Title: Unended quest : an intellectual autobiography /
Authors: Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994.
Publisher: Open Court,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Popper, Karl R.; Philosophers England Biography; Philosophers Austria Biography
Abstract: 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 first time.
Contents: 1. -- Omniscience and Fallibility --- 2. -- Childhood Memories --- 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 Economics and Political Science --- 27. Early work in England --- 28. First visit to the United States. Meeting Einstein --- 29. Problems and theories --- 30. -- Debates with Schrodinger --- 31. Objectivity and criticism --- 32. Induction; deduction; objective truth --- 33. -- Metaphysical Research Programmes --- 34. Fighting subjectivism in physics: quantum mechanics and propensity --- 35. -- Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time --- 36. -- The Subjectivist Theory of Entropy --- 37. -- Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme --- 38. -- World 3 or the Third World --- 39. The body-mind problem and World 3 --- 40. The place of values in a world of facts.