The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality is a 1994 book by the philosopher Karl Popper.
The book is a collection of papers "prepared on different occasions as lectures for non-specialist audiences" (p. x).
The author formulates a premise for the book as: I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth (p. xii).
See also
- Critical rationalism
- Myth of the Given
Notes
References
- Karl R. Popper (1994). The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Description & Contents, including excerpt of chapter 1, "The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions." London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13555-9
- _____ (1987). "The Myth of the Framework," Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning, 98, pp. 35- 62. An earlier publication of ch. 2 above.
- [Book review] (2011). "The Myth of the Framework: in defense [sic] of science and rationality, K.Popper Dec 18 - Dec 20, 2011," pp. 1-9 via http://www.chalmers.se/sv/institutioner/math/Sidor/default.aspx.
- Alexander Bird (1996). "The Myth of the Framework, by Karl Popper; Knowledge and the Body: Mind Problem by Karl Popper," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47(1), pp. 149-151.
- Alan Forrester (2010). "The Myth of the Framework," critical rationalism blog, October 3.
