KARL POPPER AND DARWINISM
Keywords:
Karl Popper, falsificationism, theory of evolution and natural selection, Darwinism as metaphyscial researh program, Darwinism as scientific theoryAbstract
Karl Popper is one of the greatest philosophers of twentieth century and his influence on philosophy of science is obvious and immense. However, his thinking about evolution and Darwinism was mistaken throughout his whole career, despite some changes. He never fully understood the true nature of the theory of natural selection and that is why he didn't see it as a genuine scientific theory but as a metaphysical research program. In this paper it is argued that the Darwinian theory of evolution is genuine scientific theory and that it can be tested, that it is not tautology and that it makes falsifiable predictions and retrodictions.
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