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Critical Investigation on Logic of Popper's Social Science

Man-Yoep Park 1

1서울시립대학교

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ABSTRACT

This Paper is focused on the problem ‘Critical Investigation on Logic of Popper's Social Science’. In this paper, problems like a justification of logic of Popper's social science will be discussed. On the basis of these problematic consciousness, I will take as following problems: (1) Positivism debate and Popper's falsificationism. (Popper is a peculiar philosopher that claim to stand for utility of false.) (2) Popper's methodology of social science that is suggested in Popper's The Logic of Social Science. Also, I will discuss critical point of view on Popper's methodology of social science centering around Adorno, Habermas and Feyerabend. It is well known to us that Popper's social philosophy is based on ‘critical rationalism’. In other words, his social philosophy is called ‘open society’. But his critical rationalism that is centering on construction of theory has a limitation that should be divided the boundary of life and philosophy. Therefore we can conclude that Popper is politically conservatist. My critical point on Popper's methodology of social science can be abstracted as follows. First, methodology of science and social science can't be compatible as a same category system. Second, Popper's methodology of social science can't be applied in our korean society that is losted distributive justice.

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