Popper Objectivity And The Growth Of Knowledge

Author : John H. Sceski
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441144379

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Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge by John H. Sceski Pdf

John H. Sceski argues that Karl Popper's philosophy offers a radical treatment of objectivity that can reconcile freedom and progress in a manner that preserves the best elements of the Enlightenment tradition. His book traces the development of Popper's account of objectivity by examining his original contributions to key issues in the philosophy of science. Popper's early confrontation with logical positivism, his rarely discussed four-fold treatment of the problem of induction, and his theory of propensities and evolutionary epistemology are linked in a novel way to produce a coherent and philosophically relevant picture of objectivity. Sceski also explores and clarifies many central issues in the philosophy of science such as probabilistic support, verisimilitude, and the relationship between special relativity and indeterminism. He concludes that Popper's account of objectivity can best bridge the gap between Enlightenment aims for science and freedom and post-modern misgivings about 'truth', by developing a philosophy that is non-foundationalist yet able to account for the growth of knowledge.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198750242

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Objective Knowledge by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.

Author : Peter Munz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317676218

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Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals) by Peter Munz Pdf

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper’s evolutionary epistemology – conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments. Professor Munz examines and rejects the Wittgensteinian position. Instead, Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge, first published in 1985, elaborates the potentially fruitful link between Popper’s critical rationalism and Neo-Darwinism. Read in the light of the latter, Popper’s philosophy leads to the transformation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism into ‘Hypothetical Realism’, whilst the emphasis on the biological orientation of Popper’s thought helps to illumine some difficulties in Popper’s ‘falsificationism’.

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135971304

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Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper Pdf

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, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 0415285941

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Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

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, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCSC:32106019706198

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Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

Author : Stephanie Chitpin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317378051

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Popper's Approach to Education by Stephanie Chitpin Pdf

Challenging the theory of induction in teacher education, this book proposes a knowledge-building framework based on the critical rationalism of philosopher of science, Karl Popper. The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework developed in this book is designed to be an effective critical analysis framework for empowering teachers and schools to build and share professional knowledge. This book is essential reading for educational scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, and all those interested in exploring the application of Popperian philosophy to the field of education and re-envisioning educational practice.

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135974800

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The Myth of the Framework by Karl Popper Pdf

In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism - a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published in cooperation with the Central European University.

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135975081

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In Search of a Better World by Karl Popper Pdf

'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course of the twentieth century. His subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects of twentieth century totalitarianism, from major figures of the Enlightenment such as Kant and Voltaire to the role of science and self-criticism in the arts. The essays offer striking new insights into the mind of one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers.

Author : Imre Lakatos,Alan Musgrave
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521078261

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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4 by Imre Lakatos,Alan Musgrave Pdf

Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both agree upon the importance of revolutions in science, but differ about the role of criticism in science's revolutionary growth. This volume arose out of a symposium on Kuhn's work, with Popper in the chair, at an international colloquium held in London in 1965. The book begins with Kuhn's statement of his position followed by seven essays offering criticism and analysis, and finally by Kuhn's reply. The book will interest senior undergraduates and graduate students of the philosophy and history of science, as well as professional philosophers, philosophically inclined scientists, and some psychologists and sociologists.

Author : Stefano Gattei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134182947

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Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science by Stefano Gattei Pdf

This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as just such a series. Gattei seeks to reconstruct the logic of Popper’s development, in order to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.

Author : Jeremy Shearmur,Geoffrey Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521856454

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The Cambridge Companion to Popper by Jeremy Shearmur,Geoffrey Stokes Pdf

This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.

Author : Roberta Corvi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134793693

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An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper by Roberta Corvi Pdf

This is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical and political thought of Karl Popper, now available in English. It is divided into three parts; the first part provides a biography of Popper; the second part looks at his works and recurrent themes, and the third part assesses his critics. It was approved of by Popper himself as a sympathetic and comprehensive study, and will be ideal to meet the increasing demand for a summary introduction to his work.

Author : Stefano Gattei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134182954

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Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science by Stefano Gattei Pdf

Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper’s development to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie,Karl Milford,David W. Miller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0754657124

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Karl Popper: Science by Ian Charles Jarvie,Karl Milford,David W. Miller Pdf

Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) is one of the most controversial and widely read philosophers of the 20th century. Volume III examines Popper's contribution to our understanding of logic, mathematics, physics, biology and the social sciences, from economics to education