Pop (Second Series of Translations of World Thinkers)

Author: (USA) Notohara Makoto
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Karl Popper is regarded as one of the greatest scientific philosophers of the 20th century, as well as one of the most influential critics of Marx and closed social systems. He is 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 falsifiability theory, his equating of rationality with a critical attitude, 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 freedom of thought. Popper is a critic of determinism in the theory of science and society, and a proponent of free will. In his later years, he advocated for the evolutionary epistemology, dualism of mind and body, and the view that our theories, problems, and works of art typically belong to an objective but non-physical "World III."