Volume 29, Number 19 · December 2, 1982
The Romantic Rationalist
By Jonathan Lieberson
Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by Karl R. Popper, edited by W.W. Bartley III
Rowman and Littlefield, III: Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics, 229 pp., $26.50
Karl Popper
by Anthony O'Hear
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 219 pp., $9.50 (paper)
In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
edited by Paul Levinson
Humanities, 352 pp., $25.00
Apart from his celebrated writings on the 'open society' and its enemies, Karl Popper is chiefly known as a logician of science who has denied that science employs induction, and who has claimed that what demarcates science from nonscience, in particular metaphysics, is that scientists seek the truth by vigorously trying to falsify their theories. This has become one of the most celebrated and controversial views of science to have been put forward during this century. In a previous article, I noted that vigorous objections have been raised to Popper's view, most recently in the book under review by Anthony O'Hear, and, as we shall see, there are strong reasons for questioning Popper's thesis.[1]
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