The Cambridge Companion to Popper

The Cambridge Companion to Popper
Author: Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521856450

This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.

The Cambridge Companion to Popper

The Cambridge Companion to Popper
Author: Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2016-06-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316546071

Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His criticism of induction and his falsifiability criterion of demarcation between science and non-science were major contributions to the philosophy of science. Popper's broader philosophy of critical rationalism comprised a distinctive philosophy of social science and political theory. His critique of historicism and advocacy of the open society marked him out as a significant philosopher of freedom and reason. This book sets out the historical and intellectual contexts in which Popper worked, and offers an overview and diverse criticisms of his central ideas. The volume brings together contributors with expertise on Popper's work, including people personally associated with Popper (such as Jarvie, Miller, Musgrave, Petersen and Shearmur), specialists on the topics treated (Bradie, Godfrey-Smith and Jackson), and scholars with special interests in aspects of Popper's work (Andersson, Hacohen, Maxwell and Stokes).

The Cambridge Companion to Hayek

The Cambridge Companion to Hayek
Author: Edward Feser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139827588

F. A. Hayek (1899–1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any other recent thinker to elucidate the theoretical foundations of the free market economy. His account of the role played by market prices in transmitting economic knowledge constituted a devastating critique of the socialist ideal of central economic planning, and his famous book The Road to Serfdom was a prophetic statement of the dangers which socialism posed to a free and open society. He also made significant contributions to fields as diverse as the philosophy of law, the theory of complex systems, and cognitive science. The essays in this volume, by an international team of contributors, provide a critical introduction to all aspects of Hayek's thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin
Author: Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2009-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521884756

This volume provides the reader with clear, lively and balanced introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies.

The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory

The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
Author: Fred Leland Rush
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521016896

Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers such as Pollock and Neumann. The volume surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, while at the same time showing the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school. The result is an illuminating overview of the entire history of Critical Theory in the twentieth century, an examination of its central conceptual concerns, and an in-depth discussion of its future prospects.

The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Author: Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1993-01-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521387118

This volume considers all the major aspects of Hegel's work: epistemology, logic, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of history, and philosophy of religion.

The Cambridge Companion to Plato

The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1992-10-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521436106

Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.

The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop

The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop
Author: Justin A. Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107037468

This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge

Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge
Author: John H. Sceski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007-02-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 144112019X

John H. Sceski argues that Karl Popper's philosophy offers a radical treatment of objectivity that can reconcile freedom and progress in a manner that preserves the best elements of the Enlightenment tradition. His book traces the development of Popper's account of objectivity by examining his original contributions to key issues in the philosophy of science. Popper's early confrontation with logical positivism, his rarely discussed four-fold treatment of the problem of induction, and his theory of propensities and evolutionary epistemology are linked in a novel way to produce a coherent and philosophically relevant picture of objectivity. Sceski also explores and clarifies many central issues in the philosophy of science such as probabilistic support, verisimilitude, and the relationship between special relativity and indeterminism. He concludes that Popper's account of objectivity can best bridge the gap between Enlightenment aims for science and freedom and post-modern misgivings about 'truth', by developing a philosophy that is non-foundationalist yet able to account for the growth of knowledge.