Popper and After

by D. C. Stove

Author	: D. C. Stove
Publisher	: Elsevier
Total Pages	: 125
Release	: 2014-05-20
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1483157016

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Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists focuses on a tendency in the philosophy of science, of which the leading representatives are Professor Sir Karl Popper, the late Professor Imre Lakatos, and Professors T. S. Kuhn and P. K. Feyerabend. Their philosophy of science is in substance irrationalist. They doubt, or deny outright, that there can be any reason to believe any scientific theory; and a fortiori they doubt or deny, for example, that there has been any accumulation of knowledge in recent centuries. The book is composed of two parts and Part One explains how these writers succeeded in making irrationalism about science acceptable to readers. Part Two explores the intellectual influence that led these writers to embrace irrationalism about science.

After The Open Society

by Karl Popper

Author	: Karl Popper
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 434
Release	: 2014-05-01
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1135627118

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In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Conjectures and Refutations

by Karl Raimund Popper

Author	: Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Total Pages	: 614
Release	: 2002
Genre	: Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN	: 9780415285940

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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

Kuhn Vs. Popper

by Steve Fuller

Author	: Steve Fuller
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Total Pages	: 174
Release	: 2004
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 9780231134286

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Although Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic ever since. Kuhn's relativistic vision of science as just another human activity, like art or philosophy, triumphed over Popper's more positivistic belief in revolutionary discoveries and the superiority of scientific provability. Steve Fuller argues that not only has Kuhn's dominance had an adverse impact on the field but both thinkers have been radically misinterpreted in the process.

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

by Karl Popper

Author	: Karl Popper
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 545
Release	: 2005-11-04
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1134470029

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Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.

All Life is Problem Solving

by Karl Popper

Author	: Karl Popper
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 180
Release	: 2013-04-15
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1135972982

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'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the Preface All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

by Ian Jarvie

Author	: Ian Jarvie
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 242
Release	: 2005-08-12
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1134709978

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Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe. This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.

Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945

by Malachi Haim Hacohen

Author	: Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 628
Release	: 2002-03-04
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 9780521890557

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This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.

Realism and the Aim of Science

by Karl Popper

Author	: Karl Popper
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 466
Release	: 2013-04-15
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1135858950

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Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science. Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non-justificationist theory of knowledge: science aims at true explanatory theories, yet it can never prove, or justify, any theory to be true, not even if is a true theory. Science must continue to question and criticise all its theories, even those that happen to be true. Realism and the Aim of Science presents Popper’s mature statement on scientific knowledge and offers important insights into his thinking on problems of method within science.