Habermas radicalized Popper’s critical rationalism via American pragmatism

Evidence

Habermas made the following move. He took Popper’s philosophy of science as a first stage of self-criticism by positivism; he radicalized this first stage by means of a pragmatic perspective that brought the model of discovery in the natural sciences into an even more general context than Popper did; then he himself drafted a pragmatic perspective for Popper’s idea of critical, rational discussion. He provided a pragmatic justification for Popper’s logic of scientific discovery in order to make room for the logic and the pragmatic foundation of the dialectical type of research, and ultimately to provide cultural restraints for the technical rationalism that had been absolutized both by logical empiricism and by Popper’s critical rationalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2417

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417; Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2416; Popper’s philosophy of science rejected every core premise of Critical Theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2412 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism. #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2417
• Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2416