Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology by Michel Ter Hark

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By Michel Ter Hark

This e-book is ready Karl Popper's early writings sooner than he all started his occupation as a thinker. the aim of the booklet is to illustrate that Popper's philosophy of technological know-how, with its emphasis at the approach to trial and blunder, is essentially in line with the psychology of Otto Selz, whose conception of challenge fixing and medical discovery laid the root for far of latest cognitive psychology. through arguing that Popper's well-known defence of the strategy of falsification in addition to his elaboration of an evolutionary conception of information are both indebted to German psychology, Michel ter Hark demanding situations the acquired view of the advance of Popper's philosophy. The booklet concludes with a reinterpretation of Popper's idea of the mind-body challenge, emphasizing its modern relevance.

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