| Description |
viii, 299 p. |
| Series |
Contemporary European cultural studies |
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Contemporary European cultural studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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 siecle against Freud -- Karl Buhler 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 siecle Vienna. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994.
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Vienna circle.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781888570922 (pbk.) |
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188857092X (pbk.) |
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