This thread seems important. If ideas around critical rationalism are causing people life problems, that's a major issue. I hope CR can be patched up to not have these issues. (I think there's the makings of a good solution: more leaning on tradition, actual fallibilism, etc.)https://twitter.com/tjaulow/status/1206188493421985792 …
More importantly in my view, it totally fails to explain empirical studies of what successful science does in practice. That empirical work is done in the history and ethnography of science.
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I think Deutsch's work is the state of the art in CR. Definitely build on Popper. Only skimmed just now, but most of these objections are at least addressed (if not refuted, I leave to you to decide) in the Epistemology chapters of Fabric of Reality or in Beginning of Infinity.
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As just one example, this point is covered thoroughly by Deutsch's concept of a Good Explanation.pic.twitter.com/mnEmGZSW89
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There are a few pages in BoI that discuss "bad philosophy of science" which show he hasn't read it. There's basically only one specific thing he says, which is that Kuhn was an anti-realist, which is absolutely incorrect.
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I don't have an opinion on Kuhn, but I would only hazard you to not miss the forest for the trees, or hold an undue bias against an entire book for one mistake (if it's that) :)
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