01934nam a2200157Ia 4500008004100000020002700041041000800068050002500076100001800101245006700119250001300186260005000199300002200249505145800271650004701729230822s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780875483436875483437  aeng  aB1649.P64 b.A3 1990  aPopper, Karl  0aUnended quest : ban intellectual autobiography /cKarl Popper  aRev. ed.  aLa Salle, Ill. : bOpen Court, c1990, c1976.  a258 p.b;c21 cm.  aFirst 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.  aPopper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994.