Investigating Karl Popper's philosophy of critical rationalism, Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society, Volume 1, explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its fundamental outcomes for the theory of society.

Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti is a sociologist and faculty member at the Institute for Management and Planning Studies (IMPS) in Tehran, Iran. His research interests include epistemology, sociological theory, sociology of modernity and development, and globalization studies.

Introduction

1. Epistemology and the Problem of Objective Knowledge

2. Karl Popper's Critical Rationalism: An Epistemological Critique

3. William Bartley's Pancritical Rationalism

4. Towards a Non-Justitificationist Epistemology

5. Unfalsified Conjectures and Critical Rationality: Towards a New Theory of Rationality

6. Justificationism and the Theory of Society

7. Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Human Action

8. The Theory of Social Order: A Critical Rationalist Understanding

9. Towards a Critical Rationalist Theory of Social Change

10. Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society: A Summary