Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge : Popper or Wittgenstein?

ISBN-13: 9781138778672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 366 str.

Peter Munz

Opis

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great 20th-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper's evolutionary epistemology - conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction 1. The Historicity of Knowledge 2. The Conditions of Historical Knowledge 3. Historical Circularity 4. Closed Circles 5. The Defence of Closed Circles 6. Evolutionary Epistemology 7. The Evolution of Evolution; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index