The Impact of Critical Rationalism

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As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C. Jarvie extended the notion of Critical Rationalism to be useful in anthropology, aesthetics, film studies, and various social sciences. In this Festschrift, contributors from a range of interests and disciplines engage with the Popperian legacy and Jarvie’s scholarly and editorial work in Critical Rationalism to contextualize it in the broader, contemporary intellectual landscape. These original essays not only honor Jarvie’s legacy, but expand it to cross the philosophical divide between analytic and continental schools of thought. In so doing, the authors bring the state-of-the-art achievements of Critical Rationalism to the forefront of current academic debates. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: The Legacy of Ian C. Jarvie (Nathaniel Laor, Raphael Sassower)....Pages 1-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 How Should Social Engineers Develop Critical Social Science? (Nimrod Bar-Am)....Pages 9-18 On Economic Methodology Literature from 1963 to Today (Lawrence Boland)....Pages 19-29 The Republic of Science and Its Constitution: Some Reflections on Scientific Methods as Institutions (Jesús Zamora Bonilla)....Pages 31-44 The Situational Logic of Disciplinary Scholarship (Fred D’Agostino)....Pages 45-57 Academia as Cargo Cult (Steve Fuller)....Pages 59-70 Our Current Sense of Anxiety (John A. Hall)....Pages 71-79 How to Integrate Economic, Social, and Political Theory: Revise the Rationality Principle (John Wettersten)....Pages 81-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 The Future of Critical Rationalism (Joseph Agassi)....Pages 97-107 The Dark Side of Technological Progress (Mario Bunge)....Pages 109-113 Fractured Knowledge: “Fake News” (Jagdish Hattiangadi)....Pages 115-128 Ian C. Jarvie, Critical Rationalism and Methodological Individualism (Jeremy Shearmur)....Pages 129-143 Jarvie on Rationality and Cultural Relativism (Kei Yoshida)....Pages 145-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 Popper’s Institutional Turn (Rafe Champion)....Pages 161-172 The Republic of Science and Its Citizens: What Role May Humanities Play Within the Popperian Framework? (José A. Colen, Scott Nelson)....Pages 173-188 Karl Popper, the Open Society, and the Cosmopolitan Democratic Empire (Malachi Haim Hacohen)....Pages 189-205 Popper and Hume: Two Great Skeptics (Zuzana Parusniková)....Pages 207-223 The Tyranny in Science: The Case of Hugh Everett’s Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (Sheldon Richmond)....Pages 225-239 Jarvie’s Rationalitätstreit (Paul A. Roth)....Pages 241-255 The Political Philosophy of Science in Historical Perspective: The Road Through Popper and Polanyi to the Present (Stephen Turner)....Pages 257-271 Popper’s Conception of Scientific Discovery and Its Relation to the Community of Science (H. T. Wilson)....Pages 273-287 Front Matter ....Pages 289-289 Some Thoughts on Artists’ Statements (Jeanette Bicknell)....Pages 291-299 Confusing the Scientific and Moral Appeals of Suppressing Vice (Augustine Brannigan)....Pages 301-317 World Three and Cognitivism: Philosophy in Film (Byron Kaldis)....Pages 319-338 Jarvie, Popper, McLuhan, and Me (Paul Levinson)....Pages 339-341 Back Matter ....Pages 343-348