Overcoming the Justificationist Addiction

Subject Areas : Philosophy

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Received: 2014-10-20 Accepted : 2014-10-20 Published : 2007-03-21

Keywords: Justification, rationality, Critical Rationalism, Karl Popper,

Abstract :

It is a simple, though ancient, mistake in the theory ofknowledge to think that justification, in any degree, is central torationality, or even important to it. We must cut for ever the intellectualapron strings that continue to offer us spurious and unneeded security, andreplace the insoluble problem of what our theories are based on by thesoluble problem of how to expose their shortcomings. The paper willoutline (not for the first time) the critical rationalism of Karl Popper,taking account of some recent criticisms. A brief discussion of the statusof the laws of logic provides an illustration of the power of the criticalapproach.