zavala, 1962. La lógica de la investigación científica. Madrid: Editorial Tecnos.
__________. (1963). Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 5a edición 1989. Traducción española de Néstor Míguez, 1967. Conjeturas y refutaciones. Barcelona & Buenos Aires: Paidós.
__________. (1972). Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2a edición 1979. Traducción española por Carlos Solis Santos, 1974, 1982. Conocimiento objetivo. Madrid: Editorial Tecnos.
___________. (1974). ‘Intellectual Autobiography’. En Schilpp (1974), pp. 3-181. Se reimprimió como libro: Unended Quest (1976). Londres: Fontana. Traducción española de Carmen Garca Trevijano, 1977. Búsqueda sin término. Madrid: Tecnos.
SCHILPP, P. A., compilador (1974). The Philosophy of Karl Popper. La Salle IL: Open Court.
SCHRAMM, A. (2006). ‘Methodological Objectivism and Critical Rationalist “Induction”’. In Jarvie, Milford, & Miller (2006), pp. 245–263.
