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Tables of Contents for Conjectures and Refutations
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiv
Preface to the Second Edition
xv
Preface to the Third Edition
xvii
Introduction On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance
3
40
CONJECTURES
Science: Conjectures and Refutations
43
44
Appendix: Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science
78
9
The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science
87
43
Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge
130
31
The Science of Galileo and Its Most Recent Betrayal
130
4
The Issue at Stake
134
5
The First View: Ultimate Explanation by Essences
139
5
The Second View: Theories as Instruments
144
5
Criticism of the Instrumentalist View
149
4
The Third View: Conjectures, Truth, and Reality
153
8
Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition
161
22
Back to the Presocratics
183
41
Appendix: Historical Conjectures and Heraclitus on Change
206
18
A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein
224
13
Kant's Critique and Cosmology
237
12
Kant and the Enlightenment
238
2
Kant's Newtonian Cosmology
240
1
The Critique and the Cosmological Problem
241
1
Space and Time
242
2
Kant's Copernican Revolution
244
2
The Doctrine of Autonomy
246
3
On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics
249
23
Kant and the Logic of Experience
249
12
The Problem of the Irrefutability of Philosophical Theories
261
11
Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality?
272
19
Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
291
50
The Growth of Knowledge: Theories and Problems
291
11
The Theory of Objective Truth: Correspondence to the Facts
302
7
Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability
309
13
Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth
322
4
Three Requirements for the Growth of Knowledge
326
15
Appendix: A Presumably False yet Formally Highly Probable Non-Empirical Statement
336
5
REFUTATIONS
The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics
341
54
Introduction
342
2
My Own View of the Problem
344
5
Carnap's First Theory of Meaninglessness
349
7
Carnap and the Language of Science
356
12
Testability and Meaning
368
9
Probability and Induction
377
18
Language and the Body-Mind Problem
395
8
Introduction
395
2
Four Major Functions of Language
397
1
A Group of Theses
398
1
The Machine Argument
399
2
The Causal Theory of Naming
401
1
Interaction
402
1
Conclusion
402
1
A Note on the Body-Mind Problem
403
6
Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language
409
10
What is Dialectic?
419
33
Dialectic Explained
419
16
Hegelian Dialectic
435
10
Dialectic After Hegel
445
7
Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences
452
15
Public Opinion and Liberal Principles
467
10
The Myth of Public Opinion
467
3
The Dangers of Public Opinion
470
1
Liberal Principles: A Group of Theses
471
2
The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion
473
2
The Forms of Public Opinion
475
1
Some Practical Problems: Censorship and Monopolies of Publicity
475
1
A short List of Political Illustrations
476
1
Summary
476
1
Utopia and Violence
477
12
The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View
489
17
Humanism and Reason
506
11
Addenda: Some Technical Notes
517
41
Empirical Content
517
5
Probability and the Severity of Tests
522
5
Verisimilitude
527
8
Numerical Examples
535
2
Artificial vs. Formalized Languages
537
1
A Historical Note on Verisimilitude (1964)
538
3
Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude (1968)
541
4
Further Remarks on the Presocratics, especially on Parmenides (1968)
545
11
The Presocratics: Unity or Novelty? (1968)
556
1
An Argument, due to Mark Twain, against Naive Empiricism (1989)
557
1
Index of Mottoes
558
1
Index of Names
559
8
Index of Subjects
567