Scott O’Connor Does the Quine-Duhem thesis create insurmountable problems for Popper’s falsificationist methodology of science? Karl Popper can be credited with positing an alternative, original methodology of science that escapes, it would appear, many of the Humean problems to induction. What follows is a careful examination of the falsificationist philosophy where it shall be shown that falsificationism is not as coherent a philosophy as one might think, and that the objection in the …showed first 75 words of 3004 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3004 total…Popper: “Conjectual Knowledge: My Solution to the Problem of Induction,” Ch 1 Pg 8 of Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach Bibliography (1) “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” in A Logical Point of View, W.V.O Quine (2) What is this thing called Science by A.F. Chalmers Third edition 1999 Open University Press Buckingham (3) “Conjectual Knowledge: My Solution to the Problem of Induction” Ch 1 of Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (4) “Empirical Content” Theories and Things by W.V.O Quine