Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave

by Alan Musgrave and Colin Cheyne

Book Overview

Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical - critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for scientific realism against all anti-realist accounts of science. His critical rationalism is drawn from the work of Karl Popper and stands opposed to inductivist and irrationalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048170729
• ISBN13: 9789048170722
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"