num_pages: 390
description: The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simple language that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.
language: English
title: Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
titlecomplete: Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
genres: Essays, Philosophy, Science, Evolution, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 334
publisher: Oxford University Press