Popper, Otto Selz and the rise of evolutionary epistemology
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521830744
- ISBN10 0521830745
- Type Book
- Pages 248
- Published 2004
- Bookbinding Cloth
Popper, Otto Selz and the rise of evolutionary epistemology
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
This book is about Karl Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that Popper's philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the psychology of Otto Selz, whose theory of problem solving and scientific discovery laid the foundation for much of contemporary cognitive psychology. By arguing that Popper's famous defence of the method of falsification and his elaboration of an evolutionary theory of knowledge are equally indebted to German psychology, Michel ter Hark challenges the received view of the development of Popper's philosophy. He concludes the book with a reinterpretation of Popper's theory of the mind-body problem, emphasizing its contemporary relevance.