All Life is Problem Solving
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This article is devoted to the book All Life is Problem Solving by Karl R. Popper, which is a translation by Patrick Camiller from the German original Alles Leben ist Problemlösen. It is to contain table of contents as a minimum useful artifact. It can be further expanded with description of the book as well as critical review.
Table of contents
[edit | edit source]Table of contents per Routlege:
- Publisher's note Preface
- PART I Questions of natural science
- 1. The logic and evolution of scientific theory (1972)
- 2. Notes of a realist on the body-mind problem (1972)
- 3. Epistemology and the problem of peace (1985)
- 4. The epistemological position of evolutionary epistemology (1986)
- 5. Towards an evolutionary theory of knowledge (1989)
- 6. Kepler's metaphysics of the solar system and his empirical criticism (1986/91)
- PART II Thoughts on history and politics
- 7. On freedom (1958/67)
- 8. On the theory of democracy (1987)
- 9. All life is problem solving (1991)
- 10. Against the cynical interpretation of history (1991)
- 11. 'Waging wars for peace' (1992)
- 12. The collapse of communism: understanding the past and influencing the future (1992)
- 13. The necessity of peace (1993)
- 14. Masaryk and the open society (1994)
- 15. How I became a philosopher without trying (1992)
- Subject index
- Name index
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- All Life is Problem Solving, routledge.com
- BookNotes: All Life Is Problem Solving, robnagler.com -- contains snippets from the book
- »Kriege führen für den Frieden«, spiegel.de -- a Spiegel article in German that appears as one of the chapters