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Dario Antiseri, Popper's Vienna:
World 3 of Vienna 1870–1930
Contemporary
European Cultural Studies
Series editors,
Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala
Popper’s Vienna
(La Vienna
di Popper) shows how the roots of all Popper's
epistemological and political work may be found in the
culture of that ‘Great Vienna’ that existed between 1870 and
1930. It is a rigorous reconstruction of the ideas and
debates of that 'Great Vienna’ — anti-induction; the idea of
fallibility of a theory as a criterion of distinction
between science and nonscience; evolutionary epistemology;
methodological individualism; anti-Platonism; critics of
Hegel, Marx and knowledge sociology; historical materialism
and dialectical materialism; and critics of Freud.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1.
Ernst Mach’s Knowledge and Error and Karl Popper’s
The Logic of Scientific
Discovery
Chapter 2. Three German scientists: Justus von Liebig,
Heinrich Hertz and Albert Einstein; and
two American
philosophers: Charles S. Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis
Chapter 3. The construction of a “logic of
hypotheses” in English, French and Italian thinkers
between
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Chapter 4. Evolutionary Epistemology in Vienna from
Ernst Mach to Karl Popper
Chapter 5. The Vienna fin de siècle
against Freud
Chapter 6. Karl Bühler and Heinrich Gomperz: Karl Popper’s two Viennese masters
Chapter 7. Carl Menger and Karl Popper: The “shortcomings”
and “errors” of historicism
Chapter 8. Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von
Hayek and Karl Popper: four
Viennese in defense of
methodological individualism
Chapter 9. Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper: Two Viennese
Critics of Plato’s Totalitarianism
Chapter 10. The destiny of historical materialism and
dialectical materialism in fin de siècle Vienna
Author
Dario Antiseri is Dean of the Center for Social
Sciences Methodology of LUISS, the “Guido Carli”
International Free University of Social Studies in Rome, and
teaches and researches in the philosophy of science and
linguistic philosophy. His publications, many of which have
been translated in several languages, are centered on
analytical-epistemological problems.
Among these:
Karl Popper. Epistemologia e societa aperta
(1972);
Teoria unificata del metodo
(1980);
Trattato di metodologia delle scienze sociali (1996);
Quale ragione?
(2001; with Giovanni Reale). With Giovanni Reale he is
author of a prestigious treatise of philosophy in three
volumes: Il pensiero occidentale dalle origini ad oggi
(1980; 45th ed. 2004) — this work has been
translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
La
Vienna di Popper
has also been translated into Spanish
and French
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