One of the most controversial of twentieth-century philosophers, especially for his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejection of inductive reasoning, Sir Karl Popper relentlessly challenged both the authority and the appeal to authority of the most fashionable philosophies of our time. His own philosophy of critical rationalism is distinctive in its emphasis on the way in which we learn through the making and correcting of mistakes-on the role played by imagination in proposing new possibilities, and by reason in exposing and eliminating the errors among them. David Miller, once Popper's research assistant and now a leading expositor and critic of his work, has chosen thirty excerpts from Popper's non-technical writings in the theory of knowledge, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and social philosophy. Together they illustrate the breadth, profundity, and originality of Sir Karl's contribution to human learning.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 479 pages. cover worn, text tanned One of the most controversial of twentieth-century philosophers, especially f or his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejec tion of inductive reasoning, Sir Karl Popper relentlessly challenged both the au thority and the appeal to authority of the most fashionable philosophies of our time. His own philosophy of critical rationalism is distinctive in its emphasis on the way in which we learn through the making and correcting of mistakes-on th e role played by imagination in proposing new possibilities, and by reason in ex posing and eliminating the errors among them. David Miller, once Popper's resear ch assistant and now a leading expositor and critic of his work, has chosen thir ty excerpts from Popper's non-technical writings in the theory of knowledge, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and social philosophy. Together they illust rate the breadth, profundity, and originality of Sir Karl's contribution to huma n learning. Seller Inventory # 3837ap
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