Book Description
This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.
Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2002-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521890557
This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.
Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2000-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521470537
This intellectual biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1994), the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fascism, revolutionized the philosophy of science, and envisioned the Open Society. Malachi Hacohen draws a compelling portrait of the philosopher, the assimilated Jewish intelligentsia, and the vanished culture of Red Vienna, which was decimated by Nazism. Seeking to rescue Popper from his postwar conservative and anticommunist reputation, Hacohen restores his works to their original Central European contexts and, at the same time, shows that they have urgent messages for contemporary politics and philosophy.
Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2000-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521470537
This intellectual biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1994), the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fascism, revolutionized the philosophy of science, and envisioned the Open Society. Malachi Hacohen draws a compelling portrait of the philosopher, the assimilated Jewish intelligentsia, and the vanished culture of Red Vienna, which was decimated by Nazism. Seeking to rescue Popper from his postwar conservative and anticommunist reputation, Hacohen restores his works to their original Central European contexts and, at the same time, shows that they have urgent messages for contemporary politics and philosophy.
Author : Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521856450
This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.
Author : D. C. Stove
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1483157016
Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists focuses on a tendency in the philosophy of science, of which the leading representatives are Professor Sir Karl Popper, the late Professor Imre Lakatos, and Professors T. S. Kuhn and P. K. Feyerabend. Their philosophy of science is in substance irrationalist. They doubt, or deny outright, that there can be any reason to believe any scientific theory; and a fortiori they doubt or deny, for example, that there has been any accumulation of knowledge in recent centuries. The book is composed of two parts and Part One explains how these writers succeeded in making irrationalism about science acceptable to readers. Part Two explores the intellectual influence that led these writers to embrace irrationalism about science.
Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108245498
Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews throughout the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent the plurality of Jewish European cultures.
Author : David W. Miller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780754650683
David Miller is the foremost exponent of the purist critical rationalist doctrine and here presents his mature views, discussing the role that logic and argument play in the growth of knowledge, criticizing the common understanding of argument as an instrument of justification, persuasion or discovery and instead advocating the critical rationalist view that only criticism matters. Miller patiently and thoroughly undoes the damage done by those writers who attack critical rationalism by invoking the sterile mythology of induction and justification that it seeks to sweep away. In addition his new material on the debate on verisimilitude is essential reading for all working in this field.
Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231134286
Although Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic ever since. Kuhn's relativistic vision of science as just another human activity, like art or philosophy, triumphed over Popper's more positivistic belief in revolutionary discoveries and the superiority of scientific provability. Steve Fuller argues that not only has Kuhn's dominance had an adverse impact on the field but both thinkers have been radically misinterpreted in the process.
Author : Philip Catton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134363419
One of the most original thinkers of the century, Karl Popper has inspired generations of philosophers, historians, and politicians. This collection of papers, specially written for this volume, offers fresh philosophical examination of key themes in Popper's philosophy, including philosophy of knowledge, science and political philosophy. Drawing from some of Popper's most important works, contributors address his solution to the problem of induction, his views on conventionalism and criticism in an open society, and his unique position in 20th century philosophy. They also examine the current relevance of Popper to understanding liberal democracy, his critique of tribalism and his relationship with analytic philosophy in general - and with Wittgenstein in particular - as well as drawing on the studies of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein to assess Popper's conception of science.
Author : Phil Parvin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1441185399
Volume 14 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series focuses on Karl Popper, an important and controversial thinker of the 20th century.