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Popper Cb 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Bryan Magee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Karl Popper is not, as yet anyway, a household name among the educated, and this fact requires explanation. In this book, Bryan Magee gives a bold, clear outline of Popper's thought which exhibits its systematic unity.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0713001099
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    October 28, 2013
  6. Language
    English
  7. File size
    289 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00J4BR2UC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (October 28, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 28, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 289 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0713001097
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Nicholas Kadar
5.0 out of 5 stars I deserved more stars than this
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2019
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The best way to express my view of this lucid, mind-expanding masterpiece, that every scientist and doctor must read, is by saying of all the people in the world the person I would most like to have dinner with is Bryan Magee.
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David Hirsh
5.0 out of 5 stars From a former philosophy major
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2019
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A clear and concise review Popper’s most important contributions to scientific and political thought. Completely relevant to today’s era of fake news and pseudoscience.
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Carlos Cortez
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019
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Well written, and in-depth on an outstanding thinker of our time
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Jon Fobes
5.0 out of 5 stars VERY HAPPY
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015
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YES!! Very happy with all aspects of the order.
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Ward Abel
5.0 out of 5 stars Making the complex a little more simple
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2022
First read this as a student in London in the ‘80’s, decided to order a new copy…and it is even better now, having lived a few more decades. Magee is a wonderful writer, making Popper’s sometime complex ideas seem more understandable. Great read.
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Jusuf Hariman
5.0 out of 5 stars Sir Karl R Popper
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2009
The late Sir Karl R Popper has been hailed by professional colleagues as the most formidable living critic of Marxism; as the greatest philosopher of science there has ever been; as a thinker whose influence is acknowledged by men of action (eg George Soros) as well as by an almost bewildering variety of scholars - and yet, he remained comparatively unknown to a wider audience. This book is a lucid, based on close study and deep understanding. It is a superb and much needed book. It is a little masterpiece of clarity. This is the perfect pocket guide to a thinker whose importance it is impossible to overestimate. Magee does an excellent job of placing Popper's view of science within the wider context of his metaphysics - especially his picture of the evolution of man as a problem solver.
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Michael O'Neill
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2017
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Very good treatment of the subject
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James Frame
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant introduction to Popper: clear and concise.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2019
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It would be insulting to call Bryan Magee a populariser of philosophy, as he has written a magisterial and influential book on Schopenhauer, and he has an unparalleled ability to distill the essence of a philosopher’s work and interrogate him or her on it as he does in the books based on the famous BBC series. This introduction to Popper is amongst his best and one is not surprised to find that Popper himself contributed to, and endorsed it.
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saho27
1.0 out of 5 stars Ebook riddles with errors.
Reviewed in Australia on July 26, 2020
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This is a great title. But the ebook is riddled with bugs and errors. Get the physical copy instead.
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recluse
4.0 out of 5 stars Popperの思想体系の全体の整理
Reviewed in Japan on September 26, 2018
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少し前に、長年本棚に鎮座していた The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics) をやっと読了し、他にも控えているPopperの他の作品も読もうと思ったのですが、ふとはたしてどの程度popperの思想を理解できたのかが不安になり、なにかわかりやすい解説書がないか探してたどり着いたのがこの作品でした。いや驚きました。Brian Mageeの作品なんですわ。Brian Mageeといえばワグナー関係の書物 The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy 、で過去に読んだことがあり、その明晰でわかりやすい筆致が記憶に残っている著者でもあります。
さてこの作品はpopperの思想体系への簡潔な紹介を目的としています。popperの思想は自然科学だけではなく社会科学を含めた多岐の領域にわたるのですが、それ自身が全体としての体系的な統一を作り出しており、その観点からわかりやすく解説されていきます。まず知識、科学と科学的な方法が展開され、そして理論の持つ限界、verifiabilityとfalsifiabilityの違いやcriticismその重要性、最後はopen societyの主題でもあった政治哲学までもが本書ではカバーされていきます。そこで明らかにされるのが、方法論と政策論そして人間観そして認識論の間に存在する論理的な首尾一貫性なのです。わずか100ページの中にこれ程の概要が詰め込まれているという偉業が著者のたぐいまれな能力を示しています。
さて、残る疑問はこれを先に読むべきか、それとも私のように先にpopperの作品を読むべきかという点に帰着するのですが、これはどちらもありということになります。popperの作品は独特の文体と議論の型が魅力を持っているからです。
なおこの作品は1973年が初版であり、私が手元にあるのは、1982年の第10版です。中古で黄色くくすんだ代物です。紛らわしいのは, Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper という作品が同じ著者から出ている点ですが、中身は同じです。
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Agent Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Beste Kurzübersicht über Poppers gesamte Philosophie
Reviewed in Germany on March 10, 2015
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Ein sehr gut lesbares Buch, das auf nur etwa 100 Seiten einen sehr gut verständlichen Überblick über die gesamte Philosophie von Karl Popper bietet. Magee versteht Popper tatsächlich (was nicht selbstverständlich ist für Bücher über ihn) und beschreibt mit klaren Worten und ohne Geschwafel, was die entscheidenden Ideen sind, die man begreifen sollte. Das Buch ist oft gebraucht für einen Apfel und ein Ei zu haben. Zugreifen!
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Mr. Francois Marcognet
5.0 out of 5 stars L'oeuvre de Karl Popper
Reviewed in France on April 21, 2012
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Brillante présentation, concise et concentrée, de l'oeuvre de Karl Popper avec la complémentarité de ses composantes: philosophique, épistémologique, scientifique et politique. Dans tous les domaines Popper a appliqué sa théorie évolutionniste de la connaissance, sa philosophie des sciences ayant été présentée d'abord dans son livre "La logique de la découverte scientifique" avec la notion centrale de réfutabilité.
Bryan Magee montre bien l'unité de la méthode de Popper appelée par lui-même le rationalisme critique en philosophie et en épistémologie, et "piecemeal social engineering" en politique. Le maître de la philosophie des sciences a condamné l'essentialisme, le déterminisme et l'historicisme, tout en défendant son réalisme critique. Dans tous les domaines, ce qui compte est la bonne méthode, sur la base d'une conception juste de la science et de la raison, et de son application dépend le progrès scientifique et la démocratie. C'est en même temps bien sûr une invitation à la lecture des livres de Popper.
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