The Logic of Scientific Discovery

2014 Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character of scientific discovery--a picture which does full justice to the liberating effect of the Einsteinian revolution in physics and its immense impact upon scientific thought in general. For this new English edition Dr. Popper did his own translation and has written 150 pages of entirely new text. Ernest Nagel considered this work "a first rate contribution to the logic of scientific method. The book contains a very interesting chapter on quantum mechanics, which performs one of the few sensible analyses of the Indeterminacy Principle which I have seen in print... The book is highly stimulating and contains much that is bed-rock for future work."--From the Dusk Jacket.

ISBN-13: 9781614277439

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Martino Fine Books

Publication Date: 12-03-2014

Pages: 482

Product Dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.07(d)

Table of Contents

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1934
PREFACE TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 1959
PART I. Introduction to the Logic of Science
1. A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems
2. On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method
PART II. Some Structural Components of a Theory of Experience
3. Theories
4. Falsifiability
5. The Problem of the Empirical Basis
6. Degrees of Testability
7. Simplicity
8. Probability
9. Some Observations on Quantum Theory
10. Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests
APPENDICES
NEW APPENDICES
INDICES
Name Index
Subject Index
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