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All Life is Problem Solving
Karl Raimund PopperConsisting of 13 occasional pieces (lectures, seminar contributions, radio broadcasts and magazine articles) spanning the years from 1958 until 1993, this volume presents an insight into the diversity of Karl Popper's key interests ...
An Unended Quest:
Karl Raimund PopperPopper also explains some of the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.
Realism and the Aim of Science
Karl Raimund PopperRealism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Karl Raimund PopperConjectures 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.
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics
Karl Raimund PopperQuantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Karl Raimund PopperThroughout the book, Popper stresses the importance of our ability to learn from our mistakes. Conjectures and Refutations is essential reading, and a book to be returned to again and again.
Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment Volume I
PreviewThese three volumes of previously unpublished essays, which originate in the congress 'Karl Popper 2002' held in Vienna to mark the centenary of Popper's birth, provide an up-to-date examination of many aspects of Popper's life and thought.
The Poverty of Historicism
Karl Raimund PopperFirst published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism
Karl Raimund PopperFirst published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Raimund PopperIf in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them.
Returning to Karl Popper: A reassessment of his politics and ...
Alexander NaranieckiChmielewski, A. (2002) 'A review of Malachi Haim Hacohen's Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945', in: The Political Quarterly, Blackwell, Oxford: 114- 116 Chmielewski, A., and Popper. K. 1999. 'The future is open: a conversation ...
Karl Popper: Science
PreviewSir Karl Popper (1902-1994) is one of the most controversial and widely read philosophers of the 20th century.
Karl Popper
Phil ParvinKarl Popper is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and the history of ideas.
Lezione Di Questo Secolo:
Karl Raimund PopperThe interviews in this volume were originally given to the Italian journalist Giancarlo Bosetti. The volume also includes the transcript of an interview about the moral dangers of television not previously available in English.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Raimund PopperFirst published in English in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge and is one of the most widely read books about science written in the twentieth century.
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and ...
Malachi Haim HacohenThis 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.
The Cambridge Companion to Popper
PreviewInterview with Malachi Haim Hacohen at Popper's home (Penn). (holograph.). 26 January. 1984b. Letter to John Stachel, 15 March. Popper Collection, Hoover Institute Archives, Stanford University (292:12). 1991. 'Ein Gespräch mit Karl R.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl R. PopperOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Karl PopperConjectures 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.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Karl PopperConjectures 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.
The New York Times Book Reviews 2000
New York Times StaffBut now one can consult Malachi Haim Hacohen's "Karl Popper — The Formative Years, 1902-1945." Hacohen has labored long and hard in the archives, and the result is a magnificent work of scholarship. Karl Popper was born in Vienna.
All Life is Problem Solving
Karl PopperThis 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.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl PopperDescribed by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge.
The Poverty of Historicism
Karl PopperOn its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.
Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life: Between ...
George PattisonIn a recent biography, Malachi Haim Hacohen has argued that at more or less the same time Karl Popper was wrestling with similar issues and, for a brief period, committed himself to Marxism by virtue of a 'leap of faith' and a teleological ...
Realism and the Aim of Science: From the Postscript to The ...
Karl PopperThus if realism is right, the aim of the subjectivist theory of finding a secure subjective basis upon which to erect our knowledge of the world—and sound reasons for a belief in the reality of the world—is an unrealizable and, indeed, ...
Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy
John GrayJohn Gray assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers including J. S. Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Popper, F. A Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and explores their mutual connections and differences.
Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Spectacular Failure in ...
Cheryl A. LoganMalachi Haim Hacohen, “Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism: Karl Popper, Jewish Iden- tity, and 'Central European Culture,'” Journal ofModern History 71 (1999): 105–149; Fritz Ringer, Decline ofthe German Mandarins: The German Academic ...
Antisemitism and the left: On the return of the Jewish question
Robert Fine67 Arendt, Origins, 73. 68 Arendt, Origins, 74. 69 Arendt, Jewish Writings, 467. 70 Malachi Haim Hacohen writes that the philosopher Karl Popper 'spoke little of the Jewish predicament' but 'rejected all nationalism, German and Jewish alike.
Karl Marx: A Reader
Karl MarxA selection of Karl Marx's most important writings are contained in this volume. It was designed as a companion to Elster's "An introduction to Karl Marx" but may be used alone.
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