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Popper's Vienna [electronic resource] / Dario Antiseri.

By: Antiseri, Dario.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Contemporary European cultural studies: Publisher: Aurora, Colo. : Davies Group, Publishers, c2006Description: viii, 299 p. ; 21 cm.Uniform titles: Vienna di Popper. English Subject(s): Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994 | Vienna circleGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 192 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Ernst Mach's knowledge and error and Karl Popper's the logic of scientific discovery -- Three German scientists : Justus von Liebig, Heinrich Hertz and Albert Einstein and two American philosophers, Charles S. Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis -- The construction of a logic of hypotheses in English, French and Italian thinkers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Evolutionary epistemology in Vienna from Ernst Mach to Karl Popper -- The Vienna fin de siècle against Freud -- Karl Bühler and Heinrich Gomperz : Karl Popper's two Viennese masters -- Carl Menger and Karl Popper : the shortcomings and errors of historicism -- Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Karl Popper : four Viennese in defense of methodological individualism -- Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper : two Viennese critics of Plato's totalitarianism -- The destiny of historical materialism and dialectical materialism in fin de siècle Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references.

Ernst Mach's knowledge and error and Karl Popper's the logic of scientific discovery -- Three German scientists : Justus von Liebig, Heinrich Hertz and Albert Einstein and two American philosophers, Charles S. Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis -- The construction of a logic of hypotheses in English, French and Italian thinkers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Evolutionary epistemology in Vienna from Ernst Mach to Karl Popper -- The Vienna fin de siècle against Freud -- Karl Bühler and Heinrich Gomperz : Karl Popper's two Viennese masters -- Carl Menger and Karl Popper : the shortcomings and errors of historicism -- Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Karl Popper : four Viennese in defense of methodological individualism -- Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper : two Viennese critics of Plato's totalitarianism -- The destiny of historical materialism and dialectical materialism in fin de siècle Vienna.

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