How to make critical rationalism comprehensive and non-paradoxical

Taliga, Miloš, 1977-

How to make critical rationalism comprehensive and non-paradoxical / Miloš Taliga. -- In this paper, I try to show how the ambition of William Bartley, the founder of comprehensively critical rationalism, can be realized, i.e. how critical rationalism can be comprehensive. I argue that the alleged paradox of comprehensively critical rationalism, formulated, among others, by Bartley himself, depends on a faulty understanding of criticizability. I therefore propose a new understanding of criticizability, and argue that under the new understanding there is no paradox of comprehensively critical rationalism. Finally, I try to explain how critical rationalism can be comprehensive, i.e. without any concession to irrationalism, or to any dogmatic faith, including the faith in reason.

In Synthese : an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. -- Dordrecht : Springer Nature, 2022. -- ISSN 0039-7857. -- ISSN 1573-0964. -- Vol. 200, no. 5 (2022), pp. [1-15]