When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.
Language analysts believe that there are no genuine philosophical problems, or that the problems of philosophy, if any, are problems of linguistic usage, or of the meaning of words. I, however, believe that there is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the world—including ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it. (查看原文)
Language analysts regard themselves as practitioners of a method peculiar to philosophy. I think they are wrong, for I believe in the following thesis.
Philosophers are as free as others to use any method in searching for truth. There is no method peculiar to philosophy.
A second thesis which I should like to propound here is this. The central problem of epistemology has always been and still is the problem of the growth of knowledge. And the growth of knowledge can be studied best by studying the growth of scientific knowledge.
I do not think that the study of the growth of knowledge can be replaced by the study of linguistic usages, or of language systems. (查看原文)
Routledge Classics(共181册)，
这套丛书还有
《To Hell With Culture (Routledge Classics)》《The Wheel of Fire》《Purity and Danger》《Romantic Image (Routledge Classics)》《General Theory of Magic》
等
。
Popper's work (in general) and this book (in particular) have been much admired by non-philosophers who wanted to have something simple and solid to rely on: and much despised and assaulted by other philosophers of science who liked to have something large ...
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2 有用 君 2021-03-31 13:22:17
在此之后再写的人都是无理取闹
0 有用 李阿斗 2016-09-27 13:27:21
第四本专业读物：Popper为了证明伪证对于科学的意义也是用力过猛，搬出了概率论和量子力学，当然他也真是博学多识。对于这本书里程碑式的意义不必赘述，除了核心思想外我只吸收了50%的养分。如果时间够长，值得细读。
2 有用 目送飞鸿 2022-01-10 13:23:22
这本书的核心观点是：可证伪性是科学和非科学的分界（demarcation）。本书行文非常繁琐，而且定义很随意，想起一个观点就来一个定义。饶是我花了很大精力，以极慢的速度，一遍将它读明白（附录以逻辑证明为主的部分跳过），最后还是觉得这时间花得不太值得。作者可能自己觉得很有意思吧。在现代科学下，哲学真没啥地位了。作者花了不少精力来谈思维实验突破不确定性原理，以及他对EPR的认识，但都是错误的。哲学家来... 这本书的核心观点是：可证伪性是科学和非科学的分界（demarcation）。本书行文非常繁琐，而且定义很随意，想起一个观点就来一个定义。饶是我花了很大精力，以极慢的速度，一遍将它读明白（附录以逻辑证明为主的部分跳过），最后还是觉得这时间花得不太值得。作者可能自己觉得很有意思吧。在现代科学下，哲学真没啥地位了。作者花了不少精力来谈思维实验突破不确定性原理，以及他对EPR的认识，但都是错误的。哲学家来谈量子物理，基本是不自量力。 (展开)
0 有用 张海参崴 2021-06-19 01:40:09
做科研真的应该都读一读
1 有用 安静 ら 空 ベ 2019-01-16 04:33:26
波普尔作为一名科学主义者，却并不是一个“科学至上论”或“唯科学主义”的鼓吹者。他的理论，让我时刻清醒的认识到，科学知识并非人类唯一的智性事业。我认为这本书应该是理工科研究生的必读书籍。