On Popper

Name: On Popper
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ISBN: 9780534584016

ISBN-10: 0534584012

ISBN-13: 9780534584016

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mark Amadeus Notturno

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ON POPPER, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students'…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English




The Logic of Scientific Disocvery


Foundationalism


Popper's Problem



Conjectures and Refutations


Induction and Demarcation


Hume's Problem


Kant's Problem


The Falsifiability Criterion


How Not To Understand Falsifiability



Objective Knowledge


Logic and Psychology


The Three Worlds


Critical Rationalism


Knowledge Without a Knowing Subject


Misunderstanding World 3


Understanding World 3


Objectivity, Rationality, and the Third World



Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem


An Evolutionary Approach


Human Consciousness


Full Consciousness and the Self


Learning to be a Self



Realism and the Aim of Science


What is Truth?


Essentialism and Instrumentalism


Explanation and Prediction


Pragmatism, Coherence, and Consensus


Truth and Information Content


Verisimilitude



The Open Universe


Determinism: Religion, Science, and Metaphysics


Of Clouds and Clocks


Indeterminism


A World of Propensities


Indeterminism Is Not Enough



The Poverty of Historicism


Historicism


Laws and Trends


Prediction and Prophecy


The Oedipus Effect


Moral Responsibility



In Search of a Better World


Piecemeal and Utopian Social Engineering


The 'Piecemeal' Approach


Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity


'Scientific' Socialism



The Open Society and Its Enemies


Nature and Convention


The Strain of Civilization


Open Society and the Democratic State


Majority Rule, Rule of Law, and the Market


Unended Quest


Bibliography