And it is a fact that my social theory (which favours gradual and piecemeal reform, reform controlled by a critical comparison between expected and achieved results) contrasts with my theory of method, which happens to be a theory of scientific and intellectual revolutions. [68]
On piecemeal reform vs revolution
- By PeterM in .Popper, Karl, The Myth of the Framework
-
26 December 2017
Leave a Reply Cancel reply
Recent Comments
- PeterM on Scientific methodology (German edition)
- PeterM on The logic of scientific methodology
- Fakten? Welche Fakten? – Wissenschaftskommunikation.de on The power of logic
- Fakten? Welche Fakten? – Wissenschaftskommunikation.de on The mental process of critical rationalism
- Fakten? Welche Fakten? – Wissenschaftskommunikation.de on The role of explanation in science
- PeterM on Die neue Freiheit
Tags
authority
critical rationalism
criticism
demarcation
democracy
discussion
education
enlightenment
experiment
explanation
fact
falsifiability
falsification
freedom
freedom of speech
hypothesis testing
induction
justification
knowledge
Kuhn
learning
liberty
logic
method
morality
objective knowledge
objectivity
open society
opinion
philosophy
politics
Popper
power
problems
progress
rational discussion
rationality
religion
science
scientism
society
statistics
theory
truth
World 3
Authors
- .Adams, John (1)
- Journal (1)
- .Adorno, Theodor W. et al. (1)
- .Agassi, Joseph (1)
- .Albert, Hans (28)
- .Albert/Popper (1)
- Briefwechsel (1)
- .Andersson, Gunnar (3)
- .Bacon, Francis (3)
- New Organon (3)
- .Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo (1)
- Poor Economics (1)
- .Benn, Tony (1)
- .Bergson, Henri (1)
- .Blackburn, Simon (1)
- Truth (1)
- .Boghossian, Peter (1)
- .Bronowski, Jacob (8)
- .BVerfG (1)
- “KPD-Verbot” (1)
- .Byrnes, Sholto (1)
- .Churchill, Winston (1)
- .Cockburn, Patrick (1)
- .Colquhoun, David (1)
- .Cox, Brian (4)
- .Dahrendorf, Ralf (5)
- .Darwin, Charles (4)
- .Dawkins, Richard (1)
- .Dawkins/Law (1)
- .Deutsch, David (45)
- .Dewey, John (2)
- .Dryzek, John S. (1)
- .Eidlin, Fred (1)
- .Einstein, Albert (1)
- .Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1)
- .Enserink, Martin (1)
- .Ferrone, Vincenzo (1)
- .Feyerabend, Paul (2)
- Against Method (2)
- .Feyerabend/Albert (2)
- Briefwechsel (2)
- .Feynman, Richard (5)
- .Fisher, R.A. (7)
- .Fuller, Steve (10)
- Kuhn vs. Popper (10)
- .Gadenne, Volker (1)
- .Gladwell, Malcolm (1)
- .Goldacre, Ben (2)
- Bad Science (2)
- .Goodin, Robert (4)
- .Gould, Stephen Jay (6)
- .Grayling, A.C. (6)
- .Harris, Sam (3)
- .Hitchens, Christopher (1)
- .Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno (4)
- .Hume, David (3)
- .Jarvie, Ian (17)
- .Jörke, Dirk (1)
- .Kant, Immanuel (1)
- .Kiesewetter, Hubert (2)
- .Kohl, Helmut (1)
- .Krugman, Paul (1)
- .Kuhn, Thomas (1)
- .Lakatos, Imre (1)
- .Laudan, Larry (1)
- .Lipton, Peter (1)
- .Livio, Mario (1)
- .Lockhart, Paul (2)
- .Magee, Bryan (5)
- .Medawar, Peter (4)
- .Meehl, Paul E. (5)
- .Mill, John Stuart (35)
- On Liberty and Utilitarianism (35)
- “On Liberty” (32)
- “Utilitarianism” (3)
- On Liberty and Utilitarianism (35)
- .Morgenstern/Zimmer (1)
- Karl Popper (1)
- .Mosley, Michael and John Lynch (2)
- .Nagel, Thomas (1)
- .Newton, Roger G. (3)
- .Notturno, Mark (20)
- .Paine, Thomas (1)
- .Papineau, David (1)
- .Pies, Ingo (1)
- .Pinker, Steven (1)
- .Popper, Karl (162)
- “Replies to my Critics” (2)
- After The Open Society (2)
- All Life is Problem Solving (3)
- Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt (8)
- Conjectures and Refutations (23)
- “Back to the Presocratics” (1)
- “Humanism and Reason” (1)
- “Public Opinion and Liberal Principles” (1)
- “Science: Conjectures and Refutations” (5)
- “Sources of Knowledge and Ignorance” (4)
- “The Nature of Philosophical Problems and Their Roots in Science” (1)
- “Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge” (4)
- “Utopia and Violence” (3)
- “What is Dialectic?” (1)
- Logik der Forschung (1)
- Objective Knowledge (19)
- Realism and the Aim of Science (4)
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery (36)
- The Myth of the Framework (19)
- The Open Society and Its Enemies (37)
- The Poverty of Historicism (2)
- Unended Quest (6)
- .Popper, Karl and John C. Eccles (11)
- .Porter, Roy (2)
- .Russell, Bertrand (2)
- .Sagan, Carl (11)
- .Schank, Roger (1)
- .Schilpp, Paul Arthur (ed.) (1)
- .Shearmur, Jeremy (2)
- .Shirky, Clay (1)
- .Singer, Peter (1)
- .Sloman/Fernbach (1)
- .Smolin, Lee (1)
- .Soros, George (1)
- Open Society (1)
- .Stelter, Brian (1)
- .The Julian Assange Show (1)
- .Trotsky, Leon (1)
- .Vollmer, Gerhard (1)
- .Waschkuhn, Arno (2)
- .Weil, Simone (3)
- .Wilson, Edward O. (1)
- Consilience (1)
- .Zimmer, Mirjam (1)
1 comment
Author
Taken out of context by Spinner, this seems to say that Popper’s theory of method is not applicable to social problems. This flies in the face of Popper’s own words in the Open Society and fundamentally misunderstands that Popper’s rejection of revolution in the social sphere is a rejection of the idea of remaking a society as a whole—as opposed to remaking, or even revolutionising, single institutions.