From: "Rafe Champion" <rchamp-AT-bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: PKF: On Liking Popper AND Feyerabend ...
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:06:09 +1100


> Hi,
>
> Plato is another matter indeed! Please, take social sciences and its
> epistemology, Poppe is today a non-entity. Tell me about any Popper
> contribution, I mean original contribution, of any value to the social
> sciences now.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Victor

Try the critique of essentialism "Open Society" chapter 11 section ii,
critique of utopian planning, chapter 9, refutation of all theories of
sovereignty, chapter 7, demolition of theory of hisorical determinism "The
Poverty of Historicism".

Also the theory of objective knowledge.
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/beardsley/700/ob1.html

Rafe


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