Prologue: An idea to help save the world
Introduction
1. Karl Raimund Popper
2. Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and aim-oriented empiricism
3. Einstein, aim-oriented empiricism, and the discovery of special and general relativity
4. Non-empirical requirements scientific theories must satisfy: simplicity, unity, explanation, beauty
5. Scientific metaphysics
6. Comprehensibility rather than beauty
7. A mug’s game? Solving the problem of induction with metaphysical presuppositions
8. Does probabilism solve the great quantum mystery?
9. Science, reason, knowledge and wisdom: a critique of specialism
10. Karl Popper and the Enlightenment Programme
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787350397
Number of pages: 390
Number of illustrations: 4
Publication date: 26 September 2017
PDF ISBN: 9781787350397
EPUB ISBN: 9781787350380
Read Online ISBN: 9781787350366
Hardback ISBN: 9781787350403
Paperback ISBN: 9781787350410
Nicholas Maxwell (Author)Nicholas Maxwell has devoted much of his working life to arguing that we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it seeks and promotes wisdom and does not just acquire knowledge. He has published eight books on this theme, including How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World (2014) and In Praise of Natural Philosophy (2017). For 30 years he taught philosophy of science at University College London, where he is now Emeritus Reader. For more about his work, see www.ucl.ac.uk/from-knowledge-to-wisdom.
‘Maxwell has provided general philosophy of science with a book that is notably clear, earnestly written, passionate, and stunningly stimulating… a book with a panoply of exciting ideas and some relevance for almost anyone working in academia.’
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