Popper: The Champion Guides - Couverture souple

Champion, Mr Rafe

 
9781532902031: Popper: The Champion Guides

Synopsis

This book provides an introduction to the life and work of Karl Popper with guides to the key ideas in five of his books.Popper lived a long and productive life, leaving a score of books including two which have the status of classics. The Logic of Scientific Discovery transformed the philosophy of science and The Open Society and its Enemies is a profound critique of ideas which confuse and divide the friends of freedom.Most likely Popper will eventually be a household name among educated people but his profile is so low in the universities at present that some of his books are kept in print by a lay readership.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book provides an introduction to the life and work of Karl Popper with guides to the key ideas in five of his books. Popper lived a long and productive life, leaving a score of books including two which have the status of classics. The Logic of Scientific Discovery transformed the philosophy of science and The Open Society and its Enemies is a profound critique of ideas which confuse and divide the friends of freedom. Most likely Popper will eventually be a household name among educated people but his profile is so low in the universities at present that some of his books are kept in print by a lay readership.

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