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    David Miller

    contemporaryCritical Rationalism

    b. 1942

    David Miller is a British philosopher best known for his work on critical rationalism and his defense and extension of Karl Popper's philosophy of science. He has made significant contributions to the philosophy of probability, decision theory, and the logic of scientific discovery.

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    Notable Achievements

    1

    Developed and defended Popperian critical rationalism

    2

    Authored 'Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence' (1994)

    3

    Contributed to the theory of verisimilitude and truthlikeness

    4

    Edited 'Popper Selections' (1985), a widely-used anthology

    5

    Advanced work on the logic of decision and probability

    Positions & Arguments

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    Rights & Liberty

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    The atomistic view of the self can undermine liberal society

    Social Contract

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    The atomistic view of the self can undermine liberal society

    Democracy & Governance

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    Global democratic procedures can help international organizations avoid the complications of politicization.

    Skepticism

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

    claim

    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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