Alan Musgrave
Alan Musgrave (* 1940 in Manchester ) is a British philosopher and science theorist. From 1970 to 2005 he was head of the philosophy department at the University of Otago (New Zealand) and has been teaching there ever since.
Musgrave was a student of Karl Popper at the London School of Economics for years and also worked with Imre Lakatos . It was precisely in dealing with these two philosophers that he enriched Critical Rationalism primarily with contributions to questions of realism in epistemology and his own philosophical theory of rationality .
Further focuses of his work are epistemology , the philosophy of history and the philosophy of biology.
literature
- Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds.): Critique and progress in knowledge. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1974.
- Alan Musgrave: What is critical rationalism? In: A. Bohnen and Alan Musgrave (ed.): Ways of reason . Mohr, Tübingen 1991, pp. 17-30
- Alan Musgrave: Everyday Knowledge, Science and Skepticism . Mohr Siebeck / UTB, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-8252-1740-X .
- Alan E. Musgrave: Explanation, Description and Scientific Realism. In: Herbert Keuth, (Ed.): Logic of Research. Akademie Verlag Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-05-003021-6 .
- Alan Musgrave: Secular Sermons. Essays on Science and Philosophy . Otago University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-877372-70-4 (out of print)
- German, translated by Axel Walter : Secular sermons. Essays on science and philosophy , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-16-150614-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Alan Musgrave in the catalog of the German National Library
- University website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Musgrave, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British philosopher and philosophy of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |