books by Karl Popper     books:       The open society and its enemies1 review Sir Karl Raimund Popper Essential reading if democracy is to survive Karl Popper was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. In The Open Society and It's Enemies he presents not only the case for democracy (an open society) but also the case against tyranny (a closed society), no matter how benevolent any given tyranny purports to be. Popper also explains why many people are still attracted to tyranical forms of government -- whether fascist or ...             Unended Quest: an Intellectual Autobiography1 review Karl Popper Open Court, 1976 An insight into one of the Greats Karl Popper is yet another exceptional student of the Austrial school that produced a plethora of scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and economists at the turn of the century. The only other comparison would be the extraordinary number of scientists from tiny Scotland that almost single-handedly began the Industrial Revolution. Popper and friends were Renaissance men, masterful in ...             A World of Propensities1 review Karl Raimund Popper Thoemmes Press, 1997 The future is open In these two late lectures Karl Popper explains briefly his vision on some problems which haunted him all life long, like truth, knowledge, freedom and evolution. He defends rightly Tarski's proposition that objective truth is correspondence of a statement with the facts and that absolute truth can be described as follows: if an unambiguously formulated statement is true in one language, then ...             Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics2 reviews Karl Raimund Popper Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 1985 A world of propensities and metaphysical dreams During the early 1950s Popper prepared almost a thousand pages of manuscript for publication as a companion volume to the English translation of his "Logik Der Forschung" (1934). This material started as a series of appendices to "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" but some of them grew into a book to be called "Postscrip to the LSD: After Twenty Years" (from 1934 to 1954). "The Logic of ...             POVERTY OF HISTORICISM7 reviews KARL R POPPER ROUTLEDGE, 1960 The fallacy of Utopian Engineering Sir Popper is considered one of the most important thinkers in the area of philosophy of science. "The Poverty of Historicism" despite its complexity, carries a fundamental simple message: prediction over the course of history (its social and economic implications) is nothing more than a fantasy, an illusion. And this assertion is based on the principle that the events/persons responsible for ...             Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality4 reviews Karl Popper Routledge, 1996 Popper is essential reading Excellent, stimulating essays with some surprising and appealing ideas. Also some repetition and some dull essays. A very good book indeed. Popper was a maverick; his ideas will enrich your thinking even if you don't agree with them altogether.             Popper Selections7 reviews Karl Raimund Popper Princeton University Press, 1985 Critical Rationalism Popper's favorite philosophers are the pre-Socratics. He celebrates them for their willingness to entertain/invite/encourage alternative points of view. The pre-Socratics sought to explain the universe ( a goal modern philososphy/science has lost sight of) but no one theory was viewed as absolute, rather each theory was viewed as a proposition that could then be honed/improved/altered by further ...             Unended Quest1 review Taylor & Francis, 2007 ...and What a Quest it Was!! Routledge Classics has done us all - fans of clear thinking, clear writing and great literature - a real service by re-releasing Karl Popper's intellectual biography "An Unended Quest". In additiion to offering informative accounts of how he came about his greatest theories, he gives us entertaining life stories as well. As we would expect from Popper, this book is set up similar to his ...             The logic of scientific discovery17 reviews Karl Raimund Popper Scientific Editions, 1961 Very interesting I have to ask myself, "What is the basis for my scientific knowledge?" On a daily basis, as I am a chemist. I have often been struck by arguments for "induction" as lacking credibility, because how can one argue of probabilities with an unknown sample size? Popper argues that a proposing scientific hypothesis is an inductive act, but it is a creative act not a logical one, but that scientific ...             The open society and its enemies (Harper torchbooks)37 reviews Karl Raimund Popper Harper & Row, 1967 Philosophy of History: Prove untruth, not truth To Popper, science is a process of "conjectures and refutations"-- advancing bold conjectures about the state of the world and then trying to refute them. "Even in the study of history, objectivity should be sought in the institutions and traditions of a discipline. It is only through the give and take of open criticism and the ongoing interplay of many different kinds of biases that anything ...             Realism and the Aim of Science.2 reviews Karl R. Popper Hutchinson, 1983 Most impressive defense of Popper's epistemology Popper has presented his controversial views of induction and the nature of scientific discovery in a number of essays and books, but no where does he advance some of his seemingly paradoxical views better than in "Realism and the Aim of Science." At first blush, Popper's views of the nature of scientific inquiry seem to defy common sense. He believes, for instance, that the distinguishing ...             