Science and the Open Society
The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy
Mark Notturno, Central European University Foundation,
New York
"It is the best introduction to Popper's work that I have
ever read. given the recent deaths of Popper, Gellner
and Feyerabend, the time is ripe for a text that shows
the future relevance of the Popperian legacy. Its hard
to imagine a better book than Notturno's in that respect."
- Professor Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
"... the book can be considered as one of the
best introductory works to Popperian philosophy, in
particular Popper's political theory. In other words
Science and the Open Society is a very remarkable
map of the Popperian legacy to the political science
literature." - Millennium: Journal of Intrernational
Studies
Science and the Open Society is a clearly argued and easy
to read defense of Karl Popper's philosophy by Dr. Mark Notturno,
the man whom Popper chose to research and edit his archives.
The author argues that Popper's ideas about science and open
society are still largely misunderstood in the west, but are
now more important than ever in providing inspiration for
the people in Central and Eastern Europe and Middle Asia who
are struggling to open up their closed societies.
This groundbreaking volume draws together themes from Popper's
epistemology and social philosophy - showing, for example,
the connections between his distrust of communism and inductivism,
his resistance to institutionalized science and logical positivism,
and his opposition to intellectual authority and bureaucracy.
Notturno discusses Popper's disagreements with Wittgenstein,
Freud, Carnap, Gruenbaum and Kuhn, while developing the implications
of his view for a wide range of contemporary issues, including
politics, education, logic, critical thinking and the history
of 20th century philosophy.
Science and the Open Society is written for the general reader
in a style that will appeal to philosophers and non-philosophers
alike.
2000
300 pages
ISBN 978-963-9116-69-6 cloth Out of Print
ISBN 978-963-9116-70-2 paperback Out of Print
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