A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Popper explains the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.
Author(s): Karl R. Popper
Series: Routledge Classics
Edition: 5
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 326
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Omniscience and Fallibility......Page 12
2 Childhood Memories......Page 14
3 Early Influences......Page 16
4 The First World War......Page 20
5 An Early Philosophical Problem Infinity......Page 22
6 My First Philosophical Failure: The Problem of Essentialism......Page 24
7 A Long Digression Concerning Essentialism: Contemporary Philosophers......Page 26
8 A Crucial Year: Marxism; Science and Pseudoscience......Page 41
9 Early Studies......Page 50
10 A Second Digression: Dogmatic and Critical Thinking Learning without Induction......Page 56
11 Music......Page 67
12 Speculations about the Rise of Polyphonic Music......Page 70
13 Two Kinds of Music......Page 76
14 Progressivism in Art Especially in Music......Page 86
15 Last Years at the University......Page 91
16 Theory of Knowledge Logik der Forschung......Page 98
17 Who Killed Logical Positivism......Page 109
18 Realism and Quantum Theory......Page 112
19 Objectivity and Physics......Page 120
20 Truth Probability Corroboration......Page 122
21 The Approaching War The Jewish Problem......Page 130
22 Emigration England and New Zealand......Page 134
23 Early Work in New Zealand......Page 138
24 The Open Society and The Poverty of Historicism......Page 141
25 Other Work in New Zealand......Page 148
26 England: At the London School of Economics and Political Science......Page 149
27 Early Work in England......Page 155
28 First Visit to the United States. Meeting Einstein......Page 157
29 Problems and Theories......Page 163
30 Debates with Schrödinger......Page 167
31 Objectivity and Criticism......Page 170
32 Induction Deduction Objective Truth......Page 173
33 Metaphysical Research Programmes......Page 183
34 Fighting Subjectivism in Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Propensity......Page 186
35 Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time......Page 192
36 The Subjectivist Theory of Entropy......Page 200
37 Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme......Page 205
38 World 3 or the Third World......Page 221
39 The Body Mind Problem and World 3......Page 229
40 The Place of Values in a World of Facts......Page 236
Postscript......Page 242
Postscript to Marxism 1992......Page 246
Notes......Page 248
Titles......Page 292
Select Bibliography......Page 294
Index......Page 312
