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21. Bertrand Russell

    Critical Assessments

    Edited by Andrew Irvine

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

    This set offers the reader a way into the critical writings on Russell's work on Logic, Mathematics, Language, Knowledge, the World, History of Philosophy, Ethics, Education, Religion and Politics, and on his life and influence....

    Published October 7th 1998 by Routledge
22. The Lesson of this Century

    With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State

    By Karl Popper

    In The Lesson of this Century Popper's purpose is to warn us against the increasing violence and egoism of our society. What solutions can we offer to the problems of the environment, demography and corruption? How can we prevent the violence our society engenders? How can we preserve our...

    Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
23. An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper

    By Roberta Corvi

    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
24. The Myth of the Framework

    In Defence of Science and Rationality

    By Karl Popper

    Edited by M.A. Notturno

    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
25. In Search of a Better World

    Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

    By Karl Popper

    '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
26. Cultural Collisions

    Postmodern Technoscience

    By Raphael Sassower

    In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and...

    Published September 5th 1995 by Routledge
27. The Self and Its Brain

    An Argument for Interactionism

    By John C. Eccles, Karl Popper

    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
28. The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    Series: Routledge Classics

    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,...

    Published August 10th 1977 by Routledge