Unended Quest

A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Popper explains the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Omniscience and Fallibility	p. 1
Childhood Memories	p. 3
The First World War	p. 9
An Early Philosophical Problem: Infinity	p. 11
My First Philosophical Failure: the Problem of Essentialism	p. 13
A Long Digression Concerning Essentialism: What Still Divides Me from Most Contemporary Philosophers	p. 15
Music	p. 56
Speculations About the Rise of Polyphonic Music: Psychology of Discovery or Logic of Discovery?	p. 59
Who Killed Logical Positivism?	p. 98
Objectivity and Physics	p. 109
Truth; Probability; Corroboration	p. 111
The Approaching War; the Jewish Problem	p. 119
Emigration: England and New Zealand	p. 123
The Open Society and the Poverty of Historicism	p. 130
Other Work in New Zealand	p. 137
England: at the London School of Economics and Political Science	p. 138
Debates with Schrödinger	p. 156
Metaphysical Research Programmes	p. 172
Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time	p. 181
The Subjectivist Theory of Entropy	p. 189
Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme	p. 194
World 3 or the Third World	p. 210
Postscript	p. 231
Postscript to Marxism, 1992	p. 235
Notes	p. 237
Main Publications and Abbreviations of Titles	p. 281
Select Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 301
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