Popper and After

Popper and After

card|diamond|A|50pxcard|spade|3|50pxcard|diamond|3|50pxStove provides examples and further evidence before finally turning to a brief, common-sense defense of scientific reasoning.Quote|Suppose I have come to know that P, "I hold just 999 of 1000 tickets in a fair lottery to be drawn tomorrow"; and suppose that, as a result of acquiring this knowledge, I have come to have a higher degree of belief than I had before in the proposition Q: "I will win the lottery tomorrow". Suppose that I am then reminded by someone of the fact that R, "It is logically possible that P be true and Q false"; and suppose I fully accept this truth, and add it to my stock of knowledge. I acknowledge, in other words, that although I hold nearly all tickets in this fair lottery, I might not win it. Suppose, finally, that on account of adding this truth R to my premise P, I come to have a "lower" degree of belief in Q than I had before being reminded of R.

In that case, it will be evident, I am being irrational, ... because R is a necessary truth, and hence its conjunction with P is logically equivalent to P itself, while two arguments cannot differ in logical value if their premises are logically equivalent and they have the same conclusion [emphasis original] .Stove modifies this argument to suit induction and concludes the book with some strong words regarding the climate of discourse in the philosophy of science current at the time of publication.

Reviews

*Agassi, Joseph. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/687483 Review] of "Popper and After" in "Philosophy of the Social Sciences" 15 (1985): 368–369.
*Champion, Rafe. [http://www.the-rathouse.com/AnythingGoes.html Review] of "Anything Goes".
*Moss, JMB. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/687483 Review] of "Popper and After" in "The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science" 35 (1984): 307–310.
*Patrícia Lança. 'The Perils of Showmanship: David Stove, Karl Popper'. "Salisbury Review" 19 (2001): 36–39.
*Windschuttle, Kieth, ' [http://www.sydneyline.com/Stove%20foreword.htm Science, nonsense and David Stove] '. "Quadrant" 42 (1998):10–16. [Also published as Foreword to "Anything Goes".]

ee also

*Australian realism
*History and philosophy of science

Notes

Core works referenced in "Popper and After"

*Feyerabend (1970). 'Consolations for the Specialist'. In Lakatos and Musgrave (eds).
*Feyerabend (1975). " [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8y-FVtrKeSYC&dq=feyerabend+against+method&pg=PP1&ots=vBSA9ZJs9B&sig=6F98zgzmqGqssm7BkktUU7tBIDY&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com.au/search%3Fhl%3Den%26as_qdr%3Dall%26q%3Dfeyerabend%2Bagainst%2Bmethod&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail Against Method] ". London: Verso Books.
*Hume (1739). "A Treatise of Human Nature". Edited by Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge. Oxford University Press, 1888.
*Hume (1740). "An Abstract of" ... "a Treatise of Human Nature". Edited by John Maynard Keynes and Piero Sraffa. Cambridge University Press, 1938.
*Hume (1742). 'Essays, Moral, Political and Literary'. In " [http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&id=Ks1eSstmsiMC&dq=%22the+philosophical+works+of+david+hume%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=wT8nz9Fk8N&sig=xvE5bJ3_SGj4R14tkenMO4s7pk4 The Philosophical Works of David Hume] ". 4 volumes. Edited by TH Green and TH Grose. London: Longman, Green, and Company, 1882.
*Hume (1748). "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Edited by Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge. Oxford University Press, 1893.
*Hume (1779). "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion". 2nd edition. Edited by Norman Kemp Smith. London: Thomas Nelson, 1947.
*Kuhn (1970a). "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". University of Chicago Press, 1962. 2nd enlarged edition, 1970.
*Kuhn (1970b). 'Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research'. In Lakatos and Musgrave (eds).
*Kuhn (1970c). 'Reflections on My Critics'. In Lakatos and Musgrave (eds).
*Kuhn (1977). "The Essential Tension", University of Chicago Press, 1977.
*Lakatos (ed.). "The Problem of Inductive Logic". Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1968.
*Lakatos (1968). 'Changes in the Problem of Inductive Logic'. In Lakatos (ed.).
*Lakatos (1970). 'Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes'. In Lakatos and Musgrave (eds).
*Lakatos (1971). 'History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions'. "Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science" 8 (1971).
*Lakatos (1976). "Proofs and Refutations". Cambridge University Press, 1976.
*Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds). " [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=svb20o7lIdcC&dq=criticism+and+the+growth+of+knowledge&pg=PP1&ots=Bk0oXdK5Ke&sig=hxvI3_UPpcojPeV9kwZISTMbWgc&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com.au/search%3Fhl%3Den%26as_qdr%3Dall%26q%3DCriticism%2Band%2Bthe%2BGrowth%2Bof%2BKnowledge%26btnG%3DSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge] ". Cambridge University Press, 1970.
*Popper (1957). 'Philosophy of Science: a Personal Report'. In Mac (ed.). "British Philosophy in the Mid-Century". London: Allen and Unwin, 1957.
*Popper (1959). "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", London: Hutchinson, 1959.
*Popper (1963). "Conjectures and Refutations", London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.
*Popper (1968). 'Theories, Experience, and Probabilistic Intuitions'. In Lakatos (ed.).
*Popper (1970). 'Normal Science and its Dangers'. In Lakatos and Musgrave (eds).
*Popper (1972). "Objective Knowledge". Oxford University Press, 1972.
*Popper (1974a). 'Autobiography'. In Schilpp (ed.).
*Popper (1974b). 'Replies to My Critics'. In Schilpp (ed.).
*Schilpp, Paul Arthur (ed.). "The Philosophy of Karl Popper". La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company, 1974.

External links

*David Charles Stove. [http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4118/dcs/popper/popper.html "Popper and After"] . Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982.
*David Charles Stove. [http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4118/dcs/hume/hume.html "Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism"] . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. [These full texts of Stove's work are provided via his literary executor, James Franklin.]

;Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
*Bird, Alexander. ' [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Thomas Kuhn] '. August 2004.
*Morris, William Edward. ' [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/ David Hume] '. July 2007.
*Preston, John. ' [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/ Paul Feyerabend] '. February 2007.
*Thornton, Stephen. ' [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/ Karl Popper] '. October 2006.

elect bibliography

*Gardner, Martin. ' [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/gardner_popper.html A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper] '. "Skeptical Inquirer" 25 (2001): 13–14.
*Panchen, Alec L. ' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pMCh0vCuAD0C&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=Popper+and+after+the+title+David+Stove&source=web&ots=7lW14_QtLl&sig=_idwKa8KyXXolvroArXYE9AMxEw&hl=en Popper and After] '. In "Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology". Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pages 308ff.
*Stove, David Charles. ' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yajVRpMVzLgC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=+%22'Cole+Porter+and+Karl+Popper:+The+Jazz+Age+in+the+Philosophy+of+Science'%22&source=web&ots=nV87gu1T-N&sig=iuutupGtumy08ASZ1q07EzyOSH8&hl=en Cole Porter and Karl Popper] : The Jazz Age in the Philosophy of Science'. In Anthony O'Hear (ed.). "Karl Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers". Routledge, 2004.
*Windschuttle, Keith. " [http://www.indiana.edu/~educy520/sec6342/week_07/windschuttle94_7_lg.pdf The Killing of History] ". Sydney: Macleay Press, 1994.


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