Article ID: CBB520912685

Popper: Critical Rationalist, Conventionalist, and Virtue Epistemologist (2023)

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This article revisits Karl Popper’s falsificationist methodology with respect to three tasks. The first is to illuminate and systematize Popper’s methodological views in light of his core epistemological commitments. A second and related objective is to gauge which aspects of falsificationism should be identified as “conventionalist”—a label that Popper himself uses (albeit with qualifications) but that is compromised by and, thus, stands in need of elucidation because of Popper’s idiosyncratic understanding of conventionalism. Third, by elaborating Popper’s virtue-epistemological, dialogical model of rationality, I show how Popper’s conventionalism, fallibilism, and critical rationalism form a coherent system. This system allows Popper to accord science the status of a privileged source of knowledge—without naïve appeal to authority. My systematization of Popper’s views yields an intrinsically and exegetically more satisfactory reading of Popper’s falsificationism than usual presentations. Thanks to its marked flexibility and methodological liberalism, it bypasses many standard objections but still offers sound and relevant methodological advice. With its “virtue-methodological” thrust, Popper sketches an original and promising approach to methodology, the fertility of which deserves further exploration for contemporary debates.

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Authors & Contributors
Bovens, Luc
Díez, José A.
Fitelson, Branden
Grasshoff, Gerd
Hansson, Sven Ove
Hartmann, Stephan
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Foundations of Science
History of European Ideas
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Mimesis
Altrimedia Edizioni
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Epistemology
Falsification
History of philosophy of science
Induction
Theories of knowledge
People
Popper, Karl Raimund
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Bartley, William W.
Descartes, René
Feyerabend, Paul K.
Freud, Sigmund
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
17th century
19th century
21st century
Places
Europe
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