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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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