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Objective knowledge : an evolutionary approach / Karl R. Popper.

By: Publication details: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.Edition: Rev. edDescription: x, 395 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198750242
  • 0198243707
  • 9780198243700
  • 9780198750246
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121
LOC classification:
  • BD161 .P727 1979
Other classification:
  • 08.32
  • AK 20200
  • CC 4400
  • CI 3964
  • MR 1050
Contents:
1. Conjectural knowledge: My solution of the problem of induction -- 2. Two faces of common sense: An argument for commonsense realism and against the commonsense theory of knowledge -- 3. Epistemology without a knowing subject -- 4. On the theory of the objective mind -- 5. The aim of science -- 6. Of clouds and clocks -- 7. Evolution and the tree of knowledge -- 8. A realist view of logic, physics, and history -- 9. Philosophical comments on Tarski's theory of truth -- Appendix 1. The bucket and the searchlight: Two theories of knowledge -- Appendix 2. Summplementary remarks (1978).
Summary: 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.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) BD 161 .P727 1979 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5509

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Conjectural knowledge: My solution of the problem of induction -- 2. Two faces of common sense: An argument for commonsense realism and against the commonsense theory of knowledge -- 3. Epistemology without a knowing subject -- 4. On the theory of the objective mind -- 5. The aim of science -- 6. Of clouds and clocks -- 7. Evolution and the tree of knowledge -- 8. A realist view of logic, physics, and history -- 9. Philosophical comments on Tarski's theory of truth -- Appendix 1. The bucket and the searchlight: Two theories of knowledge -- Appendix 2. Summplementary remarks (1978).

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.

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