Karl Popper's Science and Philosophy

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper. He contributed to a wide variety of fields in addition to the epistemology and the theory of scientific method for which he is best known. This book illustrates and evaluates the impact, both substantive and methodological, that Popper has had in the natural and mathematical sciences. The topics selected include quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, cosmology, mathematical logic, statistics, and cognitive science. The approach is multidisciplinary, opening a dialogue across scientific disciplines and between scientists and philosophers.

Autorentext

Zuzana Parusniková, Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the philosophy of science, most importantly on critical rationalism, and on the early modern philosophy, especially David Hume.

David Merritt, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; author or co-author of more than 400 articles and two books on astrophysics and philosophy of science.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION

Zuzana Parusniková: Karl Popper: His Philosophy and Science

PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

Olival Freire Junior and Flavio Del Santo: Popper and the Quantum Controversy

Yanhua Shih: Popper's experiment

Helge Kragh: Karl Popper and Modern Cosmology: His Thoughts and Their Impact

Anastasiia Lazutkina: Contemporary cosmology and Popper's methodological views

David Merritt: Progress in Cosmology: A Methodological Perspective

STATISTICAL TESTING AND LOGIC

Deborah Mayo: tba

Youngjo Lee and Yudi Pawitan: Popper and reasoning from his falsification to modern confirmation

David Binder and Thomas Piecha: Popper on Quantifcation and Identity Constantin C. Brîncu: Logical Maximalism and Quantum Mechanics

BIOLOGY

Denis Noble and Raymond Noble: Rehabilitation of Karl Popper's ideas on

evolutionary biology and the nature of biological science.

Philip G. Madgwick: Agency in Evolutionary Biology Hans-Joachim Niemann: Popper, Darwin, and Biology

MIND-BRAIN (COGNITIVE SCIENCE)

Peter Århem: Popper and the Mind-Brain Problem Joseph Agassi: The Place of the Mind in Nature

Nir Fresco: Objectivity, Intersubjectivity and Popper´s Three Worlds

Olga Marki: Popper´s Emergentism