Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)
 

Conjectures and Refutations (Routledge Classics)

by Karl R. Popper

This classic remains one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. (read review)

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A very good book to make a quite complex image of Popper's philosophy. Not as technical and perhaps not as revolutionary as The "Logic of Scientific Discovery", "Conjectures and Refutations" takes the reader from epistemology and philosophy of science,, to social and politic philosophy, containing also some good hints about philosophy of language or interpretations on philosophers such as Kant or the presocratics. The book can also be considered a point of convergence between Popper's views...

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