Unended Quest PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Unended Quest PDF full book. Access full book title Unended Quest.
Author | : Karl Popper |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-09-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134449720 |
Download Unended Quest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to Popper's philosophy, Unended Quest also shines. Popper lucidly explains the central ideas in his work, making this book ideal for anyone coming to Popper's life and work for the first time.
Author | : Karl Raimund Popper |
Publisher | : Fontana Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Unended Quest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David Baldwin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317229959 |
Download Robert A. Dahl: an unended quest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is devoted to the work of Robert A. Dahl, who passed away in 2014. Dahl was one of the most important American political scientists and normative democratic theorists of the post-war era, and he was also an influential teacher who mentored some of the most significant academics of the next two generations of American political science. As an incredibly productive scholar he had a career that spanned more than half a century, his first book was published in 1950 his last was in 2007 at the age of 92. As a political scientist, he was respected even by those who were critical of his works. This theoretical significance and profound influence is reflected in the collection of chapters in this volume, which reads like a ‘who’s who’ of the contemporary US political science scene. His co-author Bruce Stinebrickner documents the evolution of his and Dahl’s seminal text, Modern Political Analysis and how it became the standard introduction to American political science for nearly fifty years. Katharine MacKinnon’s chapter is of significance for its insights upon Dahl and also represents a succinct statement of a feminist reading and critique of contemporary political science. Steven Lukes contributes a highly concise statement of the difference between one-dimensional and three-dimensional power. This work will be a standard reference work for any researchers or those interested in the work of Robert Dahl, among both established academics and students. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Political Power.
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : Cosimo Classics |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1616409614 |
Download My Own Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a final, short summary of his life and works, David Hume wrote My Own Life as he suffered from gastrointestinal issues that ultimately killed him. Despite his bleak prognosis, Hume remains lighthearted and inspirational throughout. He discusses his life growing up, his family relationships, and his desire to constantly improve his works and his reputation as an author. He confesses, "I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have... never suffered a moment's abatement of my spirits; insomuch that were I to name the period of my life which I should most choose to pass over again, I might be tempted to point to this later period." This short biography ends with a series of letters from Hume's close friend and fellow author Adam Smith to their publisher William Strahan, recounting Hume's death and giving a stirring eulogy in honor of their friend.
Author | : Karl Popper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Unended Quest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Karl Raimund Popper |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | : 9780415285940 |
Download Conjectures and Refutations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.
Author | : David Edmonds |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2002-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0060936649 |
Download Wittgenstein's Poker Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement. An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein's Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight.
Author | : Thomas Trzyna |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-01-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004335838 |
Download Karl Popper and Literary Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Karl Popper’s philosophy of science, with its focus on falsifiability and critical rationalism, provides a firm foundation for a theory of literary interpretation that avoids the pitfalls of many contemporary theories. Building on the work of Popper, John Eccles, Imre Lakatos, Ernst Gombrich, Louise DeSalvo and James Battersby, this study outlines the approach, sets it in a theoretical context, and applies the theory to challenging works by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea, Jean Toomer, Shakespeare, Henry Fielding, J-M.G. LeClézio, J.M. Coetzee, Jonathan Littell, Patrick Modiano, Albert Schweitzer, Popper’s protégé William Warren Bartley III and the Gospel of Mark. The book concludes with a set of general principles for understanding literature as a mode of investigation in what Popper called the unended quest.
Author | : Timothy Zahn |
Publisher | : Lucas Books |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Leia, Princess (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 0345459164 |
Download Star Wars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara Jade, journey to the planet of Nirauan to combat an insidious enemy and salvage a part of Jedi history.
Author | : Hatlebrekke Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748691855 |
Download Problem of Secret Intelligence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is intelligence - why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Classic intelligence analysis is based on an inference between history and the future - and this has led to a restriction in how we can perceive new threats, and new variations of threats. Now, Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke rethinks intelligence analysis, arguing that good intelligence is based on understanding the threats that appear beyond our experience, and are therefore the most dangerous to society.