Falseabilidade enquanto fundamento do progresso científico: uma reflexão à luz do pensamento epistemológico de Karl Popper

Abstract

This scientific monograph aims to reflect on falsifiability as a basis for scientific progress. The research is based on a critique of the verificationist tendency on which modern scientific rationality was based, which monopolized and dogmatized science by defending the capacity of induction to corroborate the scientific nature of theories. By way of verifiability, the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle conceived as scientific, exclusively, those theories whose object of study could be treated through empirical experience. For this reason, all statements that did not comply with the established methodological parameters were expunged from the scope of science, as they had no meaning whatsoever. This stance called into question the hypothetical or conjectural nature of scientific knowledge, thus affecting the advancement of science. However, to solve the problem of induction and eradicate this scientific dogmatism, falsifiability is used, which aims to include in the status of science even statements without the possibility of verification, a position that would allow the progress of science. Here is the research problem: to what extent does the falsifiability proposed by Popper underpin scientific progress? The research has the general objective of reflecting on falsifiability as a criterion for demarcation and progress of scientific knowledge. The theoretical framework of this monograph is based on Karl Popper's falsifiability, which takes shape in the author's works. The research method is bibliographical review, supported by textual and comparative hermeneutics. With falsifiability, the aim is to abandon the scientific dogmatism evident in the modern paradigm method, since this new criterion enables critical examination of theories. The structure of the work comprises three (3) chapters(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)