Criticisms to Popper’s Philosophy of Science

19^th November 2020

• Logical objections focus on
  • the empirical status of potential falsifiers
  • the role of potential falsifiers in deductive falsification
  • the involvement of induction in a deduction-based process
• Historical objections:
  • Sophisticated falsificationism by Imre Lakatos
  • Thomas Kuhn
• Methodological objections
  • Paul Feyerabend

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