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Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem In Defence of Interaction
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions... Read more
Acknowledgements, Author's note, 1993, 1 KNOWLEDGE: OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE, 2 THE AUTONOMY OF WORLD 3, 3 WORLD 3 AND EMERGENT EVOLUTION, 4 DESCRIPTION, ARGUMENT, AND IMAGINATION, 5 INTERACTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS, 6 THE SELF, Rationality AND FREEDOM, Editor's afterword, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index
Biography
Karl Popper, M.A. Notturno
'One might not agree with everything in Popper, but he always makes stimulating reading.' - A.C. Grayling, Financial Times
'A useful addition to the Popper canon.' - Peter Goldie, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
