Pancritical rationalism
Pancritical rationalism (literally "criticism of all things", from pan-, "all", also known as PCR), also called comprehensively critical rationalism (CCR), is a development of critical rationalism and panrationalism originated by William Warren Bartley in his book . PCR attempts to work around the problem of ultimate commitment or infinite regress by decoupling criticism and justification. A pancritical rationalist holds all positions open to criticism, including PCR itself. Such a position in principle never resorts to appeal to authority for justification of stances, since all authorities are held to be intrinsically fallible.
References[]
- William W. Bartley: The Retreat to Commitment (Open Court, 1990), ISBN 0-8126-9127-X.
- William W. Bartley: Rationality versus the Theory of Rationality. In Mario Bunge (Ed.): The Critical Approach to Science and Philosophy (New York: Free Press, 1964).
- William W. Bartley: The Philosophy of Karl Popper. Part III. Rationality, Criticism, and Logic. Philosophia 11:1–2 (February 1982), 121–221.
- David Miller: Comprehensively Critical Rationalism: An Assessment. Critical Rationalism (Open Court, 1994), ISBN 0-8126-9198-9.
- Gerard Radnitzky, William W. Bartley (Eds.): Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality and the Sociology of Knowledge (Open Court, 1987), ISBN 0-8126-9038-9.
- Mariano Artigas: The Ethical Nature of Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge: Including Popper's unpublished comments on Bartley and critical rationalism (Peter Lang Publishing, 1999), ISBN 0-8204-4606-8.
External links[]
- Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for Memetic Progress
- Writings on W.W. Bartley
- The Bartley Institute
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