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Author: (American) Noto
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This series of books concisely discusses the academic viewpoints of famous Western thinkers and the background and development of these ideas, serving as an introductory guide for students and philosophy enthusiasts to enter the hall of human wisdom. The series closely adheres to the original works of the thinkers and connects them to current realities, aiming to inspire readers to think critically and further explore the original texts. Each author in the series is a renowned scholar who has studied the respective thinker, offering unique insights into both the thinker and their original works. What is particularly valuable is that the series introduces the life of each thinker while clearly tracing the development of their thought, making it a rare masterpiece that combines cultural popularization with academic research. Each translator in the series is an expert in the study of the respective thinker in China and has translated multiple Western academic works.
Karl Popper is regarded as one of the greatest scientific philosophers of the 20th century and also one of the most influential critics of Marx and closed social systems. He was a staunch advocate of rationalism and a consistent critic of subjectivism and authoritarianism in science and society. He is famous for his demarcation criterion between science and metaphysics, but more importantly, his fallibilism, his equating of reason with criticism, his critique of induction, and his description of science as an endless activity of problem-solving through experimentation and trial and error. What is perhaps most important is his defense of open societies and intellectual freedom. Popper was a critic of determinism in the theory of science and society and an advocate of free will. In his later years, he promoted the epistemology of evolution, dualism of mind and body, and the view that our theories, problems, and works of art generally belong to an objective but non-physical "World III."