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Index
Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition INTRODUCTION
On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance
CONJECTURES
1 Science: Conjectures and Refutations
Appendix: Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science
2 The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science 3 Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge
1 The Science of Galileo and Its Most Recent Betrayal 2 The Issue at Stake 3 The First View: Ultimate Explanation by Essences 4 The Second View: Theories as Instruments 5 Criticism of the Instrumentalist View 6 The Third View: Conjectures, Truth, and Reality
4 Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition 5 Back to the Presocratics
Appendix: Historical Conjectures and Heraclitus on Change
6 A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein 7 Kant’s Critique and Cosmology
1 Kant and the Enlightenment 2 Kant’s Newtonian Cosmology 3 The Critique and the Cosmological Problem 4 Space and Time 5 Kant’s Copernican Revolution 6 The Doctrine of Autonomy
8 On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics
1 Kant and the Logic of Experience 2 The Problem of the Irrefutability of Philosophical Theories
9 Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality? 10 Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
1 The Growth of Knowledge: Theories and Problems 2 The Theory of Objective Truth: Correspondence to the Facts 3 Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability 4 Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth 5 Three Requirements for the Growth of Knowledge Appendix: A Presumably False yet Formally Highly Probable Non-Empirical Statement
REFUTATIONS
11 The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics
1 Introduction 2 My Own View of the Problem 3 Carnap’s First Theory of Meaninglessness 4 Carnap and the Language of Science 5 Testability and Meaning 6 Probability and Induction
12 Language and the Body-Mind Problem
1 Introduction 2 Four Major Functions of Language 3 A Group of Theses 4 The Machine Argument 5 The Causal Theory of Naming 6 Interaction 7 Conclusion
13 A Note on the Body-Mind Problem 14 Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language 15 What is Dialectic?
1 Dialectic Explained 2 Hegelian Dialectic 3 Dialectic After Hegel
16 Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences 17 Public Opinion and Liberal Principles
1 The Myth of Public Opinion 2 The Dangers of Public Opinion 3 Liberal Principles: A Group of Theses 4 The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion 5 The Forms of Public Opinion 6 Some Practical Problems: Censorship and Monopolies of Publicity 7 A Short List of Political Illustrations 8 Summary
18 Utopia and Violence 19 The History of Our Time: An Optimist’s View 20 Humanism and Reason Addenda: Some Technical Notes
1 Empirical Content 2 Probability and the Severity of Tests 3 Verisimilitude 4 Numerical Examples 5 Artificial vs. Formalized Languages 6 A Historical Note on Verisimilitude (1964) 7 Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude (1968) 8 Further Remarks on the Presocratics, especially on Parmenides (1968) 9 The Presocratics: Unity or Novelty? (1968) 10 An Argument, due to Mark Twain, against Naïve Empiricism (1989)
Index of Mottoes Index of Names Index of Subjects
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