Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge: Popper or Wittgenstein? - Couverture rigide

Munz, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0710204604 ISBN 13 : 9780710204608

Editeur : Routledge, 1985

Synopsis

MUNZ, P. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE. POPPER OR WITTGENSTEIN?. LONDON, 1985, xii 353 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper’s evolutionary epistemology – conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments.

Professor Munz examines and rejects the Wittgensteinian position. Instead, Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge, first published in 1985, elaborates the potentially fruitful link between Popper’s critical rationalism and Neo-Darwinism. Read in the light of the latter, Popper’s philosophy leads to the transformation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism into ‘Hypothetical Realism’, whilst the emphasis on the biological orientation of Popper’s thought helps to illumine some difficulties in Popper’s ‘falsificationism’.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0710204604
• ISBN 13: 9780710204608
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible