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The Political Thought of Karl Popper
The Political Thought of Karl Popper offers a controversial treatment of Popper's ideas about politics, informed by Shearmur's personal knowledge of Popper together with research on unpublished material in the Popper archive at the Hoover Institute.While sympathetic to Popper's overall approach,...
Published October 30th 1996 by Routledge
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An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper
This is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical and political thought of Karl Popper, now available in English. It is divided into three parts; the first part provides a biography of Popper; the second part looks at his works and recurrent themes, and the third part assesses his critics....
Published October 30th 1996 by Routledge
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Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem
In Defence of Interaction
Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Popper delivered in 1969, this volume raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions....
Published December 27th 1995 by Routledge
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The Myth of the Framework
In Defence of Science and Rationality
In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.Sir Karl discusses such...
Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
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In Search of a Better World
Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years
'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the...
Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge
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Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics
From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics 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....
Published July 26th 1989 by Routledge
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The Open Universe
An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Open Universe 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....
Published December 14th 1988 by Routledge
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Realism and the Aim of Science
From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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...
Published August 28th 1985 by Routledge
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The Self and Its Brain
An Argument for Interactionism
The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind...
Published February 22nd 1984 by Routledge