Karl Popper, Science And Enlightenment

Front-Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Prologue: An idea to help save the world
Introduction
1. Karl Raimund Popper
2. Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and aim- oriented empiricism
3. Einstein, aim-oriented empiricism, and the discovery of special and general relativity
4. Non-empirical requirements scientific theories must satisfy: simplicity, unity, explanation, beauty
5. Scientific metaphysics
6. Comprehensibility rather than beauty
7. A mug’s game? Solving the problem of induction with metaphysical presuppositions
8. Does probabilism solve the great quantum mystery?
9. Science, reason, knowledge and wisdom: a critique of specialism
10. Karl Popper and the Enlightenment Programme 
Notes
References
Index
Back-Cover