Popper Selections by Karl R Popper

Popper Selections by Karl R 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.

"These pieces taken from Anglo-Austrian philosopher Sir Karl Popper's brilliantly expounded oeuvre of political, social, and scientific thought should stimulate anyone seriously interested in twentieth-century ideas"--The Washington Post

One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century was Sir Karl Popper. Popper, who was born in Vienna in 1902, grew up in a place where there was a lot of intellectual ferment. His friendship with philosophers and scientists led to the publication of his first book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, in 1934. The New Scientist called it one of the most important publications of the twentieth century when it was first published in English in 1959. Popper was obliged to evacuate to New Zealand on the eve of World War Two, when he took up a teaching position at Canterbury University College in Christchurch.

He wrote The Open Society and Its Opponents, which was published in 1945, while meditating on the dictatorship sweeping Eastern Europe. Popper moved to the London School of Economics in 1946 and lectured there until 1969, when he retired. The Poverty of Historicism was published around this time, and the Sunday Times called it perhaps the only book that will outlast this century. In 1965, he was knighted, and in 1982, he was made a Companion of Honour.

In 1994, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780691020310
ISBN 10	0691020310
Title	Popper Selections
Author	Karl R Popper
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	1985-02-21
Number of pages	480
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