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Karl Jaspers and Karl Popper: the shared legacy (2019)

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Jaspers and Popper have nothing in common beyond the legacy of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy. Popper dismisses Jaspers ‘existentialism’ as nihilistic and historicist; Jaspers never cites Popper. Jaspers describes Kant as ‘the philosopher for me’; Popper is an unorthodox Kantian whose critical rationalism put the finishing touch to Kant. For Kant, knowledge is not a simple copy of reality, but begins with reason’s questioning. Jaspers and Popper too insist that theory has priority over observation. For Jaspers, ‘there is already theory in every fact’; for Popper, ‘every statement has the character of a theory’. Science begins with metaphysical Ideas which become scientific when tested in experience. They differ in Popper’s rejection of induction in favour of falsification, while Jaspers tacitly accepts induction.

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Authors & Contributors
Miller, David
Shaw, Jamie
Bianchini, Sara
Berardi, Nicola
Amato, Andrea
D'Agostino, Salvo
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Methodology of science; scientific method
Epistemology
Theories of knowledge
Induction
History of philosophy of science
Time Periods
20th century
Medieval
21st century
16th century
14th century
13th century
Places
Europe
China
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