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The Political Thought of Karl Popper

Author : Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134861664
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Political Thought of Karl Popper written by Jeremy Shearmur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Thought of Karl Popper offers a controversial treatment of Popper's ideas about politics, informed by Shearmur's personal knowledge of Popper together with research on unpublished material in the Popper archive at the Hoover Institute. While sympathetic to Popper's overall approach, Shearmur offers criticism of some of his ideas and suggests that political conclusions should be drawn from Popper's ideas which differ from Popper's own views. Shearmur introduces Popper's political ideas by way of a discussion of their development, which draws upon archive material. He then offers a critical survey of some of the themes from his Open Society and Poverty of Historicism, and discusses the political significance of some of his later philosophical ideas. Wider themes within Popper's philosophy are drawn on to offer striking critical re-interpretations of his ethical ideas and social theory. The book concludes with a discussion which suggests that Popper's views should have been closer to classical liberalism than they in fact were.

Karl Popper: Politics and social science

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415180450
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper: Politics and social science written by Anthony O'Hear and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Austria, Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. A ground-breaking thinker, he saw the essence of true science as being the readiness to submit theories to severe testing and to reject them when refuted by test. His first major book in 1935, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, marked him as a major analyst of science and was to have an enormous influence on the way people, including major scientists, came to think about the field. This collection is a timely assessment of the reactions to and abiding influence of Popper's work and the controversy it caused across many academic and political fields. The set includes early responses to Popper's work from sources difficult to obtain, and also two early reviews (by Carnap and Grelling) in translations specially prepared for this set. It is organised thematically and includes a substantial new introduction by the editor.

Karl Popper and the Social Sciences

Author : William A. Gorton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482219
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper and the Social Sciences written by William A. Gorton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length exploration of Karl Popper's often-neglected contributions to the philosophy of social science. William A. Gorton situates Popper's ideas on social inquiry within the broader framework of his thought, including his philosophy of natural science, his ontological theories, and his political thought. Gorton places special attention on Popper's theory of situational analysis and how it aims to heighten our understanding of the social world by untangling the complex web of human interaction that produces unintended—and often unwanted—social phenomena. Situational analysis, Gorton contends, involves a significant departure from the method of the natural sciences, despite Popper's plea for the unity of scientific method. Gorton also addresses some common misconceptions concerning Popper's stance toward economics and Marxism, making the provocative claim that contemporary analytical Marxism provides the best current example of Popperian social science put into practice.

Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945

Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521890557
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945 written by Malachi Haim Hacohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.

Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment Volume I

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754653752
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment Volume I written by Ian Charles Jarvie and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Karl Popper (1902 1994) is one of the most controversial and widely read philosophers of the 20th century. His influence has been enormous in the fields of epistemology, logic, metaphysics, methodology of science, the philosophy of physics and biology, political philosophy, and the social sciences, and his intellectual achievement has stimulated many scholars in a wide range of disciplines. These three volumes of previously unpublished essays, which originate in the congress 'Karl Popper 2002' held in Vienna to mark the centenary of Popper's birth, provide an up-to-date examination of many aspects of Popper's life and thought. Volume 1 discusses a variety of topics in Popper's early intellectual history, and considers also some features of his remarkable influence outside philosophy. The second part of the volume contains papers that from different political perspectives tackle problems raised by Popper's principal contribution to political theory, democracy and community, "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Volume 2 deals especially with Popper's metaphysics and epistemology, including his proposal (critical rationalism) that it is through sharp criticism rather than through the provision of justification that our knowledge progresses. Several papers tackle the problem of the empirical basis, and offer decidedly different answers to some unresolved questions. The volume contains also a number of papers evaluating Popper's celebrated, but much contested, solution to Hume's problem of induction. Volume 3 examines Popper's contribution to our understanding of logic, mathematics, physics, biology, and the social sciences, from economics to education. Among the topics covered are: verisimilitude, quantum and statistical physics, the propensity interpretation of probability, evolutionary epistemology, the so-called Positivimusstreit, Popper's critique of Marx, and his defence of the rationality principle as a component of all social explanations.

Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735041X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward.But Nicholas Maxwell finds a flaw in this line of argument. Physicists only ever accept theories that are unified – theories that depict the same laws applying to the range of phenomena to which the theory applies – even though many other empirically more successful disunified theories are always available. This means that science makes a questionable assumption about the universe, namely that all disunified theories are false. Without some such presupposition as this, the whole empirical method of science breaks down.By proposing a new conception of scientific methodology, which can be applied to all worthwhile human endeavours with problematic aims, Maxwell argues for a revolution in academic inquiry to help humanity make progress towards a better, more civilized and enlightened world.

Popper

Author : Geoffrey Stokes
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745603216
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Popper written by Geoffrey Stokes and published by Polity. This book was released on 1998-11-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Popper is a philosopher of knowledge and politics, rationality and freedom. His ideas have won acceptance and provoked controversy among an academic as well as a more general audience. This book aims to broaden our understanding of Popper's philosophy. It is one of the few studies to present his work as an evolving "system of ideas", and to take account of the full range of his writings. The book discusses Popper's early philosophy of politics, science and social science, as well as his later philosophy, which offers an evolutionary account of human nature and the growth of knowledge. Contrary to many earlier interpretations, Stokes argues that we should look to Popper's political values to understand the unity of his work and the evolution of his theory of knowledge and general philosophy. The chapters in this book examine Popper's arguments, and offer critical analysis of the achievements and shortcomings of his philosophy. In particular, Stokes considers the problems of rationality, politics and ethics in the context of debates between the Frankfurt School of critical theory and critical rationalism. The book will be of interest to second-year undergraduates and above in the fields of philosophy and critical theory.

Karl Popper and the Social Sciences

Author : William A. Gorton
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791466612
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper and the Social Sciences written by William A. Gorton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic treatment of Karl Popper’s contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.

After The Open Society

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135627118
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book After The Open Society written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

Author : Stefano Gattei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134182953
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science written by Stefano Gattei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper’s development to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Author : Karl R. Popper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210845
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis The Open Society and Its Enemies by : Karl R. Popper

Download or read book The Open Society and Its Enemies written by Karl R. Popper and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136749772
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Open Society and its Enemies written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. It remains highly readable, erudite and lucid and as essential reading today as on publication in 1945. It is available here in a special centenary single-volume edition.

The Poverty of Historicism

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135972214
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Poverty of Historicism written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.' A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker.

Karl Popper

Author : Phil Parvin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567335
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper written by Phil Parvin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Popper is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and the history of ideas. Elements of Popper's thought were clearly libertarian or conservative in character. His politics, however, were recognisably social democratic. His ideal of an open society was not a free market utopia, but a political community in which diverse people engaged with one another in constructive dialogue to seek political solutions to common problems. If Popper made important and enduring contributions to the libertarian and conservative traditions, it would be a mistake to uncritically label him a conservative or libertarian. Rather, Popper was a scholar who contributed to a range of different fields without being shackled to one particular perspective or approach. It is in this context that we should understand Popper's contribution to libertarian and conservative thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Popper

Author : Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521856450
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Popper written by Jeremy Shearmur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.

The Republic of Science

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042015159
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Science written by Ian Charles Jarvie and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a careful re-reading of Popper's classic falsificationist demarcation of science, stressing its institutional aspects. Popper's social thinking about science, individuals, institutions, and rationality is tracked through The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies as he criticises and improves his earlier work. New links are established between the works of the 1935-1945 period, revealing them as a source for criticism of the institutions and governance of science.

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

Author : Ian Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134709978
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years written by Ian Jarvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe. This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.