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  • The Open Society and Its Enemies

    by Karl R. Popper ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper’s monumental ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Objective Knowledge

    An Evolutionary Approach

    by Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'We are workers who are adding to the growth of objective knowledge as masons work on a cathedral'- Karl Popper, Objective KnowledgeThe extent and scope of human knowledge is arguably one of humankind's greatest achievements. Since Descartes, however, the theory of human knowledge has been mainly what philosophers call subjectivist: even scientific knowledge was regarded as a special kind of human ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Poverty of Historicism

    by Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it ... Read more

    $38.46 CAD

  • The Lesson of this Century

    With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State

    by Karl Popper ...
    One of the century's greatest and most influential thinkers, Karl Popper reminds us that we must recognize our responsibilities in preserving the democratic system we enjoy: it is our actions which will create the world of tomorrow.In these interviews with journalist Giancarlo Bosetti, Karl Popper ranges widely over contemporary political and social issues. He reflects on many topics, from the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Open Universe

    An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science. ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Realism and the Aim of Science

    From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • In Search of a Better World

    Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

    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, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course of the twentieth century. His subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The World of Parmenides

    Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

    by Karl Popper ...
    This unique collection of essays, published together for the first time, not only elucidates the complexity of ancient Greek thought, but also reveals Karl Popper's engagement with Presocratic philosophy and the enlightenment he experienced in his reading of Parmenides. As Karl Popper himself states himself in his introduction, he was inspired to write about Presocratic philosophy for two reasons ... Read more

    $64.57 CAD

  • Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

    In Defence of Interaction

    by Karl 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 ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions that ... Read more

    Was $89.31 CAD Now $79.69 CAD

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    Conjectures and Refutations

    The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

    by Karl Popper ...
    Narrated by Martyn Swain ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 14 min

    Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights 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 ... Read more

    $39.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Framework

    In Defence of Science and Rationality

    by Karl 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. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook