Thursday, September 12, 2024

Karl Popper (1902-1994)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper

Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments


problem of induction (歸納的問題性)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

The problem of induction is a philosophicalproblem that questions the rationality of predictions about unobserved things based on previous observations. These inferences from the observed to the unobserved are known as "inductive inferences". David Hume, who first formulated the problem in 1739,[1] argued that there is no non-circular way to justify inductive inferences, while acknowledging that everyone does and must make such inferences.[2]


Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography (1976)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unended_Quest


The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism (with Sir John C. Eccles), 1977, ISBN 0415058988


Karl Popper has indicted Freud's psychoanalytic theory as a non-falsifiable pseudo-science or myth (Popper 1963, chapter 1 ). And he has claimed that traditional inductive methods of theory-validation do accord good scientific credentials to psychoanalysis.


Is Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory Pseudo-Scientific By Karl Popper's Criterion of Demarcation?