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    Popper: Philosophy, Politics and Scientific Method.Geoff Stokes - 1998 - Malden, MA: Polity.
    Karl Popper is a philosopher of knowledge and politics, rationality and freedom. His ideas have won acceptance and provoked controversy among an academic as well as a more general audience. This book aims to broaden our understanding of Popper's philosophy. It is one of the few studies to present his work as an evolving "system of ideas", and to take account of the full range of his writings. The book discusses Popper's early philosophy of politics, science and social science, as (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Popper.Jeremy Shearmur & Geoffrey Stokes (eds.) - 2016 - Cambridge University Press.
    Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His criticism of induction and his falsifiability criterion of demarcation between science and non-science were major contributions to the philosophy of science. Popper's broader philosophy of critical rationalism comprised a distinctive philosophy of social science and political theory. His critique of historicism and advocacy of the open society marked him out as a significant philosopher of freedom and reason. This book sets out the historical and intellectual contexts (...)
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  3. Karl Popper's political philosophy of social science.Geoff Stokes - 1997 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (1):56-79.
    This article examines critically Popper's arguments for a "unity of method" between natural science and social science. It discusses Popper's writings on the goals of science, the objects of scientific inquiry, the logic of scientific method, and the value of objectivity The major argument is that, despite his unifying intention, Popper himself provides good reasons for treating the two sciences differently. Popper proposes that social scientists follow a number of rules that are not required for, and that have no direct (...)
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    Beilharz and the Ethical Project of Socialism.Geoff Stokes - 1998 - Thesis Eleven 52 (1):113-123.
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    Mechanism and method in the evolution of science: A response to Hull. [REVIEW]Geoff Stokes - 1988 - Biology and Philosophy 3 (2):219-223.