Suchergebnisse

1. Omniscience and fallibility -- 2. Childhood memories -- 3. Early influences -- 4. The first World War -- 5. An early philosophical problem : infinity -- 6. My first philosophical failure : the problem of essentialism -- 7. A long digression concerning essentialism : what still divides me from most contemporary philosophers -- 8. A crucial year : Marxism; science and pseudoscience -- 9. Early studies -- 10. A second digression : dogmatic and critical thinking; learning without induction -- 11. Music -- 12. Speculations about the rise of polyphonic music : psychology of discovery or logic of discovery? -- 13. Two kinds of music -- 14. Progressivism in art, especially in music -- 15. Last years at the university -- 16. Theory of knowledge : Logik der Forschung -- 17. Who killed logical positivism? -- 18. Realism and quantum theory -- 19. Objectivity and physics -- 20. Truth; probability; corroboration -- 21. The approaching war; the Jewish problem -- 22. Emigration : England and New Zealand -- 23. Early work in New Zealand -- 24. The open society and the poverty of historicism -- 25. Other work in New Zealand -- 26. England : at the London School of Economics and Political Science -- 27. Early work in England -- 28. First visit to the United States : meeting Einstein -- 29. Problems and theories -- 30. Debates with Schrdinger -- 31. Objectivity and criticism -- 32. Induction; deduction; objective truth -- 33. Metaphysical research programmes -- 34. Fighting subjectivism in physics : quantum mechanics and propensity -- 35. Boltzmann and the arrow of time -- 36. The subjectivist theory of entropy -- 37. Darwinism as a metaphysical research programme -- 38. World 3 or the third world -- 39. The body-mind problem and world 3 -- 40. The place of values in a world of facts.