Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Preface to the Second Edition |
Preface to the Third Edition |
Introduction: On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance |
Conjectures |
Science: Conjectures and Refutations / 1: |
Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science / Appendix: |
The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science / 2: |
Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge / 3: |
The Science of Galileo and Its Most Recent Betrayal |
The Issue at Stake |
The First View: Ultimate Explanation by Essences |
The Second View: Theories as Instruments / 4: |
Criticism of the Instrumentalist View / 5: |
The Third View: Conjectures, Truth, and Reality / 6: |
Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition |
Back to the Presocratics |
Historical Conjectures and Heraclitus on Change |
A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein |
Kant's Critique and Cosmology / 7: |
Kant and the Enlightenment |
Kant's Newtonian Cosmology |
The Critique and the Cosmological Problem |
Space and Time |
Kant's Copernican Revolution |
The Doctrine of Autonomy |
On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics / 8: |
Kant and the Logic of Experience |
The Problem of the Irrefutability of Philosophical Theories |
Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality? / 9: |
Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge / 10: |
The Growth of Knowledge: Theories and Problems |
The Theory of Objective Truth: Correspondence to the Facts |
Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability |
Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth |
Three Requirements for the Growth of Knowledge |
A Presumably False yet Formally Highly Probable Non-Empirical Statement |
Refutations |
The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics / 11: |
Introduction |
My Own View of the Problem |
Carnap's First Theory of Meaninglessness |
Carnap and the Language of Science |
Testability and Meaning |
Probability and Induction |
Language and the Body-Mind Problem / 12: |
Four Major Functions of Language |
A Group of Theses |
The Machine Argument |
The Causal Theory of Naming |
Interaction |
Conclusion |
A Note on the Body-Mind Problem / 13: |
Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language / 14: |
What is Dialectic? / 15: |
Dialectic Explained |
Hegelian Dialectic |
Dialectic After Hegel |
Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences / 16: |
Public Opinion and Liberal Principles / 17: |
The Myth of Public Opinion |
The Dangers of Public Opinion |
Liberal Principles: A Group of Theses |
The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion |
The Forms of Public Opinion |
Some Practical Problems: Censorship and Monopolies of Publicity |
A Short List of Political Illustrations |
Summary |
Utopia and Violence / 18: |
The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View / 19: |
Humanism and Reason / 20: |
Addenda: Some Technical Notes |
Empirical Content |
Probability and the Severity of Tests |
Verisimilitude |
Numerical Examples |
Artificial vs. Formalized Languages |
A Historical Note on Verisimilitude (1964) |
Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude (1968) |
Further Remarks on the Presocratics, especially on Parmenides (1968) |
The Presocratics: Unity or Novelty? (1968) |
An Argument, due to Mark Twain, against Naive Empiricism (1989) |
Index of Mottoes |
Index of Names |
Index of Subjects |
Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Preface to the Second Edition |