The Power of Argumentation

227 Pages·2007·1.04 MB·English

by  Enrique Suarez-Iniguez (Editor)

THE POWER OF ARGUMENTATION
POZNAŃ STUDIES
IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES

VOLUME 93

EDITORS

Leszek Nowak (founding editor)
Jerzy Brzeziński Marcin Paprzycki
Andrzej Klawiter Piotr Przybysz (assistant editor)
Krzysztof Łastowski Mikołaj Sędek (assistant editor)
Izabella Nowakowa Michael J. Shaffer
Katarzyna Paprzycka (editor-in-chief) Piotr Ziemian (assistant editor)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Joseph Agassi (Tel-Aviv) Jerzy Kmita (Poznań)
Étienne Balibar (Paris) Leon Koj (Lublin)
Wolfgang Balzer (München) Theo A.F. Kuipers (Groningen)
Mario Bunge (Montreal) Witold Marciszewski (Warszawa)
Nancy Cartwright (London) Ilkka Niiniluoto (Helsinki)
Robert S. Cohen (Boston) Günter Patzig (Göttingen)
Francesco Coniglione (Catania) Jerzy Perzanowski (Toruń)
Andrzej Falkiewicz (Wrocław) Marian Przełęcki (Warszawa)
Dagfinn Føllesdal (Oslo) Jan Such (Poznań)
Bert Hamminga (Tilburg) Max Urchs (Konstanz)
Jaakko Hintikka (Boston) Jan Woleński (Kraków)
Jacek J. Jadacki (Warszawa) Ryszard Wójcicki (Warszawa)

Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
is sponsored by SWPS

Address: dr hab. Katarzyna Paprzycka, Prof. SWPS . Department of Philosophy . SWPS
ul. Chodakowska 19/31 . 03-815 Warszawa . Poland . fax: ++48 22 517-9625
E-mail: [email protected] . Website: http://PoznanStudies.swps.edu.pl
NEW TRENDS IN PHILOSOPHY

Katarzyna Paprzycka (editor-in-chief)
Department of Philosophy . SWPS
ul. Chodakowska 19/31 . 03-815 Warszawa . Poland
[email protected]

New Trends in Philosophy is a new subseries of the Pozna(cid:2) Studies in the
Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities book series. It publishes
collections of papers that deal with new or underrepresented topics in
philosophy.

Other volume in the series:
Vol. 92: M.P. Wolf and M.N. Lance (eds.), The Self-Correcting Enterprise:
Essays on Wilfrid Sellars

POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES, VOLUME 93
NEW TRENDS IN PHILOSOPHY

THE POWER OF
ARGUMENTATION

Edited by

Enrique Suárez-Iñiguez

Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007
The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of "ISO
9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents -
Requirements for permanence".
ISSN 0303-8157
ISBN: 978-90-420-2287-4
©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007
Printed in The Netherlands
CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
PART ONE: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I. C. Jarvie, The Development of Popper’s Conception of the Social . 15
Fred Eidlin, Call to Destiny or Call to Action: Marx, Popper,
and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Bryan Magee, Popper’s Philosophy and Practical Politics . . . . . . . . 55
Enrique Suárez-Iñiguez, Karl Popper’s Educational Conception . . . . 71
PART TWO: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Joseph Agassi, Corroboration Spurious and Genuine . . . . . . . . . . . 81
John Watkins, Popper and Darwinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Mario Bunge, Seven Desiderata for Rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Ambrosio Velasco Gómez, The Hermeneutic Conception of Scien-
tific Traditions in Karl R. Popper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
David Miller, Propensities and Indeterminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Alan Musgrave, Critical Rationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Notes on the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Los seres humanos verdaderamente grandes
son siempre sencillos y buenos.
Así fueron mi Madre y mi Padre:
A ellos dedico este libro.

Truly great human beings
are always simple and good.
Thus were my Mother and my Father:
To them I dedicate this book.