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Returning to Karl Popper : a reassessment of his politics and philosophy /

Over the last few years there has been a resurgent interest in various scientific disciplines in Popper's arguments. To gain a greater appreciation of Popper's scientific arguments, they need to be viewed in relation to his broader philosophy and where this stands within the history of ide...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Naraniecki, Alexander
Autres auteurs: Murauer, Innsbruck
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2014.
Collection:Schriftenreihe zur Philosophie Karl R. Poppers und des kritischen Rationalismus ; Bd. 20.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Out of the Haskalah; 1. Introduction; 2. Was Karl Popper a Positivist?; 1. Introduction; 2. The Vienna Circle; 2. The Popper Family; 3. Popper, Israel and Jewish Identity; 4. The Jewish Enlightenments; 5. Bildung; 3. The renewal of Kant's Enlightenment; 3. The early philosophical problems; 1. Introduction; 2. Julius Kraft: an extraordinary friendship; 3. Popper's Friesian problematic; 4. Axioms, Definitions and Postulates of Geometry; 5. Methods used in revising Kant.
  • 6. Theorising on the methods of criticism4. Logic and language: Wittgenstein and Tarski; 1. Introduction; 2. Tarski's theory of truth and its implications; 3. Consensus as correspondence; 4. Evolutionary cognition; 5. Demolishing Wittgenstein; 5. Definitions, essences and meaning; 1. Introduction; 2. The problem of essentialism; 3. Comparison with Wittgenstein; 4. Popper's aesthetics; 6. Popper's metaphysics; 1. Introduction; 2. Propensities and the metaphysical 'turn'; 3. Materialism transcends itself; 4. The World 3 thesis; 5. An esoteric reading; 7. Towards an Open Rationality.
  • Archival MaterialBibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.