Popper--World Thinkers Translation Series

Author: (American) N, translated by Gong Rui
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Features: Karl Popper is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also as one of the most influential critics of Marx and closed social systems. He is an outspoken advocate of rationalism and a consistent critic of subjectivism and authoritarianism in science and society. He is famous for the demarcation criterion between science and metaphysics based on falsifiability, but more importantly, his fallibilism, equating 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. Perhaps most importantly, he defended open societies and freedom of thought. Popper was a critic of determinism in the philosophy 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."