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Foreword I. Critical rationalism is a genuinely new philosophical perspective. It is not, however, one systematic view. The development of it by Popper and ...

This paper constitutes one extended argument, which touches on various topics of Critical Rationalism as it was initiated by Karl Popper and further developed (although into different directions) in his aftermath. The result of the argument will be that critical rationalism either offers no solution to the problem of induction at all , or that it amounts, in the last resort, to a kind of Critical Rationalist Inductivism as it were, a version of what I call Good Old Induction. One may think of David Miller as a contemporary representative of what I consider as the ‘no solution’ version of critical rationalism, while Alan Musgrave stands for the version of ‘critical rationalist induction’. Popper’s own writings admit of either interpretation.

Book Information Essays on Realism and Rationalism. Essays on Realism and Rationalism Alan Musgrave , Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi , 1999 , pp. xi + 367 , US$83 . By Alan Musgrave. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi. Pp. xi + 367. US$83.