Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 52 (6):354-364 (2022)
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In this paper I offer a brief summary of Popper’s views on metaphysics. I then explain Agassi’s criticism of those views, and why I regard them as fruitful improvements.

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Objective Knowledge.K. R. Popper - 1972 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 4 (2):388-398.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery.Karl R. Popper - 1959 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (3):471-472.
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