In Defense of Self-Applicable Critical Rationalism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is criticism that, recognizing no position as final, and refusing to bind itself by the shallow shibboleths of any sect or school, creates that serene philosophic temper which loves truth for its own sake, and loves it not less because it is unattainable.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 0. The Problem： explication of the concept of rationality, in particular rationality in inquiry
• 0.1. The explicandum.
• 0.2. The explicatum.
• 1. Performance on the Object Level of the Two Global Approaches, the Justificationist and the Non-justificationist Approach
• 1.1. Justification Philosophy on the Object Level
• 1.2. The Non-justificationist or Criticist Context on the Object Level
• 2. The Meta-level： The Level on Which the Question of the Self-applicability of the Justficationist and of the Criticist Context is Raised
• 2.0. Comment on the Present Use of 'Object Level' and 'Meta Level'
• 2.1. The Qusetion of the Self-applicability of the Justficationist Context
• 2.2. Not-selfapplicable Critical Rationalism
• 2.3. Self-applicable Critical Relationalism
• 3. On the Alleged Semantical paradoxes of Self-applicable Critical Rationalism
• Concluding Remarks
• FOOTNOTES
• REFERENCES