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  • THE SPECTER OF THE ARCHIVE
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    THE SPECTER OF THE ARCHIVE
    NICHOLAS POPPER
    An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.   We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much inform...

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  • ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL CAPTIAL MOBILITY
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    ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL CAPTIAL MOBILITY
    HELEN POPPER
    Originally published in 1997, Issues in International Capital Mobility addresses a few of the ambiguities arising in empirical investigations of capital market openness. It does this by taking existing empirical approaches and adapting them to new markets and to new assets. It also examines the properties of one statistical method used to assess the extent of international capi...

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  • THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
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    THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
    KARL POPPER
    In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’ Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science, epistemology and twentieth century philosophy generally. The two fundamental prob...

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  • THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN
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    THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN
    JOHN C. ECCLES / KARL POPPER
    The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, th...

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  • THE MYTH OF THE FRAMEWORK
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    THE MYTH OF THE FRAMEWORK
    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 ...

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  • THE WORLD OF PARMENIDES
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    THE WORLD OF PARMENIDES
    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 philoso...

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  • KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM
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    KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM
    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...

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  • THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM
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    THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM
    KARL POPPER
    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 beau...

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  • THE LESSON OF THIS CENTURY
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    THE LESSON OF THIS CENTURY
    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 ...

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  • REALISM AND THE AIM OF SCIENCE
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    REALISM AND THE AIM OF SCIENCE
    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 ex...

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  • QUANTUM THEORY AND THE SCHISM IN PHYSICS
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    QUANTUM THEORY AND THE SCHISM IN PHYSICS
    KARL POPPER
    Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics 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. Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is the third volume of the Postscript. It may b...

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  • ALL LIFE IS PROBLEM SOLVING
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    ALL LIFE IS PROBLEM SOLVING
    KARL POPPER
    'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the Preface All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his th...

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  • THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
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    THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
    KARL POPPER
    Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of soci...

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  • IN SEARCH OF A BETTER WORLD
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    IN SEARCH OF A BETTER WORLD
    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 scientifi...

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  • THE OPEN UNIVERSE
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    THE OPEN UNIVERSE
    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. ...

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  • THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
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    THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
    KARL POPPER
    ‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’ - Karl Popper, from the Preface Written in political exile during the Second World War and ...

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  • THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
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    THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
    KARL POPPER
    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...

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  • UNENDED QUEST
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    UNENDED QUEST
    KARL POPPER
    At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was 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, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As ...

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  • THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
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    THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES
    KARL POPPER
    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 exposed the dangers inherent in centra...

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  • OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE
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    OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE
    KARL POPPER
    'We are workers who are adding to the growth of objective knowledge as masons work on a cathedral' - Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge The 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...

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  • WALTER RALEGH'S
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    WALTER RALEGH'S "HISTORY OF THE WORLD" AND THE HISTORICAL CULTURE OF THE LATE RENAISSANCE
    NICHOLAS POPPER
    Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments...

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  • THE WORLD OF PARMENIDES
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    THE WORLD OF PARMENIDES
    KARL POPPER
    With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to show the greatness of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philoso...

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  • CONJETURAS Y REFUTACIONES
    CONJETURAS Y REFUTACIONES
    POPPER
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    $1,019.00

  • LA SOCIEDAD ABIERTA Y SUS ENEMIGOS
    LA SOCIEDAD ABIERTA Y SUS ENEMIGOS
    KARL R. POPPER
    Según afirma su propio autor, este libro esboza algunas de las dificultades más importantes que debe afrontar nuestra civilización, una civilización que no se ha recobrado todavía completamente de la conmoción de su nacimiento, de la transición de la sociedad tribal o «cerrada», con su sometimiento a las fuerzas mágicas, a la «sociedad abierta», que pone en libertad las faculta...
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    $399.00

  • LA SOCIEDAD ABIERTA Y SUS ENEMIGOS
    LA SOCIEDAD ABIERTA Y SUS ENEMIGOS
    POPPER
    Agotado

    $269.00