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In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of
the most important contributions to the twentieth century
discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is
a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on
this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of
science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral
responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the
perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he
attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate
what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual
fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and
rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is
one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it
is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of
intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism -
a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an
attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published
in cooperation with the Central European University.
In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of
the most important contributions to the twentieth century
discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is
a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on
this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of
science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral
responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the
perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he
attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate
what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual
fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and
rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is
one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it
is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of
intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism -
a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an
attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published
in cooperation with the Central European University.
Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory
University, "Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem" raises problems
connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the
relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what
Popper calls "big issues" - too big for easy answers, but too
important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions
that follow them, Sir Karl develops a theory of body-mind
interaction. This theory involves evolutionary emergence, human
language, and that realm of autonomous products of the human mind
which Popper calls "World 3". According to Popper, consciousness
emerged in the course of evolution as a kind of control system for
the body, like a driver is a control system for a car. Objective
knowledge - the kind of knowledge that is found in books and
libraries - then emerged in the course of evolution as a higher
level control system for the mind. Simply put, objective knowledge
is the mind's control system for critical problem solving. In this
way, full consciousness - the kind of consciousness that humans can
have - is anchored in World 3 and is closely linked to human
language, problems, and theories.
'Here, Popper's ideas are expressed with a beguiling simplicity and
with considerable humour and charm. The enthusiasm (and,
occasionally, puzzlement) of the original audience is preserved in
the records of discussions following each lecture. The volume
serves as an excellent introduction to Popper's later thought for
those who think philosophy beyond them.' -- Roger Caldwell,
"Literary Review" Based on lectures given in 1969 by Sir Karl
Popper at Emory University, Popper argues forcefully that the
problem of the interaction between mental and physical states is
still open regardless of assertions by materialist philosophers'
that it has 'evaporated'.
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