Objective Knowledge8 reviews Karl R. Popper Oxford University Press, 1972 A Splendid intro to common-sense epistemology! To those who've not read Popper before, I highly reccomend that you statrt now- and with this book. To those who have experienced these pages first-hand, you understand why Popper and the theories herein are so important. As short-windedly as possible, I'd like to say how I came to read him. I had forayed into philosophy through Ayn Rand who managed to convince me- as she does so many ...             Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 2)14 reviews Karl Raimund Popper Princeton University Press, 1971 Comment on review of 16 sept. 2003 As a total fan of Popper (the book is a must read), I can't stand by and let criticism on Popper pass by, without trying to falsify this criticism. So here's my comments on the review of September 16 (while at the same time touching some - of the many - subjects that the book treats). The review criticises Popper for calling Plato's philosophy totalitarian. The reviewer argues that: 1. the ...             Lesson of this Century : With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State1 review Karl Popper Routledge, 2000 Freedom In these interviews with Giancarlo Bosetti, Karl Popper gives us a rare appreciation of current political events, like the Cuba crisis of 1962, Gorbachev's Russia, the fall of the Marxist regimes in Eastern Europe or the Balkan problem (ethnic identity as a State doctrine). His main purpose is individual liberty (freedom of opposition, democracy). The other side of the French Revolution coin, ...             Conjectures and Refutations9 reviews Karl Raimund Popper HarperCollins Publishers, 1968 How do we know what we know? We don't, we only guess... We guess. We make up a story that explains the phenomena we observe. Why is there night and day? Because the sun rises from the east and sets itself down in the west. Aha! Let's check that. Let's go east. After a while we realize that we're living on a sphere and so we know our story is wrong. The sun does not rise up and set. So what does it do? We're on a ball and the sun is above and it moves ...             In Search of a Better World2 reviews Karl Popper Routledge, 1992 An enlightened defense of tolerance and reason This book was my first exposure to Popper's philosophy, which I have since found to be consistently convincing, enlightening, and inspiring. In the face of fashionable twentieth-century irrationalism and associated political fanaticisms, Popper stresses the importance of intellectual modesty, rational discourse, non-violence, tolerance, and an open society. In this series of collected essays ...             Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism3 reviews Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 1985 Surprisingly good arguments in defense of Indeterminism I started this book expecting to disagree with it. Although I am not a full-fledged determinist, if I was forced to choose between determinism and indeterminism or "free will," I would choose determinism, because the other side of the question is so often used to defend utopian social ideals. If human beings have free will, then (so it is argued), just about any social system, whether ...             Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction2 reviews Karl Popper Routledge, 1996 indispensible text on epistemology and interactionism Popper creates an original (and useful) theoretical framework to interpret the interaction of mind and body- the world3 model. Although parts seem uninformed by advances in neurology and cognitive science, the framework itself is useful in explaining the relationship between the physical world (world1), the cognitive world (world2), and the products of the mind that exist as a result of human ...             World of Parmenides4 reviews Karl Popper Routledge, 2001 The Presocratics -- the roots of rationality Popper's philosophical view is captured in his summary of Aristotle. Popper credits Aristotle with the invention of logic, and for being a great biologist and scholar. But, "Aristotle was the first dogmatist..." "...[W]ith Aristotle's theory, that science is...certain knowledge, it may be said that the great enterprise of Greek critical rationalism came to an end." (5) And so Popper lovingly ...             Karl Popper Lesebuch.1 review Karl R. Popper, David. Miller UTB, Stuttgart, 1995 Philosophy - A way to enlightment Popper has been one of the most influential German thinkers and philosophers of the 20th century. This book summarizes a multitude of his invaluable ideas. In 30 essays the reader is introduced to Popper's broad thinking - from his theory on knowledge creation and scientific progress to his criticism of historicism. I found Popper's ideas and thoughts very intriguing, and can highly recommend ...              search for books argument, autobiography, body-mind, conjectures, defence, democratic, discovery, enemies, framework, freedom, historicism, indeterminism, intellectual, interaction, knowledge, lesebuch, objective, parmenides, physics, problem, propensities, rationality, realism, refutations, scientific, selections, society, torchbooks, unended, universe books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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