Popper's "The Myth of the Framework" Reframed

Abstract

The author carefully analyzes Karl Popper's essay “The Myth of the Framework”, reframing it historically and philosophically at the time it was published. He shows that the issue of relativism is the fundamental theme of this essay and that it is at the origin of an important turn towards metaphysics on the part of the respective author, which must be seen in contrast with the initial objectives of his philosophy of science. From this point of view, he confronts Popper's conceptions with those of some philosophers his contemporaries, such as Feyerabend, Quine and Kuhn.