Karl R. Popper Livres

" En 1994 paraissait, sous le titre : Toute vie est résolution de problèmes, un recueil de conférences que Karl Popper a prononcées entre 1958 et 1993. Cet ouvrage, Popper l'a achevé peu avant sa mort, survenue le 17 septembre 1994 près de Londres. Il a donc probablement consacré les derniers moments de son existence à rassembler et à réviser les textes qui le composent. À ses yeux, cet ouvrage représente la continuation du recueil : À la recherche d'un monde meilleur paru dix ans auparavant et réunissant des conférences prononcées sur trente ans. (...) Nous proposons ici au lecteur une traduction de la première série de conférences, celles qui ont trait à la connaissance de la nature, d'où le sous-titre de cette traduction française : Questions autour de la connaissance de la nature. (...) Popper écrit simplement : " Questions autour de la connaissance de la nature, c'est ainsi que j'ai désigné la première partie de cet ouvrage. C'est principalement à la biologie que je pense ici, et à l'incroyable profusion des formes de vie. Plus nous pénétrons l'un ou l'autre des domaines de la biologie - de quelque côté que ce soit - plus incommensurable s'avère la richesse de formes des structures biologiques à tous les niveaux, et plus merveilleuse l'harmonie de leur concert. " (Extrait de l'avant-propos)

Qu'est-ce que vivre? Résoudre des problèmes, apprendre, inventer des théories et les mettre à l'épreuve du monde pour en tirer des informations. Tels sont les thèmes que Lorenz et Popper discutent dans la première partie de ce livre: la vie est un processus de connaissance, pour l'homme comme pour l'animal. Dans la seconde partie, Karl Popper répond à des questions le concernant. Occasion d'une exposition extrêmement claire de ses thèses fondamentales, philosophiques, épistémologiques et politiques. On trouvera là la meilleure introduction à une oeuvre capitale de notre époque

The book features interviews with philosopher Karl Popper, conducted by Italian journalist Giancarlo Bosetti, highlighting Popper's conviction that philosophers must engage in political discourse. It emphasizes the importance of active participation in societal issues and serves as a cautionary message against complacency in contemporary times.

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur collects the most important writings Popper made in the years after The Open Society was first published. Many are published here for the first time.

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery . The Postscript is the culmination of Popper's work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.

"In the course of a life of ninety years Sir Karl can look back on positive changes in the world - the vast reductions in mass poverty, the liberalization of penal systems, the defeat of dictatorships. The search for a better world is never complete, but in spite of two world wars and a long and dangerous cold war, it was not in vain." "The essays and lectures collected in this book chart many familiar as well as some less known aspects of Sir Karl's thinking - from his interest in the birth of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects on the intellect of totalitarianism in twentieth-century states. His discussions range over problems of politics, the history of philosophy and great figures of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Kant, and the relation of science and art (in an address given at the 1979 Salzburg festival). The book offers important new insights into the thought of one of the greatest of living philosophers, and into the role of science in our civilization."--Jacket

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.

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.

This unique collection of essays not only elucidates the complexity of ancient Greek thought but also reveals Popper's engagement with Presocratic philosophy and the influence of Parmenides. schovat popis