Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.  Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is the third volume of the Postscript. It may be read independently, but it also forms part of Popper’s interconnected argument in the Postscript. It presents Popper’s classic statement on quantum physics and offers important insights into his thinking on problems of method within science and physics as a whole.

Quantum theory and the schism in physics (The Postscript to The logic of scientific discovery)

Science & Math

Popper, Karl Raimund

Physics

Unwin Hyman

Logic of Scientific Discovery

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Basic Books

The way in which knowledge progresses, and especially our scientific knowledge, is by unjustified (and unjustifiable) anticipations, by guesses, by tentative solutions to our problems, by conjectures. These conjectures are controlled by criticism: that is, by attempted refutations, which include severely critical tests. They may survive these tests; but they can never be positively justified: they can neither be established as certainly true nor even as 'probable' (in the sense of the probability calculus). Criticism of our conjectures is of decisive importance: by bringing out our mistakes it makes us understand the difficulties of the problems which we try to solve. This is how we become better acquainted with our problem, and able to propose more mature solutions: the very refutation of a theory - that is, of a tentative solution to our problem - is always a step forward that takes us nearer the truth. And this is how we can learn from our mistakes. As we learn from our mistakes our knowledge grows, even though we may never know - that is, know for certain. Since our knowledge can grow, there can be no reason here for despair of reason. And since we can never know for certain, the can be no authority here for any claim to authority, for conceit over our knowledge, or for smugness. The essays and lectures of which this book is composed apply this thesis to many topics, ranging from problems of the philosophy and history of the physical and social sciences to historical and political problems.

Conjectures and Refutations

HarperCollins, Publishers

Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.  Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non-justificationist theory of knowledge: science aims at true explanatory theories, yet it can never prove, or justify, any theory to be true, not even if is a true theory. Science must continue to question and criticise all its theories, even those that happen to be true. Realism and the Aim of Science presents Popper’s mature statement on scientific knowledge and offers important insights into his thinking on problems of method within science.

Realism and the aim of science

Hutchinson

The problem of the relation between our bodies and our minds, and espe cially of the link between brain structures and processes on the one hand and mental dispositions and events on the other is an exceedingly difficult one. Without pretending to be able to foresee future developments, both authors of this book think it improbable that the problem will ever be solved, in the sense that we shall really understand this relation. We think that no more can be expected than to make a little progress here or there. We have written this book in the hope that we have been able to do so. We are conscious of the fact that what we have done is very conjectur al and very modest. We are aware of our fallibility; yet we believe in the intrinsic value of every human effort to deepen our understanding of our selves and of the world we live in. We believe in humanism: in human rationality, in human science, and in other human achievements, however fallible they are. We are unimpressed by the recurrent intellectual fashions that belittle science and the other great human achievements. An additional motive for writing this book is that we both feel that the debunking of man has gone far enough - even too far. It is said that we had to learn from Copernicus and Darwin that man's place in the universe is not so exalted or so exclusive as man once thought. That may well be.

The Self and Its Brain

Eccles, John C.

Springer, Verlag

xiii 431p large hardback, black cloth, red dustjacket, index, this copy has suffers a blunt impact to bottom left and top right, this has distorted the bottom of the spine, creased lower boards, inner hinge tearing, pages showing crease thoughout, but all the words are still well in place, poor copy

Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge,

Routledge & K.Paul

Poverty of Historicism (Ark Paperbacks)

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The open universe: An argument for indeterminism (The Postscript to The logic of scientific discovery / as edited by W.W. Bartley, III)

Rowman and Littlefield

Quantum theory and the schism in physics (The Postscript to The logic of scientific discovery / as edited by W.W. Bartley, III)

Rowan and Littlefield

At one time, scientific method seemed to satisfy the need for universality and necessity on which modern science was based. It was possible for everyone to retrace the same methodological itinerary, with the assurance of reaching certain results. Today, owing to the complexity of reality, this conviction seems to be no longer tenable. But it would be a great mistake, nevertheless, to maintain that it is pointless to talk about method.Even disorder itself, when disassembled according to a criterion, shows some possibilities of order, and thanks to the help of variables, can be understood and represented graphically. We find ourselves faced with a paradox: from apparent casuality, order begins to emerge little by little - certainly not a static order of the Aristotelian or scholastic type, but a dynamic order which, once a certain threshold is passed, runs the risk of hurling itself back into chaos, and, often, of preparing once again for some forms of order.It seems almost like meeting with some kind of "logical unpredictability", which nevertheless proves possible to measure, even if at times only approximately. To speak of "logical unpredictability" may seem almost a contradiction in terms, but as has been amply demonstrated by a series of experiments, among all the possible trajectories of disorder, nature only favours certain ones.

Dynamic Order: The Problem of Method in Evolving Nature : With Letters from N. Rescher, L. Pauling, J. Eccles, and K.R. Popper (Millennium (Series), 6.)

RESCHER, NICHOLAS

PAULING, LINUS

Pezzimenti, Rocco

Politics & Government

Fowler Wright Books Ltd

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