This volume revisits and explores Popper’s legacy for contemporary philosophy of science. It develops Popper’s important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigates new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Popper’s work.
This volume revisits and explores Popper’s legacy for contemporary philosophy of science. It develops Popper’s important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigates new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Popper’s work.
Karl Popper (1902-1994) is regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. He famously proposed that falsifiability is the genuine virtue of science and the criterion of the scientific status of a theory. Based on this, he developed a systematic account of scientific method and scientific development, namely, falsificationism. Moreover, Popper wrote on a variety of topics, including evolutionary biology, methodological individualism, and probability. However, Popper’s legacy on contemporary philosophy of science is surprisingly thin. This volume develops a Popperian philosophy of science for the 21st century. The chapters examine the problem of induction, the demarcation problem, the notion of verisimilitude, critical rationalism, methodological individualism, as well as the relevance and implications of Popper's ideas for the philosophy of the natural and social sciences from new perspectives.
Karl Popper and the Open Future of the Philosophy of Science will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in the history and philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and 20th-century philosophy.
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This volume revisits and explores Poppers legacy for contemporary philosophy of science by developing Poppers important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigating new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Poppers work.
1. The Future is Open: Popperian Legacy for the Philosophy of Science
Yafeng Shan
2. The Rise and Fall of Karl Poppers Anti-inductivism John D.
Norton
3. Two Roots of Institutional Individualism: Karl Popper and Ernest
Gellner Kei Yoshida
4. Types of Mistakes in Science and Their impact on
Poppers Notion of Verisimilitude Óscar L. González-Castán
5. Poppers World
3 from Philosophy of Mathematics to the Internet Donald Gillies
6. Is Popper
Still Relevant to Social Science? Three Worlds Updated Stephen Turner
7. The
Social Demarcation of Science: Taking Critical Rationalism to the 21st
Century Nimrod Bar-Am
8. Poppers Naturalistic Fallibilism: An Optimistic
Proposal in the Face of Human Cognitive Vulnerability Ángeles J. Perona
9.
Trust in Science and Public Gullibility: A Critical Rationalist Approach Adam
Chmielewski
10. Popper and the New Enlightenment* Zuzana Parusniková
Yafeng Shan is Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His recent books include History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2026), Rethinking Thomas Kuhns Legacy (2024), Alternative Approaches to Causation (2024), Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research (Routledge, 2024), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (Routledge, 2022), and Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020).
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