Psychoanalyzing Historicists?: The Enigmatic Popper

Autor:	Setargew Kenaw
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Philosophy Philosophy of science History and Philosophy of Science Argument Interpretation (philosophy) Pseudoscience General Social Sciences Historicism Political philosophy Psychoanalytic theory Philosophy of education Epistemology
Zdroj:	Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 41:315-332
ISSN:	1572-8587 0925-4560
DOI:	10.1007/s10838-010-9129-6
Popis:	The paper shows how Karl Popper’s critique of ‘historicism’ is permeated by psychoanalytic discourse regardless of his critique that psychoanalysis is one of the exemplars of pseudoscience. Early on, when he was formulating his philosophy of science, Popper had an apparently stringent criterion, viz. falsifiablity, and painstaking analysis. The central argument of this paper is that despite his representation of psychoanalysis as the principal illustration of the category he dubs as ‘pseudoscience’, Popper’s analysis has been infused with psychoanalysis when it comes to his social and political philosophy. Besides, not only was his interpretation of the proponents of ‘historicism’ and the ‘closed’ society mediated by the very concepts of a field which he indicted as pseudoscientific but also he frequently slipped into vacuous and unverifiable accusations forgetting the jurisdiction he formerly accorded to empirical adequacy and logical consistency when examining and assessing theories.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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