Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The alleged unity of Popper's philosophy of science: Falsifiability as fake cement

  • Published:
Philosophical Studies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Bibliography

  • Miller, D.: 1974, ‘Popper's qualitative theory of verisimilitude’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25, pp. 1–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, D.: 1982, ‘Conjectural knowledge: Popper's solution of the problem induction’, in P. Levison (ed), In Pursuit of Truth (Harvester Press, Sussex/Humanities Press, New Jersey) pp. 17–49.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popper, K. R.: 1934, Logik der Forschung, English translation: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Hutchison & Co., London/Basic Books Incl., New York, 1959). Quotes from the 3rd revised edition from 1969.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popper, K. R.: 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies, 2 volumes (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London). Cited from 5th revised edition (1966), reprint (1974).

    Google Scholar 

  • Popper, K. R.: 1963, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Growth (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London/Basic Books Incl., New York).

    Google Scholar 

  • Popper, K. R.: 1972, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Oxford Univ. Press). Quotes from revised (1973)-edition.

  • Popper, K. R. 1974, ‘Intellectual autobiography’ and ‘Replies to my critics’ in P. A. Schilpp (ed), The Philosophy of Karl Popper (Open Court, La Salle, IL) pp. 3–181 and pp. 961–1197.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popper, K. R.: 1981, ‘The present significance of two arguments of Henri Poincaré’, in Morscher, E., Neumaier and Zecha (eds), Philosophie als Wissenschaft/Essays in Scientific Philosophy, (Comes Verlag, Bad Reichenhall), pp. 19–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tichý, P.: 1974, ‘On Popper's definitions of verisimilitude’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25, pp. 155–160.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Filosofisch Instituut, Thomas van Aquinostraat 3, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    A. A. Derksen

Authors
  1. A. A. Derksen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Derksen, A.A. The alleged unity of Popper's philosophy of science: Falsifiability as fake cement. Philosophical Studies 48, 313–336 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01305393

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01305393

Search

Navigation