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Vor einem Tag · In The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism, Popper developed a critique of historicism and a defence of the "Open Society". Popper considered historicism to be the theory that history develops inexorably and necessarily according to knowable general laws towards a determinate end. He argued that this view is the principal theoretical presupposition underpinning most ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In his The Poverty of Historicism (1944) he excoriates historicism for claiming to deduce universal laws from the facts of history, supposedly enabling predictions. Universal laws are thus for him the goal of historical understsnding, as they are in science. But history is precisely a domain in which there are no universal laws; there is no law, for example, stating that a weak constitution ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Popper, especially, was implacably against what he called historicism. This is the idea, Vargas Llosa writes, “that history is written and follows a script conceived by God or is determined by social and economic forces against which individual actions cannot prevail…. Popper lucidly defends the reformist method — both ...
Anyhow you can start with The Poverty of Historicism, A Realist View of Logic, Physics, and History, The Logic of Scientific Discovery. I do suggest reading critics, Kuhn and The structure of scientific Revolutions, Kuhn and Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research.
Vor 4 Tagen · Verlag: J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen. Herstellungsland: Deutschland. Erscheinungsjahr: 2003. Auflage: Sechste Auflage. Format: 9,4 x 14,2 x 0,1 cm. Seitenanzahl: 132. Gewicht: 259 gr. Sprache: Deutsch.
Vor 3 Tagen · Hayden White is a controversial figure in the world of history. Study any textbook on the theory and philosophy of history, and you will be assured that his 1973 book Metahistory marked a revolutionary turning point in historical theory.
Isaiah Berlin. 06 June 1909 - 5 November 1997. Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment Apologetics. Part of a Series on the Philosophy of History. Thursday 06 June 2024 is the 115th anniversary of the birth of Isaiah Berlin (06 June 1909 - 5 November 1997), who was born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, the only son of a timber baron of the Baltic, on this date in 1909.
