Realism and the Aim of Science by Karl Popper

Realism and the Aim of Science by Karl Popper

Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Poppers Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Poppers work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.

‘What distinguishes Popper from a great dull army of philosophers of science is that reading him is good for us’ Donald MacKay in Nature

'The whole work shares with the other volumes of the Postscript an immense capacity to stimulate and clarify the mind of even the least sympathetic reader' - Donald MacKay, Nature

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	9780415084000
ISBN 10	0415084008
Title	Realism and the Aim of Science
Author	Karl Popper
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1985-08-29
Number of pages	464
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