Excellent review, highlighting the problem with individual experience. We will use this book next semester to discuss issues of dominant discourse in theory and how that discourse so often includes beliefs passed on by personal experience without the critical distance provided by theoretical analysis. Consider that many of the cutting edge problems we are dealing with today, like adversarialism, like distributive injustice, like the privatizing of disciplinary authority are broad enough that we need more than one perspective to situate them, to examine their claims in good faith. These attempts involve the formulation of theories which, if they are to explain anomalies which exist with respect to earlier theories, must go beyond existing knowledge and therefore require a leap of the imagination . For this reason, Popper places special emphasis on the role played by the independent creative imagination in the formulation of theory. . . .
Popper stresses . . .
The Positive Aspects of Capitalism by TR Young. The Negative Aspects of Capitalism by TR Young. Thanks to Tyshae Jefferson for bringing this series to my attention. Notice how the theoretical argument crosses disciplines. Public Justification in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.