ABSTRACT
The first quandary regarding Karl Popper and his ideas has to do with whether his ideas about epistemology, science, and methodology are to be considered part of the establishment of the twentieth century, however defined, or a radical rejection of this same establishment. Even the ideas of Carl Hempel, Robert Merton, and Thomas Kuhn have had a greater exposure and coverage, even popularity, than Popper’s, and conferences in their honour, and academic positions for their disciples have been abundant. Technoscience is a late twentieth-century term used by Jean-François Lyotard as well as Stephen Toulmin as early as the 1970s to describe the inter-relatedness and mutual dependence of science and technology. Though Popper doesn’t address the Holocaust directly in his philosophical discussions of science and its progress, and though Popper allows a great deal of latitude to the veracity and ultimate credibility of any claim, his method remains critical and rational — it probes while remaining skeptical.
