Volume 29, Number 18 · November 18, 1982
The 'Truth' of Karl Popper
By Jonathan Lieberson
Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by Karl R. Popper, edited by W. W. Bartley
Rowman and Littlefield, III pp.
I: Realism and the Aim of Science
432 pp., $35.00
II: The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism
185 pp., $23.50
III: Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics
229 pp., $26.50
Karl Popper
by Anthony O'Hear
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 219 pp., $25.00; $9.50 (paper)
Karl Popper is the author of a striking treatise on scientific method, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, as well as the celebrated wartime tract against totalitarianism notorious for its irreverent denunciations of Plato and Hegel, The Open Society and Its Enemies. He is an independent, versatile, lucid, and eloquent philosopher, among the most distinguished of contemporary thinkers who have undertaken the task—once a commonplace aspiration among philosophers but currently regarded by most of them as unduly ambitious—of constructing a rational critical system that would illuminate the entire range of human experience—science, art, morality, politics.
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