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182册)，
这套丛书还有
《Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus》《The Constitution of Liberty》《Madness and Civilization》《Purity and Danger》《The Accumulation of Capital》
等
。
To what extent is the definition of falsifiability subject to scientific discovery? What is the point of demarcating science from pseudo-science if not safeguarding both against the critique from one ...To what extent is the definition of falsifiability subject to scientific discovery? What is the point of demarcating science from pseudo-science if not safeguarding both against the critique from one other? Does this contribute to the divorce between arts and science, or does it enable scientific method to invade the area which it fails to govern?(展开)
Science pursues the illusory aim of making its answers final. Its advance is, rather, toward discovering new, deeper, and more general problems, and of subjecting our ever tentative answers to ever re...Science pursues the illusory aim of making its answers final. Its advance is, rather, toward discovering new, deeper, and more general problems, and of subjecting our ever tentative answers to ever renewed and more rigorous tests.(展开)
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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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。
0 有用 瓜 2016-09-16 06:12:42
To what extent is the definition of falsifiability subject to scientific discovery? What is the point of demarcating science from pseudo-science if not safeguarding both against the critique from one ... To what extent is the definition of falsifiability subject to scientific discovery? What is the point of demarcating science from pseudo-science if not safeguarding both against the critique from one other? Does this contribute to the divorce between arts and science, or does it enable scientific method to invade the area which it fails to govern? (展开)
1 有用 kelvin 2006-01-05 02:27:54
The idea of "falsifiability" came from this book in philosophy of science
0 有用 felsina 2023-08-17 20:44:49 加拿大
时间和行文技术性的关系没有通篇细读，但我想这本书动人之处有二。一是可证伪性概念的提出如此贴切而激进地与二十世纪初的各项科学革命呼应，这是一位哲学家对其时代的感知与思想交代；二是，波普尔在一战后至二战结束前构想的这套科学、历史、政治哲学是如此的自成一体、相互勾连，它们来自于一种完整的智识理想和追寻，既对知识的未来保持乐观，又对当时的现实危机有绝对的警醒。这无论如何都令人肃然起敬，也让任何后世的质疑和... 时间和行文技术性的关系没有通篇细读，但我想这本书动人之处有二。一是可证伪性概念的提出如此贴切而激进地与二十世纪初的各项科学革命呼应，这是一位哲学家对其时代的感知与思想交代；二是，波普尔在一战后至二战结束前构想的这套科学、历史、政治哲学是如此的自成一体、相互勾连，它们来自于一种完整的智识理想和追寻，既对知识的未来保持乐观，又对当时的现实危机有绝对的警醒。这无论如何都令人肃然起敬，也让任何后世的质疑和推翻变得微不足道，毕竟他自己的科学哲学就是向证伪开放的，也让我明白他对一些学术前辈为何如此重要。 (展开)
0 有用 叫什么好呢 2022-01-18 12:07:44
Science always attempts to be disconfirmed/ falsified while pseudoscience struggles to be confirmed.
0 有用 felsina 2023-08-17 20:44:49 加拿大
时间和行文技术性的关系没有通篇细读，但我想这本书动人之处有二。一是可证伪性概念的提出如此贴切而激进地与二十世纪初的各项科学革命呼应，这是一位哲学家对其时代的感知与思想交代；二是，波普尔在一战后至二战结束前构想的这套科学、历史、政治哲学是如此的自成一体、相互勾连，它们来自于一种完整的智识理想和追寻，既对知识的未来保持乐观，又对当时的现实危机有绝对的警醒。这无论如何都令人肃然起敬，也让任何后世的质疑和... 时间和行文技术性的关系没有通篇细读，但我想这本书动人之处有二。一是可证伪性概念的提出如此贴切而激进地与二十世纪初的各项科学革命呼应，这是一位哲学家对其时代的感知与思想交代；二是，波普尔在一战后至二战结束前构想的这套科学、历史、政治哲学是如此的自成一体、相互勾连，它们来自于一种完整的智识理想和追寻，既对知识的未来保持乐观，又对当时的现实危机有绝对的警醒。这无论如何都令人肃然起敬，也让任何后世的质疑和推翻变得微不足道，毕竟他自己的科学哲学就是向证伪开放的，也让我明白他对一些学术前辈为何如此重要。 (展开)
0 有用 momo💐 2023-01-12 21:25:03 河北
Thank god. Finished.
0 有用 酷酷功仔 2022-09-08 09:48:00 上海
Science pursues the illusory aim of making its answers final. Its advance is, rather, toward discovering new, deeper, and more general problems, and of subjecting our ever tentative answers to ever re... Science pursues the illusory aim of making its answers final. Its advance is, rather, toward discovering new, deeper, and more general problems, and of subjecting our ever tentative answers to ever renewed and more rigorous tests. (展开)
0 有用 叫什么好呢 2022-01-18 12:07:44
Science always attempts to be disconfirmed/ falsified while pseudoscience struggles to be confirmed.
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)