Congetture e confutazioni. Lo sviluppo della conoscenza scientifica

In my final years of high-school, I encountered Popper's theory of the process of 'Conjectures and Refutations' when studying the epistemology of science, and subsequently referenced his work in an essay - yet my understanding of it at the time was highly superficial. When writing my final year disse Leggi tutto

Popper is a point of required passage for all those which are interested in sciences. But the originality is that the method Popper bracket with other sectors and particularly with the policy. Classically we defined a science in a positive way. we choose an hypothesis, we accumulated experiments to c Leggi tutto

what is the book all about? it discusses epistemology(philosophy of knowledge), philosophy of science, logic, philosophy of language and politics. every article is an independant article, which can be read separately. the book's title "conjectures and refutations" is borrowed from one of the articles w Leggi tutto

The most influential book on my thinking thus far — this work is responsible for my Popperian Enlightenment. Popper expounds a simple thesis: we learn from trial and error. He illuminates the deep consequences of this theory, demonstrating its implications for institutional design, political and soc Leggi tutto

Here endeth my reading of Popper's quartet of book-scale works. This volume covers ground from the other three, primarily "The Logic of Scientific Enquiry", but also elements of "The Open Society (...)" It takes the form of a collection of presentation texts and papers discussing the earlier materia Leggi tutto

This is in places an extremely engaging and intriguing book. The history of philosophy Popper describes in the early chapters is fascinating, as is his chapter 15 demolishing Hegelian and Marxist dialectic; between Gilson and Popper I have a feeling of much stronger grip of the history of philosophy Leggi tutto

This collection of Popper's talks and papers contains a typical set of strident claims about knowledge and related matters, particularly in the areas of scientific discovery but not only. Popper weaves together philosophy, history of ideas and the history of science into a compelling mix. I enjoyed

Popper is brilliant. He's a terrific writer - his thoughts are original, yet is prose is clear and straightforward. With the exception of one or two boring essays, this collection is the shit. Check it out