Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge, - Hardcover

Popper, Karl Raimund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710065078 ISBN 13: 9780710065070

Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul, 1969

Synopsis

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 not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

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About the Author

Karl Popper (1902-1994). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

Review

'Popper holds that truth is not manifest, but extremely elusive, he believes that men need above all things, open-mindedness, imagination, and a constant willingness to be corrected.' – Maurice Cranston, Listener

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710065078
• ISBN 13: 9780710065070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 431