David Miller

David William Miller (19 August 1942 – 20 November 2024) was an English philosopher and a prominent exponent of critical rationalism. He held a position as a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, and also served as the Honorary Treasurer of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. Miller received his education at Woodbridge School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He later pursued studies in logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics, where he became a research assistant to the renowned philosopher Karl Popper. In the 1970s, Miller, along with other scholars, identified flaws in Popper's formal definition of verisimilitude, which sparked considerable academic discussion and research over the subsequent two decades. His book, *Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence*, aimed to articulate, support, and expand upon Popper's approach to scientific knowledge. A central argument in his work is that rationality is not dependent on having good reasons, and indeed, is better off without them as they are often unobtainable and unusable.