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Preface
Contents
Contributors
Karl Popper: His Philosophy and Science
1 Knowledge and Criticism
1.1 The Dangers of Dogmatism
1.2 Criticism Needs a Boost
2 From Demarcation to a New Concept of Reason
2.1 Basic Statements
2.2 Corroboration
3 The Popperian Challenge
3.1 Anti-Justificationist Extremism
3.2 Scientific Practice
3.3 New Concept of Reason
References
Physics and Cosmology
Popper and the Quantum Controversy
1 Introduction
2 Popper and Quantum Mechanics
2.1 Popper's Early Concerns with Quantum Theory (1934)

2.2 The Turning Point: From Philosophy to Physics (Ca. 1967-1968)
2.3 The Mature View: Popper's Experiment (The 1980s)
3 Epilogue: Popper's Legacy in Quantum Physics
3.1 Kim and Shih, and the Real Popper Experiment
3.2 Popper's Ideas in Contemporary Physics: The Revival of Indeterminism
References
Popper's Experiment
References
Karl Popper and Modern Cosmology: His Thoughts and Their Impact
1 Introduction
2 Popper on Cosmology
2.1 Einstein's Influence on Popper
2.2 Does the Universe Expand?
2.3 Finite-Age Cosmological Models
2.4 Against the Big Bang

2.5 Confirmation for General Proposition
3 Confidence as an Alternative to Logical Probability
3.1 Confidence Resolution of Induction Problem
4 Extended Likelihood as Objective Logical Probability
4.1 Postulate of Ignorance
5 Confirmation Problems
5.1 Bayesian Reasoning in the Conjunction Fallacy
5.2 Likelihood Reasoning in the Conjunction Fallacy
6 Prosecutor's Fallacy
7 Traces of Likelihood-Based Learning in Infants
8 Discussion
References
Popper on Quantification and Identity
1 Introduction
2 The Genesis of Popper's Ideas on Logic

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