Out of Error

David Miller was an assistant to Karl Popper in the 1960s, and worked closely with him for the next thirty years. He taught at the University of Warwick, UK, and has also held appointments at universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, and the USA. He has been Honorary Treasurer of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Secretary of the British Logic Colloquium, and Chair of the British National Committee for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. His publications include Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence (1994), and many papers in logic, probability, and the philosophy of science. His anthology Popper Selections (originally A Pocket Popper) has been translated into Albanian, Bengali (in part), Chinese, Georgian, German, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Contents: Preface; Karl Popper: a scientific memoir; Three stages of critical rationalism; What do arguments achieve?; Falsifiability: more than a convention?; Induction: a problem solved; Back to the frying pan; Being an absolute sceptic; How little uniformity need an inductive inference presuppose?; Critical rationalism's debt to Tarski; Beauty: a road to the truth?; Thirty years of language dependence; Is paraconsistent logic ever used?; Making falsification bite; In Memoriam; Bibliography; Index.