Medieval & Modern Philosophy · 20th century
Popper & Falsifiability
Karl Popper's answer to what makes science science: bold conjectures that could be refuted, the problem of induction, Einstein versus Freud and Marx, the open society, and critiques from Kuhn and Lakatos.
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Prereqs: Hume (induction); Marx. Next: Kuhn's paradigms; Bayesian reasoning. Sources: Popper, *The Logic of Scientific Discovery* (1934/1959), *Conjectures and Refutations* (1963), *The Open Society and Its Enemies* (1945).Next: 1. The demarcation problem