Karl R. Popper

David W. Miller

Sir Karl Raimund Popper

These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known especially for his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejection of inductive reasoning. David Miller, a leading expositor and critic of Popper's work, has chosen thirty selections that illustrate the profundity and originality of his ideas and their applicability to current intellectual and social problems. Miller's introduction demonstrates the remarkable unity of Popper's thought and briefly describes his philosophy of critical rationalism, a philosophy that is distinctive in its emphasis on the way in which we learn through the making and correcting of mistakes. Popper has relentlessly challenged both the authority and the appeal to authority of the most fashionable philosophies of our time. This book of selections from his nontechnical writings on the theory of knowledge, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and social philosophy is imbued with his emphasis on the role and by reason in exposing and eliminating the errors among them.

Popper Selections

Karl Raimund Popper

Covering such issues as the aims of science, the role it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibiliby of the scientist, the function of a university, and the choice between reason and revolution, this book defends science and rationality against distortions of its aims and ideals.

In Defence of Science and Rationality

The Myth of the Framework

Bilimsel araştirmanin mantiği

Der Zauber Platons

Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde

John C. Eccles

Das Ich und sein Gehirn

Falsche Propheten : Hegel, Marx und die Folgen

ʻIzzatullāh Fūlādvand

Jāmiʻah'i bāz va dushmanān-i ān

'Em busca de um mundo melhor' é uma reunião de ensaios e conferências de Karl Popper que tratam do início da especulação científica na Grécia Clássica à necessidade de uma nova ética profissional e de responsabilidade intelectual. Popper analisa os grandes pensadores do Iluminismo como Voltaire e Kant, assim como a lógica das ciências sociais e relação entre ciência e arte.

Em busca de um mundo melhor

La società aperta e i suoi nemici. Volume 1: Platone totalitario

English summary: This is the 2nd authorized, revised and expanded German edition of Karl Popper's famous collection of essays. German description: In diesen Aufsatzen und Vortragen veranschaulicht Karl Popper, dass wir unser Wissen nur erweitern konnen, wenn wir Fehler machen und daraus lernen. Die zweite Auflage ist revidiert und enthalt zusatzlich ein Nachwort und eine Konkordanz.Ich halte diese Aufsatzsammlung fur eine der einflussreichsten philosophischen Veroffentlichungen des letzten Jahrhunderts, die zu konsultieren ich jedem nahelegen kann, der an einer Philosophie interessiert ist, die ihren Gegenstand den Problemen entnimmt, die unserem Versuch entgegenstehen, die Welt theoretisch fundiert zu erklaren. Insofern sind die 'Vermutungen und Widerlegungen' ein Buch uber die Bedeutsamkeit von Theorien und die Moglichkeit, mit ihrer Hilfe und trotz unseres begrenzten, falliblen Erkenntnisvermogens eine realistische Weltsicht zu gewinnen und zu verteidigen und damit den Fallstricken des Skeptizismus ebenso zu entgehen wie denen des Relativismus.Michael Schmid in Soziologische Revue 24 (2001), S. 408-416Nach mehr als dreissig Jahren Abstand erscheinen so viele Passagen noch immer treffend und aktuell. Seine Kritik am neopositivistisch gefassten Induktionsprinzip oder der Wissenschaft des Wiener Kreises insgesamt [...] wird hier noch einmal aufgegriffen und ausfuhrlicher entwickelt. [...] Zahlreiche hier zusammengetragene Vortrage und Aufsatze beschaftigen sich scheinbar mit nur philosophiehistorisch interessanten Fragen. Doch immer versucht Popper die dahinterstehenden sachlichen Probleme zu fassen, die zu dieser jeweiligen philosophischen Theorie gefuhrt haben. Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 1998, S. 84

das Wachstum der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis

Vermutungen und Widerlegungen

2014 Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character of scientific discovery--a picture which does full justice to the liberating effect of the Einsteinian revolution in physics and its immense impact upon scientific thought in general. For this new English edition Dr. Popper did his own translation and has written 150 pages of entirely new text. Ernest Nagel considered this work "a first rate contribution to the logic of scientific method. The book contains a very interesting chapter on quantum mechanics, which performs one of the few sensible analyses of the Indeterminacy Principle which I have seen in print... The book is highly stimulating and contains much that is bed-rock for future work."--From the Dusk Jacket.

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

über Erkenntnis, Geschichte und Politik

Alles Leben ist Problemlösen

E. H. Gombrich

One 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. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel. In a substantial new introduction written for this edition, acclaimed political philosopher Alan Ryan puts Popper's landmark work in biographical, intellectual, and historical context. Also included is a personal essay by eminent art historian E. H. Gombrich, in which he recounts the story of the book's eventual publication despite numerous rejections and wartime deprivations.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Postscript to the logic of scientific discovery. [1]. Realism and the aim of science

One 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. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel. In a substantial new introduction written for this edition, acclaimed political philosopher Alan Ryan puts Popper's landmark work in biographical, intellectual, and historical context. Also included is a personal essay by eminent art historian E.H. Gombrich, in which he recounts the story of the book's eventual publication despite numerous rejections and wartime deprivations.--

Il pensiero essenziale

La libertà è più importante dell'uguaglianza. Pensieri liberali

Come io vedo la filosofia e altri saggi

Dopo la società aperta

English summary: This book is the third volume of Sir Karl Popper's long awaited Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery . Although it was written around 1955 it was first published in English in 1982. This is the first German edition. The book has, however, lost none of its relevance. It contains the outline for a new cosmology and challenges some of the most fundamental hypotheses of current physics research. German description: Dieses Buch ... ist der dritte Band von Sir Karl Poppers lang erwartetem Postskript zur Logik der Forschung . Obgleich es schon vor [uber vierzig] Jahren geschrieben wurde, ist es ... immer noch so aktuell wie damals: Es enthalt den Entwurf einer neuen Kosmologie und es stellt einige der fundamentalsten Annahmen der aktuellen Forschung der Physik in Frage. Wer Gelehrtenstreitigkeiten und Ironie in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte zu goutieren weiss, der wird die in diesem Band auf ihn wartenden seltenen Genusse zu schatzen wissen, wo Popper mit seiner Attacke direkt ins Zentrum der aktuellen Debatte in der Quantenphysik vorstosst. In einer Zeit, in der die meisten seriosen Physiker Induktivisten, Subjektivisten, Positivisten und Instrumentalisten sind, in der sie versuchen, diese Positionen in der Physik zu verankern, in dieser Zeit schlagt Popper eine Interpretation der Physik und sogar der ganzen Kosmologie vor, die deduktivistisch, realistisch, anti-positivistisch und anti-instrumentalistisch ist. Man kann sich kaum eine scharfere Prufung fur die Ideen eines Philosophen wie Popper vorstellen, als ihn inmitten einer solchen Generation von Physikern leben zu lassen. Poppers uber ein halbes Jahrhundert hinweg anhaltendes Bedurfnis, Ideen zu schmieden, sie zu prufen und zu gestalten, sie tatsachlichen und moglichen Einwanden von Seiten der abstraktesten Theoretiker des esoterischsten aller modernen Facher auszusetzen, hat dazu beigetragen, seinen Ideen die ihnen eigene lapidare Pragnanz zu geben. Und es gibt ihnen noch etwas, das fur das gegenwartige philosophische Denken keineswegs typisch ist: wissenschaftliches Gewicht und zugleich kulturelle Relevanz. Der Herausgeber im Nachwort (1982)

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