The Myth of the Framework

The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality is a 1994 book by the philosopher Karl Popper.

The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

Cover of the first edition, showing Karl Popper in 1988
Author	Karl Popper
Language	English
Subject	Philosophy of science
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	1994
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	230
ISBN	978-0415113205

The book is a collection of papers "prepared on different occasions as lectures for non-specialist audiences" (p. x).

The author formulates a premise for the book as: I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth (p. xii).

See also

• Critical rationalism
• Myth of the Given

References

• Karl R. Popper (1994). The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Description & Contents, including excerpt of chapter 1, "The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions." London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13555-9
• _____ (1987). "The Myth of the Framework," Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning, 98, pp. 35- 62. An earlier publication of ch. 2 above.
• [Book review] (2011). "The Myth of the Framework: in defense [sic] of science and rationality, K.Popper Dec 18 - Dec 20, 2011," pp. 1-9 via http://www.chalmers.se/sv/institutioner/math/Sidor/default.aspx.
• Alexander Bird (1996). "The Myth of the Framework, by Karl Popper; Knowledge and the Body: Mind Problem by Karl Popper," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47(1), pp. 149-151.
• Alan Forrester (2010). "The Myth of the Framework," critical rationalism blog, October 3.