Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability" is one of the few philosophical ideas that physicists regularly mention. But science is far more complex than it suggests, says Robert P Crease As a ...

Robert Matthews’s examination of Karl Popper’s criterion that scientific hypotheses are defined by their falsifiability, and of alternatives like Bayesian probability, provides an illuminating view ...

British philosopher of science Karl Popper believed in the doctrine of falsifiability, i.e., that hypotheses can be tested and refuted. That is the difference between ...

Philosophy, especially metaphysics, is not easily distinguished from science at the borderline since both are realistic pursuits of truth, with their theories held open to criticism. It is not useful ...

Philosophical Studies was founded in 1950 by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars to provide a periodical dedicated to work in analytic philosophy. The journal remains devoted to the publication of ...

"I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme—a possible framework for testable scientific theories." To biologists, these ...

The multiverse hypothesis, while offering potential explanations for fundamental physics parameters, faces criticism due to its lack of falsifiability, a core tenet of scientific methodology.

The LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was founded in 1946 by Sir Karl Popper. Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) is widely seen as one of the 20th century’s foremost philosophers of ...