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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... Read more
Volume I: Biography, Background and Early Reactions to Popper's Work
Volume II: Philosophy of Science 1 (Induction, The Empirical Basis and Demarcation)
Volume III: Philosophy of Science 2 (Verisimilitude; Propensities; Quantum Theory; Science, Rationality and Metaphysics; Biology, Evolution and World 3)
Volume IV: Politics and Social Science.
Volume II: Philosophy of Science 1 (Induction, The Empirical Basis and Demarcation)
Volume III: Philosophy of Science 2 (Verisimilitude; Propensities; Quantum Theory; Science, Rationality and Metaphysics; Biology, Evolution and World 3)
Volume IV: Politics and Social Science.
Biography
Edited by Professor Anthony O'Hear
