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48Karl 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 (1934) and The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), 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 Engli…Read more
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52Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical RationalismIn Zuzana Parusniková & Robert S. Cohen (eds.), Rethinking Popper, Springer. pp. 417--423. 2009.
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47The non-justificationist deductivism (or critical rationalism) of Karl Popper constitutes the only approach to human knowledge, including of course the natural and social sciences, that is capable of overcoming all the failings, and the plain contradictions, of the traditional doctrine of inductivism and of its modern incarnation, Bayesianism.
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40If the open society is a society that ‘sets free the critical powers of man’ (Popper, 1945, Introduction), then the subject of critical thinking, now widely taught in universities in North America and at the level of further education in the UK, might seem to be a welcome innovation. Caution is advised. By mistakenly supposing that thinking intelligently is identical with thinking logically, critical thinking textbooks almost invariably regard the purpose of argument to be a combination of justi…Read more
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58Overcoming The Justificationist AddictionStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 3 (1): 9-18. 2008.It is a simple, though ancient, mistake in the theory of knowledge to think that justification, in any degree, is central to rationality, or even important to it. We must cut forever the intellectual apron strings that continue to offer us spurious and unneeded security, and replace the insoluble problem of what our theories are based on by the soluble problem of how to expose their shortcomings. The paper will outline the critical rationalism of K. Popper, taking account of some recent criticis…Read more
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32Kant, the Nation-State, and ImmigrationKantian Review 1-17. forthcoming.Kant is invariably read by his followers as antipathetic to all forms of nationalism. Yet he was interested in differences of national character and used an organic metaphor to explain why states should not be broken up or annexed (unfortunately he never commented explicitly on the dismemberment of Poland by Prussia and its allies). He favoured a plural world in which national differences of language and religion prevented the emergence of despotic world government. So his acknowledgement of a l…Read more
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93Who cares what the people think? Revisiting David Miller’s approach to theorising about justiceContemporary Political Theory 17 (1): 69-104. 2018.
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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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30The burden of this theorem, stated informally, is that when a hypothesis h is maximally independent of the evidence — that is, it goes wholly beyond the evidence —, then the probability p(h, e) increases when the evidence e is weakened; and hence, the weaker is the evidence, the greater is the probabilistic support.
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23Taking up the Slack? Responsibility and justice in situations of partial complianceIn Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and distributive justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 230--45. 2011.
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63The 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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3The justification of political authorityIn David Schmidtz (ed.), Robert Nozick, Cambridge University Press. pp. 10--33. 2002.
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68Sidgwick and Rawls on distributive justice and desertPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 20 (4): 385-408. 2021.This article explores, comparatively and critically, Sidgwick’s and Rawls’s reasons for rejecting desert as a principle of distributive justice. Their ethical methods, though not identical, each re...
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11I am indebted to Zwirn and Zwirn [1989] for their extended and careful comments on the arguments of Popper & Miller [1983], [1987], and also for friendly and illuminating conversations. Their judgement seems to be that although Popper and I fail to make a satisfactory case for our conclusion that inductive probability is impossible, that conclusion is nonetheless defensible on quite other grounds. I don’t really agree with this, as I shall explain
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56Republicanism, national identity and EuropeIn Cécile Laborde & John W. Maynor (eds.), Republicanism and Political Theory, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 145. 2008.
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Popper and TarskiIn Ian Charles Jarvie & Sandra Pralong (eds.), Popper's Open society after fifty years: the continuing relevance of Karl Popper, Routledge. 1999.
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2Multiculturalism and the welfare state: Theoretical reflectionsIn Keith Banting & Will Kymlicka (eds.), Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Joseph Raz on human rights : a critical appraisalIn Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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408 Justice, democracy and public goodsIn Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin & Carole Pateman (eds.), Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry, Cambridge University Press. pp. 127. 2004.
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172Is There a Human Right to Immigrate?In Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.
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3Equality of Opportunity and the FamilyIn Debra Satz & Rob Reich (eds.), Toward a humanist justice : the political philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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33Comparative and non-comparative desertIn Serena Olsaretti (ed.), Desert and justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 25--44. 2003.Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values.
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4CosmopolitanismIn Garrett Wallace Brown & David Held (eds.), The Cosmopolitanism Reader, Polity. pp. 377--392. 2010.
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Shlomi SegallIn Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and distributive justice, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Goldsmiths College, University of LondonCentre for Philosophy and Critical ThoughtGraduate student