Rethinking Popper. Edited by Zusanna Parusnikova and Robert S. Cohen

DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive blue cloth, near fine, appears unused. PARUSNIKOVÁ, ZUZANA / COHEN, ROBERT S., ed. . Rethinking Popper. Edited by Zusanna Parusnikova and Robert S. Cohen. Dordrecht]: Springer, 2009, vii, 431pp., . Boston studies in the philosophy of science v. 272. - In September 2007, more than 100 philosophers came to Prague with the determination to approach Karl Poppers philosophy as a source of inspiration in many areas of our intellectual endeavor. This volume is a result of that effort. Topics cover Poppers views on rationality, scientific methodology, the evolution of knowledge and democracy; and since Poppers philosophy has always had a strong interdisciplinary influence, part of the volume discusses the impact of his ideas in such areas as education, economics, psychology, biology, or ethics.The concept of falsification, the problem of demarcation, the ban on induction, or the role of the empirical basis, along with the provocative parallels between historicism, holism and totalitarianism, have always caused controversies. The aim of this volume is not to smooth them but show them as a challenge. - CONTENTS: pt. I, Reason, logic, science. Experience and perceptual belief / Alan Musgrave ; Critical rationalism and the principle of sufficient reason / Gunnar Andersson ; Ratio negativa, the Popperian challenge / Zuzana Parusniková ; Why, and to what extent, may a false hypothesis yeild the truth? / Stefano Gattei ; Proof versus sound inference / Nimrod Bar-Am ; A problem for Popper's fallibilism / Ladislav Kvasz and Eugen Zelenák ; Why advocate pancritical rationalism? / Darrell P. Rowbottom and Otávio Bueno ; Karl Popper and Hans Albert : the broad scope of critical rationalism / Vladimír Zeman -- pt. II, Epistemology, methodology, evolution. Problem-solving and the problem of induction / Donald Gillies ; Popper's fundamental misdiagnosis of the scientific defects of Freudian psychoanalysis / Adolf Grünbaum ; Popper on refutability : some philosophical and historical questions / Diego L. Rosende ; Popper's thesis of the unity of scientific method : method versus techniques / Carlos Verdugo ; Popper's analysis of the problems of induction and demarcation and Mises' justification of the theoretical social sciences / Natsuka Tokumaru ; Popper's theory of the searchlight : a historical assessment of its significance / Michel ter Hark ; From group selection to ecological niches : Popper's rethinking of evolution in the light of Hayek's theory of culture / Jack Birner. pt. III, Society, politics. Popperian individualism today / Anthony O'Hear ; Popper's continuing relevance / Ian Jarvie ; Open society and the European Union / Miloslav Bednár ; Open rationality : making guesses about nature, society and justice / Alain Boyer ; Logic and The open society : revising the place of Tarski's theory of truth within Popper's politicial philosophy / Alexander J. Naraniecki ; Popper and communitarianism : justification and criticism of moral standars / Harald Stelzer ; Popper's communitarianism / Jeff Kochan ; Re-examination of Popper's portrayal of Socrates / Herzl Baruch -- pt. IV, Ethics, economics, education. The moral underpinnings of Popper's philosophy / Noretta Koertge ; Critical rationalism and ethics / Jeremy Shearmur ; Popper's insights into the state of economics / Joseph Agassi ; Popper and Sen on rationality and economics : two (independent) wrong turns can be remedied with the same program / John Wettersten ; Popperian selectionism and its implications for education, or "what to do about they myth of learning by instruction from without?" / Joanna Swann ; Applying Popperian didactics / Michael Segre ; The difficulties with Popper's nontraditional conception of metaphysics / Musa Akrami ; Out of error : further essays on critical rationalism by David Miller / a review by Zuzana Parusniková. ISBN 9781402093371.