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Seeks to reconstruct the logic of Karl Popper's development, in order to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.

This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi called attention to rationality as the very starting point of every notable philosophical way of life.The essays present Agassi’s own views on critical rationalism. They also devel...

Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) ha posto al centro della propria riflessione il carattere intrinsecamente fallibile della nostra conoscenza. A suo modo di vedere, l'edificio della scienza non poggia su un solido strato di roccia ma eleva l'ardita struttura delle proprie teorie sopra una palude. Nel corso di oltre sette decenni di riflessione, Popper ha saputo elaborare una visione del mondo coerente, rigorosa e insieme instabile, che vede nella con...

Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "new philosophy of science" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, that K...