David Miller

David William Miller (19 August 1942 in Watford – 20 November 2024 ) was an English philosopher and prominent exponent of critical rationalism. He taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, where he was a Reader in Philosophy. He had been an Honorary Treasurer of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.

He was educated at Woodbridge School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1964 he began to study logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics. Soon afterwards he became one of Karl Popper's research assistants. In a series of papers in the 1970s, Miller and others uncovered defects in Popper's formal definition of verisimilitude, previously a mostly ignored aspect of Popper's theory. A substantial literature developed in the two decades following, including papers by Miller, to assess the remediability of Popper's approach.

Miller's Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence

Books by David Miller

Croquet and How to Play It with Rupert Thorp, 1966 Popper Selections, 1985 Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence, 1994 Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism, 2006