Volume 49, Number 18 · November 21, 2002
Looking for a Black Swan
By Colin McGinn
All Life Is Problem Solving
by Karl Popper, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller
Routledge, 171 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
Ecco, 340 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophyin Interwar Vienna
by Malachi Haim Hacohen
Cambridge University Press, 610 pp., $25.00 (paper)
Karl Popper: Lesson of This Century
interviewed by Giancarlo Bosetti, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller
Routledge, 96 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Karl Popper, who died in 1994, was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century—as much outside the profession of philosophy as within it (Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Sir Peter Medawar, and Sir Ernst Gombrich were ardent Popperians). An emigrant from Vienna in 1937, who had fled the Nazis, Popper spent his early academic years in New Zealand before obtaining a post at the London School of Economics in 1945, where he taught until he re-tired. (Popper's early years are comprehensively covered in Malachi Haim Hacohen's The Formative Years.) Polymathic, prolific, strong-willed, he made his mark in both the philosophy of science and political philosophy, later developing distinctive views in the philosophy of mind and even Greek philosophy.
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