THE CHOICE FOR SCIENCE IS A CHOICE FOR THE OPEN SOCIETY
the relation between Karl Popper's epistemology and political philosophy
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Popper. Critical Rationalism. Open Society.Abstract
This paper reconstructs Karl Popper's thought, with emphasis on the disciplinary relationship between his epistemology and his political philosophy. We seek to defend the interpretative thesis according to which the Popperian epistemology, mainly what is contained in The Logic of Scientific Research, insofar as it aims to develop a fallibilist conception of science and an anti-foundationalist theory of the scientific method, is indebted to normative principles that were outlined in the context of his political philosophy, especially in the two volumes of The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this manner, the Popperian characterization of science must be viewed as an activity guided by the normative principles of a broader critical community, without which it cannot subsist. Our interpretation, therefore, suggests that scientific activity finds its ethical basis in the moral values of the open society.
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