Alex C. Michalos

The Popper-Carnap Controversy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

1 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a serious error. The error was presumably committed by J. M. Keynes, H. Reichen bach and R. Carnap. 2 It was Popper's intention then, to expose the error and to introduce an explicatum for the prescientific concept of degree of confirmation. A few months later Y. Bar-Hillel published an article attempting to show that no serious error had been committed (particularly by Carnap) and that the problem introduced by Popper was simply a "verbal one. "3 Popper replied immediately that "Dr. Bar-Hillel forces me [Popper] now to criticize Carnap's theory further," and he [Popper] introduced further objections which, if accepted, destroy Carnap's theory. 4 About eight years after this exchange took place I was in graduate school at the University of Chicago in search of a topic for a doctoral dissertation. An investigation of the issues involved in this exchange seemed to be ideal for me because I had (and still have) a great ad miration for the work of both Carnap and Popper. A thoroughly revised and I hope improved account of that investigation appears in the first five chapters of this book. Put very briefly, what I found were four main points of contention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401030489
• Artikelnr.: 44185373

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction.- II: Acceptability and Logical Improbability.- III: Two Explicanda and Three Arguments.- IV: Bar-Hillel's "Comments" and Unrestricted Universals.- V: Instance and Qualified-Instance Confirmation.- VI: The Singular Predictive Inference.- VII: Lakatos on Appraisal, Growth and Analytic Guides.- VIII: Hintikka and Hilpinen on Inductive Generalzation.- IX: Cost-Benefit Versus Expected Utility Acceptance Rules.- List of Reference.