Preface. I. Science and the Search for Truth. Critical Rationalism and the Nature of Epistemology. II. Transcendental Realism and Rational Heuristics. Critical Rationalism and the Problem of Method. III. The Conflict of Science and Religion. Religious Metaphysics and the Scientific World View. IV. Social Science and Moral Philosophy. A Critical Approach to Value Problems in the Social Science. V. The Economic Tradition. Economics as a Research Program for Social Science. VI. Hermeneutics and Economics. A Criticism of Hermeneutical Thinking in the Social Sciences. VII. Social Science, Jurisprudence and Law. Legal Science as Social Technology and Politics. VIII. Is Socialism Inevitable? Historical Prophecy and the Possibilities of Reason. IX. Liberalism Revisited. The Ideal of Liberty and the Problem of the Social Order. Name index. Subject index.