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245		0	_aKarl Popper, Science and Enightenment
264			_bUCL Press _c2017
300			_a1 online resource (390 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
520			_aHere is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward. But Nicholas Maxwell finds a flaw in this line of argument. Physicists only ever accept theories that are unified : theories that depict the same laws applying to the range of phenomena to which the theory applies : even though many other empirically more successful disunified theories are always available. This means that science makes a questionable assumption about the universe, namely that all disunified theories are false. Without some such presupposition as this, the whole empirical method of science breaks down. By proposing a new conception of scientific methodology, which can be applied to all worthwhile human endeavours with problematic aims, Maxwell argues for a revolution in academic inquiry to help humanity make progress towards a better, more civilized and enlightened world.
653			_aCivilization
653			_aKarl Popper
653			_aReason
653			_aScience
653			_aThe Enlightenment
700	1		_aMaxwell, Nicholas
856			_uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31176/1/636791.pdfhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/karl-popper-science-and-enlightenmenthttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31176
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