David Miller
1942–2024 · English
English philosopher and exponent of critical rationalism who developed defects in Popper’s verisimilitude theory.
In the record
- Born
- 1942, Watford
- Training
- Logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics; research assistant to Karl Popper
- Affiliation
- Critical rationalism; University of Warwick Department of Philosophy
Key works
- Croquet and How to Play It (1966)
- Popper Selections (1985)
- Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence (1994)
- Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism (2006)
Sebastian reads Miller
There is a David Miller in the Popperian lineage — a philosopher of critical rationalism, defender of verisimilitude, someone who found real problems in Popper’s formal arguments and did the technical work to say so with precision. That figure matters in the philosophy of science, and the work of critique-within-a-tradition is not small. But the depth-psychology library held here does not cross into analytic epistemology, and Miller’s project — the logic of falsification, the formal measure of truth-approximation, the defense of rationalism against its critics — lives outside the gravitational field of Jung, Hillman, Corbin, and the figures whose thinking seba.health is built to amplify. Linking him to another thinker in this lineage would manufacture a connection the texts do not support. When a question about Popperian philosophy of science arrives at this address, the honest move is to name the limit and redirect: the tradition this site reads does not run through critical rationalism.