The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism
Abstract
Karl Popper’s attempt to find an account of the rationality of science without inductive inference was a bold and philosophically rigorous response to the problem of induction. It was bound to fail since science is ineliminably an inductive enterprise. The failing lay not with scientists for using a defective argument form but with philosophers who were unable to account for the success of inductive inference. Such an account is provided by the material theory of induction.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Logic and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
Literary
Cultural
Historical Analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 11–47
- Publication date
- 11 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter