Joseph Agassi

Popper and His Popular Critics / - New York: Springer,


Prelims

On Human Rules About God’s World


In Search for Rules


Rules Against Mock-Criticism

Rules Against Excessive Defensiveness

Against the Bouncers at the Gates of Science

Duhem, Quine and Kuhn, and Incommensurability


Popper and His Popular Critics

Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994)


Kuhn’s Way


Feyerabend’s Proposal

Imre Lakatos

A Touch of Malice

In a Nutshell

The Essential Popper


Kuhn on Pluralism and Incommensurability

Paul Feyerabend and Rational Pluralism

Lakatos on the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs

Epilogue: Civilization and Its Self-defense




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