Unended quest : (Record no. 45924)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780875483436875483437 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | B1649.P64 |
| Item number | .A3 1990 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Popper, Karl |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Unended quest : |
| Remainder of title | an intellectual autobiography / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Karl Popper |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Rev. ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | La Salle, Ill. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Open Court, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1990, c1976. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 258 p. |
| Other physical details | ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | First ed. published in 1974 as vol. 2 of The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Open Court, La Salle, Ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-250) and index. Omniscience and fallibility -- Childhood memories -- Early influences -- The First World War -- Infinity -- The problem of essentialism -- A long digression concerning essentialism -- Marxism; science and pseudoscience -- Early studies -- Dogmatic and critical thinking -- Music -- Speculations about the rise of polyphonic music -- Two kinds of music -- Progressivism in art, especially in music -- Last years at the university -- Theory of knowledge -- Who killed logical positivism? -- Realism and quantum theory -- Objectivity and physics -- Truth; probability; corroboration -- The approaching war; the Jewish problem -- Emigration: England and New Zealand -- Early work in New Zealand -- The open society and The poverty of historicism -- Other work in New Zealand -- England -- Early work in England -- First visit to the United States. Meeting Einstein -- Problems and theories -- Debates with SchrèodInger -- Objectivity and criticism -- Induction; deduction; objective truth -- Metaphysical research programmes -- Fighting subjectivism in physics -- Boltzmann and the arrow of time -- The subjectivist theory of entropy -- Darwinism as a metaphysical research programme -- World 3 or the third world -- The body-mind problem and world 3 -- The place of values in a world of facts. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994. |
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