<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Among the philosophers and the educated audience the name of Sir Karl Popper is usually associated with the critical method, evolutionary epistemology, falsification as a criterion for the demarcation of scientific knowledge, the concept of the third world and with his dislike to dialectics and contradictions. This article is aimed to show in what way all these things are connected in the evolutionary researches of the philosopher and the new conceptions, which he contributed to studying the mechanisms of evolution. Also there is an attempt to comprehend the evolutionary views of Popper, test them for falsification, relate his epistemology with his claims, which he puts forward to the theory of objective knowledge evolution and show the obvious contradiction between them. </p></abstract>

Among the philosophers and the educated audience the name of Sir Karl Popper is usually associated with the critical method, evolutionary epistemology, falsification as a criterion for the demarcation of scientific knowledge, the concept of the third world and with his dislike to dialectics and contradictions. This article is aimed to show in what way all these things are connected in the evolutionary researches of the philosopher and the new conceptions, which he contributed to studying the mechanisms of evolution. Also there is an attempt to comprehend the evolutionary views of Popper, test them for falsification, relate his epistemology with his claims, which he puts forward to the theory of objective knowledge evolution and show the obvious contradiction between them.

Natural Selection or Problem Solving. Critical Re-evaluation of Karl Popper's Evolutionism

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Among the philosophers and the educated audience the name of Sir Karl Popper is usually associated with the critical method, evolutionary epistemology,...

Natural Selection or Problem Solving. Critical Re-evaluation of Karl Popper's Evolutionism

Publié en ligne: 08 oct. 2014

Pages: 29 - 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2014-0012

Mots clés
evolution, epistemology, selection principle, Popper.

© 2014

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Natural Selection or Problem Solving. Critical Re-evaluation of Karl Popper's Evolutionism

Publié en ligne: 08 oct. 2014

Pages: 29 - 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2014-0012

Mots clésevolution, epistemology, selection principle, Popper.

© 2014

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
evolution, epistemology, selection principle, Popper.