Unended quest

Unended quest: an intellectual autobiography

by Popper, Karl R., (Karl Raimund)

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At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to Popper's philosophy, Unended Quest also shines. Popper lucidly explains the central ideas in his wor…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Unended quest : an intellectual autobiography / Karl Popper.

Summary

At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to Popper's philosophy, Unended Quest also shines. Popper lucidly explains the central ideas in his work, making this book ideal for anyone coming to Popper's life and work for the fi.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.
  • Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2002.

Notes

"First published as an 'Autobiography of Karl Popper' in The philosophy of Karl Popper in The library of living philosophers, ed. Paul Arthur Schlipp, by the Open Court Publishing Co., Illinois, 1974"--T.p. verso.

"New ed. with postscript and updated bibliography first published 1992 by Routledge."

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (326 p.).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0875483666, 9780875483665, 1134449712, 9781134449712, 1283882302, 9781283882309, 1134449720, 9781134449729, 9786610113378, 6610113378, 1280113375, 9781280113376, 0203994256, 9780203994252
  • DOI:10.4324/9780203994252
  • oclc:on1315892233
  • LC Classification:B1649.P64
  • Dewey Decimal:192

Table of Contents

Cover; Unended Quest, An Intellectual Autobiography; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Omniscience and Fallibility; 2. Childhood Memories; 3. Early Influences; 4. The First World War; 5. An Early Philosophical Problem: Infinity; 6. My First Philosophical Failure: the Problem of Essentialism; 7. A Long Digression Concerning Essentialism: What Still Divides Me from Most Contemporary Philosophers; 8. A Crucial Year: Marxism; Science and Pseudoscience; 9. Early Studies; 10. A Second Digression: Dogmatic and Critical Thinking; Learning Without Induction; 11. Music

12. Speculations About the Rise of Polyphonic Music: Psychology of Discovery or Logic of Discovery?13. Two Kinds of Music; 14. Progressivism in Art, Especially in Music; 15. Last Years at the University; 16. Theory of Knowledge: Logik Der Forschung; 17. Who Killed Logical Positivism?; 18. Realism and Quantum Theory; 19. Objectivity and Physics; 20. Truth; Probability; Corroboration; 21. The Approaching War; The Jewish Problem; 22. Emigration: England and New Zealand; 23. Early Work in New Zealand; 24. The Open Society and the Poverty of Historicism; 25. Other Work in New Zealand

26. England: At the London School of …

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Austria Biographies Electronic books England Philosophers Philosophers -- Biography. -- Austria Philosophers -- Biography. -- England Popper, Karl R., (Karl Raimund)

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