Popper's legacy : rethinking politics, economics and science / Raphael Sassower.

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Introduction -- 1. The open society as liberty -- A brief survey -- Critical reception -- Scientific methodology as social practice -- Critical rationalism -- 2. Capitalism as economic equality and freedom -- Historical context -- Political economy as economic theory and political agenda -- Popper's own concerns with economic theory -- Contemporary uses and misuses of Popper's ideas -- 3. Methodology as applied to individualism --Individualism as method and practice: positivism and sociology -- Situated knowledge: the feminist parallel to situational logic -- Methodological individualism -- 4. The predicament of applied Popperianism -- The moral sense of Popperianism -- Popper and postmodern technoscience -- The Popperian predicament.

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The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the open society. Popper's Legacy examines Popper in the round, analysing in particular his moral and psychological insights. Once Popper's scientific legacy is couched in political and moral terms, it becomes apparent that his concern for individual autonomy does not come at the expense of institutional guidelines and social conventions. Instead, these guidelines turn out to be essential sanctions for individual freedom.

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