Objective Knowledge in Social Sciences and Humanities: Karl Popper and Beyond

The volume outlines and addresses the significance of Popper\u2019s philosophy for the social sciences and the humanities in relation to several, and crucial, questions: how we may get \u2018objective\u2019 knowledge out of \u2018subjective\u2019 perceptions; how \u2018induction\u2019 and \u2018deduction\u2019 should interact; how we can make policies or legal recommendations based on \u2018objective knowledge\u2019; how social agents\u2019 knowledge should be modelled