Popper, Ignorance, and the Emptiness of Fallibilism. Friedman, S. In Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge, 2 edition, 2022. Num Pages: 9abstract bibtex The starting point of Karl Popper’s philosophy of science is epistemological humility: We are ignorant and prone to error. Science is for Popper a middle way between ignorance and knowledge, an alternative to both epistemological pessimism and optimism. The pessimist is impressed with human fallibility and ignorance, as Popper was. Induction is the practice of inferring from past observations of some conjunction of phenomena, such as whiteness and swans, a universal law, such as “all swans are white.” Popper is no longer taken seriously by many philosophers of science. A criticism often leveled at Popper’s criterion of falsifiability is that the compelling logical asymmetry between falsifiability and verifiability is usually inapplicable in the real world. Critical rationalism functions as an injunction to open-mindedness. The inability to take into account our inscrutable ignorance might explain why philosophers of science tend to have faith in scientific progress.
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