David Miller (philosopher)
David William Miller (born August 19, 1942 in Watford ) is a British philosopher and prominent proponent of critical rationalism . He teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Warwick University in Coventry , UK . Miller is often confused with the philosopher of the same name, David Leslie Miller (* 1946).
In 1964 he began studying logic and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics . Shortly afterwards he became Karl Popper's assistant . In a number of articles in the 1970s, Miller and others discovered flaws in Popper's formal definition of truthfulness , an aspect of Popper's philosophy that had previously received little attention. Miller and others published numerous writings over the next twenty years in an attempt to save Popper's approach.
Miller's book Critical Rationalism (1994) is an attempt to explain Popper's philosophical approach, to expand it, and to process criticism. A central, “not entirely new” statement is that the rationality or the validity of a hypothesis cannot depend on good reasons, because such an inductive argument is inextricably entangled in the Münchhausen trilemma . Verifications are therefore impossible. Like Popper, Miller concludes that scientific progress can only be achieved by falsifying hypotheses.
Fonts
- Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defense , 1994, ISBN 0-8126-9198-9
- Out Of Error: Further Essays On Critical Rationalism , 2006 ISBN 0-7546-5068-5
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about David Miller in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
- ^ David Miller: Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defense . 1994, p. 56 f .
- ^ David Miller: Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defense . 1994, p. 9 (inter alia) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, David W .; Miller, David William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British philosopher and advocate of critical rationalism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Watford |