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The purpose is to highlight the theoretical process from Popper's application of the Münchhausen trilemma to the recognition of the inter-subjective character of science and the establishment of falsifiability as the paradigm of... more
O propósito deste texto é abordar as diferenças (e semelhanças, pois é claro que elas também existem) entre jornalismo científico e divulgação científica. Não se pretende especificar uma mídia, pois é premissa que as ideias aqui... more
Prevailing views about what constitutes organisational knowledge need to be systematically evaluated at deep epistemological levels. We argue there is a need is to establish a new paradigm comprising of both a theoretical and an... more
Starting from Karl Löwith’s Mitanthropologie, my paper aims to put forward a principle disappointability conceived as a “trust gradient” for the interhuman dimension. Löwith’s Mitanthropologie develops a taxonomy of the different binary... more
Course Description & Aim The rise of National Socialism to power prompted an unprecedented large-scale exodus of Central European scholars who have had an enormous impact on American cultural life in particular, and the post-World War II... more
En el presente ensayo haré una breve semblanza de la impotencia metafísica y teológica y el positivismo como alternativa para la revolución en el trabajo de Auguste Comte 1 , así como una del racionalismo e irracionalismo como lo delimita... more
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) is considered the founder of modern philosophy. Profoundly influenced by the new physics and astronomy of Kepler and Galileo, Descartes was a scientist and mathematician whose most long-lasting contributions... more
Karl Popper’s conception of methodology and its relationship to epistemology is examined, and found wanting. Popper argues that positivist criteria of demarcation fail because they are attempts to discover a difference in the natures of... more
Le falsificationnisme dogmatique accepte la falsifiabilité de toutes les théories scientifiques sans réserve, mais conserve une base empirique infaillible. Il est strictement empirique sans être inductif : il nie que la certitude de la... more
Da Pirrone a Rorty, passando per Socrate, Carneade, Cicerone, Giovanni di Salisbury, Guicciardini, Montaigne, Sorbière, Pascal, Bayle, Hume, Nietzsche, Russell, Rensi, Oakeshott e Popper: il volume offre per la prima volta un quadro... more
Monográfico "Una nueva mirada sobre Karl Popper", Ápeiron, 6, 2017, publicado también como libro. Incluye estudio bibliográfico exhaustivo sobre fuentes primarias de Popper (junto con sus traducciones al inglés, alemán y español), la... more
Why is astrology not a science? In this short essay I attempt to answer the problem of a demarcation criterion that will answer this question.
"Understanding Scientific Progress constitutes a potentially enormous and revolutionary advancement in philosophy of science. It deserves to be read and studied by everyone with any interest in or connection with physics or the theory of... more
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of Luc Boltanski’s account of the multifaceted relationship between mysteries, conspiracies, and inquiries in modern societies. It is striking that, although this important... more
In a recent blog-post Massimo Pigliucci discussed the case of philosophical counselling and addressed some criticisms that it was a pseudo-science. Pigliucci addressed these criticisms in a balanced manner and his responses were largely... more
ARKA KAPAK YAZISI Özgürlük nedir ve bugün özgürlüğün karşılaştığı başlıca tehditler nelerdir? Bu sorular ve daha fazlası, Svendsen'in çağdaş toplumda özgürlüğün doğasına ilişkin bu kapsamlı incelemesinde tartışılmaktadır. Konuya geniş... more
Dies ist keine Welt der Bestätigung von Wahrheiten, sondern eine Welt der Widerlegung von Irrtümern. Aber es gibt die Welt, und es gibt auch die Wahrheit; nur Sicherheit über Welt und Wahrheit kann es nicht geben. Kreuzer: Ich möchte auf... more
"In this book, the words ‘science’ and ‘social science’ are used in their limited sense that refer to experience-based knowledge. This should not indicate that experience is being used in a positivistic sense. Rather, the important... more
Slides to accompany the paper of the same title.
Esta es la segunda de dos entradas donde estamos proponiendo lo que consideramos pueden ser componentes del pensamiento computacional. Con ello pretendemos realizar una redefinición de un dominio teórico específico dentro de las teorías... more
Control de Lectura – Popper, K. Adorno, T. (2013) La Lógica de las ciencias sociales. Ed. Colofón, México, pp. 11-71.
In this unit, students will be introduced to the basic concepts, questions, thinkers, and history of philosophy of science. The unit begins with the historical background. In this section of the unit, students will learn about various... more
Karl Popper, as a critical rationalist, was an opponent of all forms of skepticism, conventionalism and relativism in science. A major argument of Popper is Hume's critique of induction, arguing that induction should never be used in... more
1. Einleitung .............................................................................................2 1.1 Managementlehre ....................................................................3 1.2 System-Methodik... more
Por "cientificismo" refiro-me à tese de que todos os problemas cognitivos são melhores resolvidos adotando uma abordagem científica, também chamada de "método científico", "espírito da ciência" e "atitude científica". Embora a maioria dos... more
I am planning a history of the notion of philosophical nonsense and naturally difficult historical and exegetical questions have come up. Charles Pigden has argued that the notion goes back at least as far as Hobbes and that Locke,... more
Karl R. Popper, 20. Yüzyılın Britanyalı bilim felsefecisidir. Viyana’da doğmuş ve düşünce yapısının temelleri burada atılmıştır. Entelektüel bir ailede yetişmesinin yanı sıra şahit olduğu dünya savaşlarının getirdiği krizler fikirlerinin... more
This verbose reflection began as a letter of apologia to my friend and mentor Bob Merton, just before his death in 2003. As such letters go, it is no OTSOG; but it may be of some general interest as a period piece describing what it was... more
En el presente artículo se estudia el falsacionismo de Karl Popper, como metodología de contrastación de hipótesis, prestando vital importancia a su carácter demarcativo en lo que es ciencia y lo que no. Para ello también se ha hecho un... more
En este artículo atendemos al patente desencanto con la democracia en nuestras democracias liberales y señalamos algunas paradojas a las que se enfrentan nuestras democracias. Se concentran en una paradoja intuida por John Stuart Mill y... more
O objetivo do presente artigo é apresentar, sucintamente, uma possível consequência da solução de Popper para o Problema da Demarcação da Ciência. Como contraposição, apresentamos algumas ideias de Ernst Mayr, famoso e respeitado biólogo,... more