TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vengathanam, Manoj.
AU  - Vengathanam,Manoj
TI  - New Foundations for Science and Metaphysics: A Study on Karl Popper`s Philosophy of Science 
U1  - NT1998 23
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Bangalore
PB  - Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; POPPER`S PHILOSOPHY VERSUS LOGICAL POSITIVISM   Logical Positivism	..............................   Verifiability Principle	..............................   Strong Verifiability	..............................   Weak Verifiability	..............................   The Problem of Induction	..............................   The Logical Problem	..............................   The Psychological Problem..............................   Popper`s Approach to the Problem of Knowledge ........   Empiricism: Popper`s Criticism .........................   The Nature of Human Knowledge ...................   Dogmatic and Critical Thinking.......................   Scientific Knowledge        ..............................   Popper`s mdetemunism	..............................   Evolution and World 3	..............................   THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE                           ...............................	49   The Nature of Scientific Theories  ...............................	49   Essentialism                          ...............................	49   Instrumentalism                 ..............................	52   Theories as Conjectures     ...........................	54   The Problem of Demarcation         .............................	58  Falsifiability and Falsification         .............................	65  The Empirical Basis of Scientific Theories ...................	68   Universal and Existential Statements .................	69   Fries` Trilemma                .............................	70   Degrees of Testability                  .............................	73   Probability Statements and Falsification .......................	75  Classical, Subjective and Frequency  Interpretations of Probability ......................	76  The Propensity Theory of Probability ................	78   Falsification of Probability Statements ................	79   Corroboration of a Theory            ...............................	80   Truth and Verisimilitude               ...............................	82   SOCIAL SCIENCES                                    89  Natural and Social Sciences           .................................	89  Historicism                                     ................91   Plato                                    .................................	92   Hegel                                 ................................	96   Marx                                .................................	100   Historicism and Social Sciences .........................	105  The Unity of Method                    .................................	109   Open Society                               .................................	116       POPPER`S EPISTEMOLOGY AS CRITICAL RATIONALISM	125   Critical Rationalism                       ...............................	125   The Novelty of Popper`s Epistemology .......................	130   Physics and Metaphysics                ..............................	132   Popper and Contemporary Philosophy of Science .........	134   A Critical Appraisal                       .................................	136
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