Philosophy Of Science Without History Of Science

Belief May Be A Regrettably Unavoidable Biological Weakness To Be Kept Under The Control Of Criticism: But Commitment Is For Popper An Outright Crime.

It Would Be Wrong To Assume That One Must Stay With A Research Programme Until It Has Exhausted All Its Heuristic Power, That One Must Not Introduce A Rival Programme Before Everybody Agrees That The Point Of Degeneration Has Probably Been Reached.

In Degenerating Programmes, However, Theories Are Fabricated Only In Order To Accommodate Known Facts

Blind Commitment To A Theory Is Not An Intellectual Virtue: It Is An Intellectual Crime.

Einstein's Results Again Turned The Tables And Now Very Few Philosophers Or Scientists Still Think That Scientific Knowledge Is, Or Can Be, Proven Knowledge.