- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Fontana Press; (Reissue) edition (30 July 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006860087
- ISBN-13: 978-0006860082
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 131,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.
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Make that "Really excellent". In a hundres pages or so Bryan Magee articulates the main ideas and issues from the work of Karl Popper.
Popper's thoughts on how we make sense of our world - using a scientific approach or otherwise - and how it can be so easy for everyone (including "scientists") to jump to and stick to disastrously wrong conclusions - are of huge importance. He has plenty more to offer too, eg on totalitarian government vs liberal democracy.
I'd go so far as to say that you can't make good science, or good public policy, without having a serious think about the issues raised by Popper.
Required reading for anyone with an interest in science, social science, public policy, politics, or philosophy.
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A brilliant presentation, concise and concentrated, of the thought of Karl Popper with its main complementary components: science, philosophy, epistemology and politics; all in application of his evolutionary rationalism, his theory of Knowledge.
Bryan Magee shows very well the unity of methodology in Popper's works, upon what the author called critical rationalism in philosophy and epistemology, and "piecemeal social engineering" in politics. The great philosopher of sciences disapproved essentialism, determinism, and historicism, throughout all the matters the more important is the use of the good method, with a good conception of reason and science, so a logic of scientific discovery. It is a matter of scientific progress, of knowledge and culture in general, and of democracy (differing from utopias). Finally the reader is advised to turn to Popper's books.
Bryan Magee shows very well the unity of methodology in Popper's works, upon what the author called critical rationalism in philosophy and epistemology, and "piecemeal social engineering" in politics. The great philosopher of sciences disapproved essentialism, determinism, and historicism, throughout all the matters the more important is the use of the good method, with a good conception of reason and science, so a logic of scientific discovery. It is a matter of scientific progress, of knowledge and culture in general, and of democracy (differing from utopias). Finally the reader is advised to turn to Popper's books.
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Popper contributed far more than The Open Society and its Enemies. His thoughts on scientific method are probably more important, and not just for "science". This short guide by Bryan Magee is clear, concise, well-written and a pleasure to read, which is a lot more than can be said for most such introductions.
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Magee knows nothing about science, or about historical sociology...
Magee was a sort of official philosopher - bland, regurgitating others' opinions, ignorant, complacent. It's only because his type is promulgated e.g. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Rerevisionist
Page 14 Blank!!
Imagine my surprise to find page 14 blank. It deals with Poppers translations from the Greek, I presume... I'd like to read that page. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Birdland
One of the few books to have affected my way of thinking
I first read this book about Karl Popper over thirty years ago and have re-read it several times. It is one of the few books that has affected my whole world view and in two ways. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Noah Morris
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