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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454390403321

Autore

Antiseri Dario

Titolo

Popper's Vienna [[electronic resource] /] / Dario Antiseri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, Publishers, c2006

ISBN

1-935790-02-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Contemporary European cultural studies

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Vienna circle

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Ernst Mach's knowledge and error and Karl Popper's the logic of scientific discovery -- Three German scientists : Justus von Liebig, Heinrich Hertz and Albert Einstein  and two American philosophers, Charles S. Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis -- The construction of a logic of hypotheses in English, French and Italian thinkers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Evolutionary epistemology in Vienna from Ernst Mach to Karl Popper -- The Vienna fin de siècle against Freud -- Karl Bühler and Heinrich Gomperz : Karl Popper's two Viennese masters -- Carl Menger and Karl Popper : the shortcomings and errors of historicism -- Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Karl Popper : four Viennese in defense of methodological individualism -- Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper : two Viennese critics of Plato's totalitarianism -- The destiny of historical materialism and dialectical materialism in fin de siècle Vienna.