Karl Popper

Unended Quest

An Intellectual Autobiography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Although most of us know the date and place of our birth...few know when and how their intellectual life began. .." Here one of the greatest thinkers of our age recalls the landmarks of his development. Apprenticed to a cabinet maker, Popper found that philosophical daydreams interfered with the quality of his French polish, making him realize that he was too 'ignorant and fallible' for manual work. Popper's memories of the first world war, love affair with Marxism and the working class, involvement in music, and reactions to antisemitism are as vital to this story as his encounters with Einstein, Russell, carnap, and Wittgenstein."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Court
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780875483436
• ISBN-10: 0875483437
• Artikelnr.: 20992634

Autorenporträt

Karl Popper (1902-1994). Philosopher, born in Vienna. one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Omniscience and Fallibility
Chapter 2 Childhood Memories
Chapter 3 Early Influences
Chapter 4 The First World War
Chapter 5 An Early Philosophical Problem
Chapter 6 My First Philosophical Failure
Chapter 7 A Long Digression Concerning Essentialism
Chapter 8 A Crucial Year
Chapter 9 Early Studies
Chapter 10 A Second Digression
Chapter 11 Music
Chapter 12 Speculations About the Rise of Polyphonic Music
Chapter 13 Two Kinds of Music
Chapter 14 Progressivism in Art, Especially in Music
Chapter 15 Last Years at the University
Chapter 16 Theory of Knowledge
Chapter 17 Who Killed Logical Positivism?
Chapter 18 Realism and Quantum Theory
Chapter 19 Objectivity and Physics
Chapter 20 Truth
Probability
Corroboration
Chapter 21 The Approaching War
The Jewish Problem
Chapter 22 Emigration
Chapter 23 Early Work in New Zealand
Chapter 24 The Open Society and the Poverty of Historicism
Chapter 25 Other Work in New Zealand
Chapter 26 England
Chapter 27 Early Work in England
Chapter 28 First Visit to the United States
Chapter 29 Problems and Theories
Chapter 30 Debates with SchröDinger
Chapter 31 Objectivity and Criticism
Chapter 32 Induction
Deduction
Objective Truth
Chapter 33 Metaphysical Research Programmes
Chapter 34 Fighting Subjectivism in Physics
Chapter 35 Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time
Chapter 36 The Subjectivist Theory of Entropy
Chapter 37 Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme
Chapter 38 World 3 or the Third World
Chapter 39 The Body-Mind Problem and World 3
Chapter 40 The Place of Values in a World of Facts