Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific KnowledgePsychology Press, 2002 - 582 pàgines 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. Popper brilliantly demonstrates how knowledge grows by guesses or conjectures and tentative solutions, which must then be subjected to critical tests. Although they may survive any number of tests, our conjectures remain conjectures, they can never be established as true. What makes Conjectures and Refutations such an enduring book is that Popper goes on to apply this bold theory of the growth of knowledge to a fascinating range of important problems, including the role of tradition, the origin of the scientific method, the demarcation between science and metaphysics, the body-mind problem, the way we use language, how we understand history, and the dangers of public opinion. Throughout the book, Popper stresses the importance of our ability to learn from our mistakes. Conjectures and Refutations is essential reading, and a book to be returned to again and again. |
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Conjectures and Refutations 43 3 | 43 |
The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their | 87 |
Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge | 130 |
Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition | 161 |
Back to the Presocratics | 183 |
A Short List of Political Illustrations 4757556 | 218 |
A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein | 224 |
Kants Critique and Cosmology | 237 |
What is Dialectic? | 419 |
Hegelian Dialectic | 435 |
Dialectic After Hegel | 445 |
Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences | 452 |
Public Opinion and Liberal Principles | 467 |
The Dangers of Public Opinion | 470 |
A Group of Theses | 471 |
The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion | 473 |
On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics | 249 |
Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic | 272 |
Truth Rationality and the Growth of Scientific | 291 |
The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics | 341 |
Introduction | 342 |
My Own View of the Problem | 344 |
Carnaps First Theory of Meaninglessness | 349 |
Carnap and the Language of Science | 356 |
Testability and Meaning | 368 |
Probability and Induction | 377 |
Language and the BodyMind Problem | 395 |
Four Major Functions of Language | 397 |
A Group of Theses | 398 |
The Machine Argument | 399 |
The Causal Theory of Naming | 401 |
Interaction | 402 |
A Note on the BodyMind Problem | 403 |
SelfReference and Meaning in Ordinary Language | 409 |
The Forms of Public Opinion | 475 |
Utopia and Violence | 477 |
An Optimists View | 489 |
Humanism and Reason | 506 |
Some Technical Notes | 517 |
Probability and the Severity of Tests | 522 |
Verisimilitude | 527 |
Numerical Examples | 535 |
Artificial vs Formalized Languages | 537 |
A Historical Note on Verisimilitude 1964 | 538 |
Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude 1968 | 541 |
Further Remarks on the Presocratics especially on Parmenides 1968 | 545 |
Unity or Novelty? 1968 | 556 |
An Argument due to Mark Twain against Naïve Empiricism 1989 | 557 |
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