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Conjectures and Refutations
- The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge but our aims and our standards grow through an unending process of trial and error.
Popper brilliantly demonstrates how knowledge grows by guesses or conjectures and tentative solutions, which must then be subjected to critical tests. Although they may survive any number of tests, our conjectures remain conjectures, they can never be established as true. What makes Conjectures and Refutations such an enduring book is that Popper goes on to apply this bold theory of the growth of knowledge to a fascinating range of important problems including the role of tradition, the origin of the scientific method, the demarcation between science and metaphysics, the body-mind problem, the way we use language, how we understand history and the dangers of public opinion. Throughout the book Popper stresses the importance of our ability to learn from our mistakes.
Conjectures and Refutations is essential listening and a book to be returned to again and again.
Karl Popper (1902-94), philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.
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- Marcus
- 15-08-22
Amazing! Karl Popper is a legend
I am so happy this is finally on Audible! I have been searching for this on and off on audible for a long time now, and have been using text-to-speech and YouTube videos to piece together an audio format. Very glad this is here with a full contents list and can sit with my other books. Thank you!
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