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Details for article 59 of 126 found articles
| Title: |
Karl Popper, 1902-1994: Radical fallibilism, political theory, and democracy |
| Author: |
Eidlin, Fred |
| Appeared in: |
Critical review |
| Paging: | Volume 10 (1996) nr. 1 pages 135-153 |
| Year: |
1996 |
| Contents: |
Popper's philosophy of science represents a radical departure from almost all other views about knowledge. This helps account for serious misunderstandings of it among admirers no less than among adversaries. The view that knowledge has and needs no foundations is counterintuitive and apparently relativistic. But Popper's fallibilism is in fact a far cry from anti-realism. Similarly, Popper's social and political philosophy, although seemingly conservative in practice, can be quite radical in theory. And while Popper was an ardent democrat, his reasons for supporting democracy were so unusual that they may escape the problem posed for democratic theory by the political ignorance of the demos. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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