Title: Objective knowledge :
Authors: Popper, Karl R.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Clarendon Press ;
Physical description: x, 395 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 1. Conjectural knowledge: My solution of the problem of induction -- 2. Two faces of common sense: An argument for commonsense realism and against the commonsense theory of knowledge -- 3. Epistemology without a knowing subject -- 4. On the theory of the objective mind -- 5. The aim of science -- 6. Of clouds and clocks -- 7. Evolution and the tree of knowledge -- 8. A realist view of logic, physics, and history -- 9. Philosophical comments on Tarski's theory of truth -- Appendix 1. The bucket and the searchlight: Two theories of knowledge -- Appendix 2. Summplementary remarks (1978).
Subject headings (LCSH): Determinism (Philosophy); Induction (Logic); Knowledge, Theory of.; Liberty.; Methodology.; Science--Philosophy