The Myth of the Framework

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The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
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Cover of the first edition, showing Karl Popper in 1988
Author Karl Popper
Language English
Subject Philosophy of science
Published 1994 (Routledge)
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 230
ISBN 978-0415113205

The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality is a 1994 book by Karl Popper.[1]

The book is a collection of papers "prepared on different occasions as lectures for non-specialist audiences" (p. x).

The author formulates a premise for the book as: I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth(p. xii).

See also

Notes

  1. Karl R. Popper (1994). The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Description & Contents. London and New York: Routledge.


References

  • Karl R. Popper (1994). The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Description & Contents, including excerpt of chapter 1, "The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions." London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13555-9
  • _____ (1987). "The Myth of the Framework," Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning, 98, pp. 35- 62. An earlier publication of ch. 2 above.
  • [Book review] (2011). "The Myth of the Framework: in defense [sic] of science and rationality, K.Popper Dec 18 - Dec 20, 2011," pp. 1-9 via http://www.chalmers.se/sv/institutioner/math/Sidor/default.aspx.
  • Alexander Bird (1996). "The Myth of the Framework, by Karl Popper; Knowledge and the Body: Mind Problem by Karl Popper," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47(1), pp. 149-151.
  • Alan Forrester (2010). "The Myth of the Framework," critical rationalism blog, October 3.

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