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- From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
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- Subject: Re: Feyerabend, Kuhn, Lakatos, and Popper one school? (was re: Natural Kinds)
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:08:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.145454.7709@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> gavan@elc.mth.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux) writes:
- >
- >In particular, Kuhn Lakatos and Popper have *rather* a lot in common.
- >It's just that Popper doesn't think so. In fact Lakatos always
- >presented himself as a Popperian (Popper declined the honour) while
- >Kuhn cites Popper as a major influence (Popper reacted vehemently).
- >
- >Gavan Tredoux
- >UCT
-
- There are close links of all sorts between these philosophers. If you
- read Kuhn's early work, like ``The Copernican Revolution'', he there
- is more Popperian than Popper, putting forward what later came to be
- known as naive falsificationism. Lakatos's notion of a scientific research
- programme is very similar to the earlier Popperian notion of a
- metaphysical research programme. The more I read Popper the more I
- think that these other philosophers have very little original to offer.
- One of the probles has been that Popper has written vastly more than
- he has published, though he has lectured on this new material. I guess
- a lot will appear when he dies.
-
-
- Antoni Diller
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