David Miller (philosopher)

David W. Miller ( born August 19, 1942 in Watford) is an English philosopher and prominent exponent of critical rationalism. He teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom.

In 1964 he graduated from the London School of Economics is a study of logic and philosophy of science. A short time later he became an assistant of Karl Popper. In a series of articles in the 1970s discovered Miller and other defects in Popper's formal definition of verisimilitude, an aspect of Popper's philosophy, who had previously received little attention. A large number of publications, also by Miller, who tried to rescue Popper's approach, appeared in the episode the next two decades on this topic.

Miller's Critical Rationalism (1994 ) is an attempt to explain Popper's philosophical approach to expand and process criticism. A central, " not quite new " statement is that reason does not depend on good reasons. There is neither this nor were they useful, if it existed; Reason is better without them.