Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

by Karl Popper
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

by Karl Popper

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Overview

"Although most of us know the date and place of our birth...few know when and how their intellectual life began. .." Here one of the greatest thinkers of our age recalls the landmarks of his development. Apprenticed to a cabinet maker, Popper found that philosophical daydreams interfered with the quality of his French polish, making him realize that he was too 'ignorant and fallible' for manual work. Popper's memories of the first world war, love affair with Marxism and the working class, involvement in music, and reactions to antisemitism are as vital to this story as his encounters with Einstein, Russell, carnap, and Wittgenstein."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780875483436
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 12/01/1982
Edition description: REV
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karl Popper (1902-1994). Philosopher, born in Vienna. one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Omniscience and Fallibility; Chapter 2 Childhood Memories; Chapter 3 Early Influences; Chapter 4 The First World War; Chapter 5 An Early Philosophical Problem; Chapter 6 My First Philosophical Failure; Chapter 7 A Long Digression Concerning Essentialism; Chapter 8 A Crucial Year; Chapter 9 Early Studies; Chapter 10 A Second Digression; Chapter 11 Music; Chapter 12 Speculations About the Rise of Polyphonic Music; Chapter 13 Two Kinds of Music; Chapter 14 Progressivism in Art, Especially in Music; Chapter 15 Last Years at the University; Chapter 16 Theory of Knowledge; Chapter 17 Who Killed Logical Positivism?; Chapter 18 Realism and Quantum Theory; Chapter 19 Objectivity and Physics; Chapter 20 Truth; Probability; Corroboration; Chapter 21 The Approaching War; The Jewish Problem; Chapter 22 Emigration; Chapter 23 Early Work in New Zealand; Chapter 24 The Open Society and the Poverty of Historicism; Chapter 25 Other Work in New Zealand; Chapter 26 England; Chapter 27 Early Work in England; Chapter 28 First Visit to the United States; Chapter 29 Problems and Theories; Chapter 30 Debates with SchröDinger; Chapter 31 Objectivity and Criticism; Chapter 32 Induction; Deduction; Objective Truth; Chapter 33 Metaphysical Research Programmes; Chapter 34 Fighting Subjectivism in Physics; Chapter 35 Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time; Chapter 36 The Subjectivist Theory of Entropy; Chapter 37 Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme; Chapter 38 World 3 or the Third World; Chapter 39 The Body-Mind Problem and World 3; Chapter 40 The Place of Values in a World of Facts;
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