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21Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical RationalismAshgate Publishing. 2006.David Miller is the foremost exponent of the purist critical rationalist doctrine and here presents his mature views, discussing the role that logic and argument play in the growth of knowledge, criticizing the common understanding of argument as an instrument of justification, persuasion or discovery and instead advocating the critical rationalist view that only criticism matters. Miller patiently and thoroughly undoes the damage done by those writers who attack critical rationalism by invoking…Read more
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33Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and DefenceOpen Court. 1994.David Miller elegantly and provocatively reformulates critical rationalism—the revolutionary approach to epistemology advocated by Karl Popper—by answering its most important critics. He argues for an approach to rationality freed from the debilitating authoritarian dependence on reasons and justification. "Miller presents a particularly useful and stimulating account of critical rationalism. His work is both interesting and controversial... of interest to anyone with concerns in epistemology or…Read more
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37Justice for earthlings: essays in political philosophyCambridge University Press. 2013.In the past few decades social changes have impacted how we understand justice, as societies become both more multicultural and more interconnected globally. Much philosophical thought, however, seems to proceed in isolation from these developments. While philosophers from Plato onwards have portrayed justice as an abstract, universal ideal, Miller argues that principles of justice are always rooted in particular social contexts, and connects these ideas to the changing conditions of human life.…Read more
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Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment. Volume 1: Life and Times, Values in a World of Facts (edited book)Ashgate. 2006.
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16Pluralism, Justice, and Equality (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1995.This is the first-ever book on Michael Walzer's ground-breaking and widely studied book Spheres of Justice. It contains contributions from many of the world's leading political philosophers.
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142Political philosophy: a very short introductionOxford University Press. 2003.This Introduction introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, multiculturalism, and nationality. Accessibly written and assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, it encourages the reader to think clearly and critically about the leading political questions of our time. THe book first investigates how politcial philosophy tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It furthe…Read more
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80On the comparison of false theories by their basesBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25 (2): 178-188. 1974.
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5ForewordPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (3): 219-220. 2016.Karl Popper’s Objective Knowledge stands at the threshold of his last major philosophical phase, the period from his retirement from the London School of Economics in 1969 until his death in 1994. The two great books that he wrote before he came to London, Logik der Forschung and The Open Society and Its Enemies, contain much more than the innovations in the theory of scientific method and the theory of democracy for which they are famous. Logik der Forschung, translated into English as The Logi…Read more
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121The Objectives of Science1Philosophia Scientiae 11 (1): 21-43. 2007.Contestant l’opinion commune selon laquelle le problème de la démarcation, contrairement au problème de l’induction, est relativement anecdotique, l’article soutient que le critère poppérien de falsifiabilité donne une réponse irrésistible à la question de savoir ce qui peut être appris d’une investigation empirique. Tout découle du rejet de la logique inductive, joint à la reconnaissance du fait que, avant d’être investiguée, une hypothèse doit être formulée et acceptée. Les hypothèses scientif…Read more
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235Popper’s qualitative theory of verisimilitudeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25 (2): 166-177. 1974.
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25Karl Popper's contributions to logic and the philosophy of scienceFoundations of Physics 21 (12): 1369-1374. 1991.
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22Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market SocialismOxford University Press UK. 1989.Can we conceive of a market economy that fulfils the ideals of socialism? In this book, David Miller provides a comprehensive examination, from the standpoint of political theory, of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superseded.
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17Popper Selections (edited book)Princeton. 1985.These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known especially for his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejection of inductive reasoning. David Miller, a leading expositor and critic of Popper's work, has chosen thirty selections that illustrate the profundity and originality of his ideas and their applicability to current intellectual and social problems. Miller's in…Read more
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7Truth, Hope, and Power: The Thought of Karl Popper by Douglas E. Williams (review)Isis 82 785-786. 1991.
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17EqualityRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 26 77-98. 1989.It is a distinctive and unprecedented feature of modern societies that the idea of equality should hold a central place in their political thinking. I want to begin my enquiry by considering why this should be and what its significance is. For if there is indeed an important sense in which egalitarianism is written in to contemporary conditions of life, it makes no sense to think of oneself as taking a stand for or against equality. Now to say this is not to deny the equally inescapable fact tha…Read more
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7Deliberative Democracy and Social ChoiceIn James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell. 2003.Notes.
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44Pluralism, Justice, and EqualityPhilosophical Review 106 (1): 127. 1997.This is an excellent collection of critical essays on Michael Walzer’s Spheres of Justice. David Miller provides a comprehensive and lucid introduction to Walzer’s views on justice, and Walzer offers a brief—perhaps too brief—response to his critics. Contributors are drawn from philosophy, political science, and sociology, and include Judith Andre, Richard Arneson, Brian Barry, Joseph Carens, Jon Elster, Amy Gutmann, David Miller, Susan Moller Okin, Michael Rustin, Adam Swift, and Jeremy Waldron…Read more
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183Why Immigration Controls Are Not Coercive: A Reply to Arash AbizadehPolitical Theory 38 (1): 111-120. 2010.Abizadeh has argued that because border controls coerce would-be immigrants and invade their autonomy, they are entitled to participate in the democratic institutions that impose those controls. In reply, the author distinguishes between coercion and prevention, shows that prevention need not undermine autonomy, and concludes that although border controls may restrict freedom, they do not give rise to democratic entitlements
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22Understanding Rawls : A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice (review)Political Theory 5 (4): 541-544. 1977.
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142Two ways to think about justicePolitics, Philosophy and Economics 1 (1): 5-28. 2002.This paper contrasts universalist approaches to justice with contextualist approaches. Universalists hold that basic principles of justice are invariant they apply in every circumstance in which questions of justice arise. Contextualists hold that different principles apply in different contexts, and that there is no underlying master principle that applies in all. The paper argues that universalists cannot explain why so many different theories of justice have been put forward, nor why there …Read more
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253The ethical significance of nationalityEthics 98 (4): 647-662. 1988.My object in this paper is to defend the view that national boundaries may be ethically significant. The duties we owe to our compatriots may be more extensive than the duties we owe to strangers, simply because they are compatriots. On the face of it, such a view is hardly outlandish. On the contrary almost all of us, including our leaders, behave as though it were self-evidently true. We do not, for instance, hesitate to introduce welfare measures on the grounds that their benefits will be enj…Read more
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6Some meanings of the earth: A process perspective (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 21 (1): 3-20. 1987.
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