Conjectures and Refutations

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance CONJECTURES 1 Science:
Conjectures and Refutations Appendix: Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science
2 The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science 3 Three Views
Concerning Human Knowledge 4 Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition 5 Back to
the Presocratics 6 A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein 7 Kant's
Critique and Cosmology 8 On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics 9 Why are
the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality? 10 Truth,
Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge REFUTATIONS 11 The
Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics 12 Language and the Body-Mind
Problem 13A Note on the Body-Mind Problem 14 Self-Reference and Meaning in
Ordinary Language 15 What is Dialectic? 16 Prediction and Prophecy in the Social
Sciences 17 Public Opinion and Liberal Principles 18 Utopia and Violence 19 The
History of Our Time: An Optimist's View 20 Humanism and Reason 

Autoreninfo

Karl Popper (1902-1994). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.