Abstract
Objective Criteria of Scientific Progress? Inductivism, Falsificationism, and Relativism.- I: The LSE Position.- The Popperian Approach to Scientific Knowledge.- The Ways in Which the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Improves on Popper's Methodology.- 'Crucial' Experiments: A Case Study.- The Objective Promise of a Research Programme.- II: Reflections on the LSE Position.- Popper vs Inductivism.- In Defence of Aristotle: Comments on the Condition of Content Increase.- Evidential Support, Falsification, Heuristics, and Anarchism.- Science and the Search for Truth.- Philosophy of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions.- Towards a New Theory of Scientific Inquiry.- Some Critical Comments on Current Popperianism on the Basis of a Theory of System Sets.- The Problem of Verisimilitude.- Objectivism vs Sociologism.- III: The LSE Reply.- Research Programmes, Empirical Support, and the Duhem Problem: Replies to Criticism.- Corroboration and the Problem of Content-Comparison.- Unified Bibliography for Parts I And III.- IV: Two Brief Rejoinders.- The Gong Show - Popperian Style.- Reply to Watkins.- Biographical Notes.- Author Index.