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51. The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge

    By Karl Popper

    Edited by Troels Eggers Hansen

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’ Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science,...

    Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
52. After The Open Society

    Selected Social and Political Writings

    By Karl Popper

    Edited by Piers Norris Turner, Jeremy Shearmur

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the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...

    Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
53. The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

    By James Atkinson

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
54. The Politics of Logic

    Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

    By Paul Livingston

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...

    Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
55. Beyond The Tractatus Wars

    The New Wittgenstein Debate

    Edited by Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery

    Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate...

    Published July 10th 2011 by Routledge
56. Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study in Norms and Values

    By Colin Smith

    First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature if extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analysis...

    Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
57. Challenging Moral Particularism

    Edited by Matjaž Potrc, Vojko Strahovnik, Mark Lance

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

    Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
58. Wittgenstein

    By William Child

    Series: The Routledge Philosophers

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His contributions to the philosophy of language, mind, meaning and psychology - as well as to logic, mathematics and epistemology...

    Published April 26th 2011 by Routledge
59. The Open Society and Its Enemies

    By Karl Popper

    Series: Routledge Classics

    ‘If 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. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’ -...

    Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
60. Niklas Luhmann

    By Christian Borch

    Series: Key Sociologists

    Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann’s multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them with the work of other key social theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and...

    Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge