BOOKS by Karl Popper

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 4

sort by

1	Logic of Scientific Discovery more books like this by Karl Popper First published in English in 1959, Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge and is one of the most widely read books about science written last century. Described by the philosopher AJ Ayer as 'a work of great originality and power', Popper presents the two ideas that did ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $15.81! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge more books like this by Karl Popper 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 ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Poverty of Historicism more books like this by Karl Popper Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original minds of the twentieth century. At the time of its first publication in 1957, it was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Popper Selections more books like this by Karl Popper, David Miller (Editor) A sampling of the philosophical writings of Karl Popper includes discussions of rationalism, knowledge, human freedom, and the scientific method. see all copies from $17.95! new only from $26.41! \| SVS
5	Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1: The Spell of Plato more books like this by Karl Popper 'A work of first-class importance which ought to be widely read for its masterly criticism of the enemies of democracy, ancient and modern.'-Bertrand Russell see all copies from $10.78! new only from $24.95!
6	Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 2: The High Tide of Prophecy Aftermath more books like this by Karl Popper 'A work of first-class importance which ought to be widely read for its masterly criticism of the enemies of democracy, ancient and modern.'-Bertrand Russell see all copies from $15.00! new only from $26.22! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach more books like this by Karl Popper see all copies from $9.50! new only from $31.89! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Open society and its enemies more books like this by Karl R. Popper Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most famous books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $59.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Quantum theory and the schism in physics more books like this by Sir Karl Raimund Popper Popper carries his investigation right to the centre of current debate in quantum physics. He proposes an interpretation of physics, and indeed an entire cosmology, which is realist; conjectural; deductivist and objectivist; anti-positivist, and anti-instrumentalist. He stresses understanding; reminding us that our ignorance grows faster than our ... see all copies from $6.62! new only from $9.90! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Self and Its Brain more books like this by Karl Popper Distinguished philosopher Karl Popper and Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist Sir John Eccles argue the case for a highly distinctive view of the relation of mind and body. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $398.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography more books like this by Karl Popper For this Routledge edition of his autobiography, Karl Popper has added a preface "Postscript to Marxism", as well as an additional bibliographical essay. see all copies from $7.79! new only from $31.95! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism by Karl Popper, C Eccles John Distinguished philosopher Sir Karl Popper and Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Sir John Eccles argue the case for a highly distinctive view of the relation of mind and body. see all copies from $24.66! new only from $47.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction more books like this by Karl Raimund Popper Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, 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 ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $28.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Unended Quest more books like this by Karl Popper At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen 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. Popper witnessed two World Wars and the collapse ... see all copies from $9.08! new only from $13.14! \| SVS
15 view cover	Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge more books like this by Gerard Radnitzky (Editor), Karl Popper (Contributions by), W W Bartley, III (Editor) This collection of essays in support of the theory of evolutionary epistemology includes articles by Karl Popper, Peter Munz and Gerhard Vollmer. This volume attempts to show how an evolutionary and non-justificational approach affects the sociology of knowledge. see all copies from $10.45! new only from $35.39! \| SVS
16	The Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel and Marx more books like this by Popper Karl Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies" is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx ... see all copies from $20.95! new only from $20.95!
17 view cover	The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato by Popper Karl Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most famous books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of ... see all copies from $17.15! new only from $17.15!
18 view cover	Lesson of This Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State more books like this by Karl Popper Karl Popper has been known for more than half a century as a defender of freedom and an impartial critic of all forms of totalitarianism. He was an indefatigable opponent of the fashionable and the obscurantist in all intellectual fields - religion, nationalism, ideology - and the author of the most complete and radical critique of marxism (The ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $26.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years more books like this by Karl Popper "I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have," writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book. In the course of a life of 90 years Sir Karl can look back on positive changes in the world - the vast reductions in mass poverty, the liberalization of penal systems, the ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $35.09! \| first editions
20 view cover	The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment more books like this by Karl Popper, Arne Friemuth Petersen (Editor), Jorgen Mejer (Editor) The World of Parmenides comprises several essays on ancient Greek philosophy, inspired, as Sir Karl Popper himself states in his preface, by two desires - first, to illustrate the thesis that all history is the history of problem situations and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers ... see all copies from $30.70! new only from $30.70! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality more books like this by Karl Raimund Popper 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. In so doing, he has attacked intellectual fashions like positivism which exaggerate what science and rationality have done, and, at the same time, intellectual fashions like relativism ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $32.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Realism and the aim of science : from the Postscript to The logic of scientific discovery, edited by W.W. Bartley III more books like this by Karl R. Popper Popper formulates and explains his non-justificationist theory of knowledge. Science - empirical science - aims at true explanatory theories, yet it can never prove, or finally establish, or justify any of its theories as true, not even if it is in fact a true theory. Science must continue to question and criticize all its theories, even those ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $37.09! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	All Life is Problem Solving more books like this by Karl Popper, Popper Karl This text consists of 13 occasional pieces (lectures, seminar contributions, radio broadcasts and magazine articles) spanning the years from 1958 until 1993, all of which are published here in English for the first time, except two previously unpublished talks delivered in English towards the end of Karl Popper's life. The volume is divided into ... see all copies from $24.58! new only from $29.85!
24 view cover	The Open Universe: From the PostScript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery more books like this by Karl Popper "The Open Universe" is the centerpiece of the argument of the "Postscript." Popper argues in simple language for the freedom, creativity, and rationality of mankind. see all copies from $38.81! new only from $38.81! \| SVS
25 view cover	After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings more books like this by Karl Popper, Jeremy Shearmur (Editor), Piers Norris Turner (Editor) In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of "The Open Society" until his death in 1994. "After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings" reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during ... see all copies from $67.17! new only from $67.32! \| first editions \| SVS

Page 1 of 4: 1 2 3 4 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.