This classic remains one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute
insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION:On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance
CONJECTURES
1. Science:Conjectures and Refutations
2. The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science
3. Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge
4. Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition
5. Back to the Presocratics
6. A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein
7. Kant's Critique and Cosmology
8. On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics
9. Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality
10. Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
REFUTATIONS
11. The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics
12. Language and the Body-Mind Problem
13. A Note on the Body-Mind Problem
14. Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language
15. What is Dialectic?
16. Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences
17. Public Opinion and Liberal Principles
18. Utopia and Violence
19. The History of Our Time:An Optimist's View
20. Humanism and Reason
