Back to Darwin and Popper: Criticism, migration of piecemeal conceptual schemes, and the growth of knowledge
Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (2):157-179 (1997)
| Abstract | Popper's thesis that the growth of knowledge lies in the emergence of problems out of criticism and takes place in an autonomous world of products of the human mind (his so-called world-3) raises two questions: (1) Why does criticism lead to new problems, and (2) Why can only a limited number of tentative solutions arise at a given time? I propose the following answer: Criticism entails an overlooked evolutionary world-3 mechanism, namely, the migration of piece meal conceptual schemes from one research tradition to another. Popper by passed the questions above because he relied very heavily on the selective power of criticism. | |||||||||
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