Keyword

falsificationism

Description: A philosophy of science holding that scientific theories should make testable predictions that could, in principle, be shown false by evidence.

Primary topic: Philosophy, Science, and History (58%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q11410588

OpenAlex ID: keywords/falsificationism

The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

1959 · T. W. Hutchison, Karl R. Popper · Economica · 7,499

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

1964 · T. W. Hutchison, Karl R. Popper · Economica · 4,197

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

1965 · Mary Hesse, Karl R. Popper · The Philosophical Quarterly · 4,189

The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

1959 · M. G. Kendall, Karl R. Popper · Biometrika · 2,826

Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach.

1986 · John Harp, Andrew Sayer · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2,603

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1984 · Dudley Shapere · Boston studies in the philosophy of science · 2,129

What is this thing called science?

2014 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,568

Logic of Scientific Discovery, The

2010 · Encyclopedia of Research Design · 1,545

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

2005 · Karl Popper · Routledge eBooks · 1,152

Realism and the Aim of Science

2013 · Karl Popper · Routledge eBooks · 1,063

A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection.

1994 · Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater · Psychological Review · 1,054

Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?

1970 · T. S. Kuhn · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 739

The inexact and separate science of economics

1992 · Choice Reviews Online · 725

Logik der Forschung

2013 · Karl Popper · Akademie Verlag eBooks · 435

The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

1977 · Karl R. Popper · Systematic Zoology · 348

P opper, K arl R

2005 · A. Fagot‐Largeault · Encyclopedia of Biostatistics · 337

The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis: Twenty-Five Years Later

1996 · K. Viswanath, John R. Finnegan · Annals of the International Communication Association · 335

II—Criticism and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

1969 · Imre Lakatos · Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback) · 334

Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method

2001 · Carol E. Cleland · Geology · 295

Experiments in ecology and management: Their logics, functions and interpretations

1990 · A. J. UNDERWOOD · Australian Journal of Ecology · 254

Epistemologic Inquiries in Evidence-Based Medicine

2009 · Benjamin Djulbegovic, Gordon H. Guyatt, et al. · Cancer Control · 218

How scientific is the science in ethnopharmacology? Historical perspectives and epistemological problems

2009 · Jürg Gertsch · Journal of Ethnopharmacology · 209

What Is This Thing Called Science: An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods

1985 · Alan F. Chalmers · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 198

Social Theory in the Twentieth Century

1998 · Patrick Baert · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 193

The ‘corroboration’ of theories

1979 · Hilary Putnam · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 191

Works count: 2,654

Citation count: 45,170