Popper and His Popular Critics

• Introduction.- Preface.- Acknowledgement.- A. Prelims.- A1. On Human Rules about God’s World A2. In search for Rules.- A3. Rules against Mock-Criticism.- A4. Rules against excessive defensiveness.- A5. Against the Bouncers in the Gates of Science.-  A5. Duhem, Quine and Kuhn.- B. Popper and his Popular Critics.-  B1. Karl Raimund Popper B2. Kuhn’s Way.- B3. Feyerabend’s Proposal B4. Imre Lakatos.- B5. A Touch of Malice.- C. In a Nutshell.- C1. The Essential Popper.- C2. Kuhn on Pluralism and Incommensurability.- C3. Paul Feyerabend and Rational Pluralism.- C4. Lakatos on the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs.-  C5. Epilogue: Civilization and its Self-Defense.- D. References.- D1. Appendix 1: The Biological Base of Dogmatism.- D2. Appendix 2: Popper on Explanation.- D3. Bibliography.- D4. Index of names.- D5. Index of Subjects.

"Joseph Agassi has produced a useful, thought-provoking, and entertaining collection of essays on Popper's philosophy and those of his most popular critics. ... As a distinctive and provocative perspective on both the personalities and the arguments of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lakatos, Popper and His Popular Critics is a must-read for anyone interested in the defining debates between these celebrated philosophers." (Steven William Clarke, Science and Education, Vol. 25, 2016)