2nd Edition
Conjectures and Refutations The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
By Karl Popper
Copyright 2002
608 Pages
by
Routledge
608 Pages
by
Routledge
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards,... Read more
INTRODUCTION On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance CONJECTURES 1 Science: Conjectures and Refutations Appendix: Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science 2 The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science 3 Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge 4 Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition 5 Back to the Presocratics 6 A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein 7 Kant’s Critique and Cosmology 8 On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics 9 Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality? 10 Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge REFUTATIONS 11 The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics 12 Language and the Body-Mind Problem 13A Note on the Body-Mind Problem 14 Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language 15 What is Dialectic? 16 Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences 17 Public Opinion and Liberal Principles 18 Utopia and Violence 19 The History of Our Time: An Optimist’s View 20 Humanism and Reason
Biography
Karl Popper (1902-1994). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.
'Popper holds that truth is not manifest, but extremely elusive, he believes that men need above all things, open-mindedness, imagination, and a constant willingness to be corrected.' – Maurice Cranston, Listener
