Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life

Including Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986 and Three Related Texts

by Hans-Joachim Niemann

Book cover: Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life

Extent: 164 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Earth & Life Sciences , Philosophy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2014)

ISBN: 9783161532078

6.06 x 9.06 inches

Price: $68.00

In stock

Add to cart

Synopsis
Contributing Authors

Karl Popper’s lecture A New Interpretation of Darwinism given at the Royal Society London in 1986 is here printed for the first time in the original. In it, Popper denies the creative power of blind chance and natural selection. Instead of these two Darwinian dogmas he establishes knowledge and activity of all organisms as the creative driving forces of evolution. Hans-Joachim Niemann unearths biographical details about the year 1936 when Popper’s biological thoughts were inspired by a meeting with some scientists of the avant-garde of molecular biology. He then focusses on the year 1986 when Popper, in several lectures, summarized the results of his life-long biological thinking. After that Niemann discusses Popper’s philosophy of biology in the light of new results of molecular biology that apparently supports his endeavour to overcome some gloomy aspects of Darwinism. How the new creative forces knowledge and activity came into existence is still a secret and a worthwhile research programme.

By (author) Hans-Joachim Niemann

Similar Books

Bias and the Middle Way

How to stop Absolutizing our Conditioned Assumptions

By (author) Robert M. Ellis

Chuck, Appearance and Reality

Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy

By (author) Kelly Dean Jolley

Defining Comedy

Reflections on the Usual Suspects

By (author) David Ellis

Ecological Conversion and the Murray River

Towards a Changed Relation with a Great River System

By (author) Emmanuel D. Bautista

Fifty Years of Insight

Bernard Lonergan's Contribution to Theology and Philosophy

edited by Neil Ormerod, Robin Koning and David Braithwaite

Global Legal Pluralism and Rights of Nature

Volume 151

Edited by Daniel Bonilla Maldonado Edited by Ralf Michaels

Gravity

Life's Ups and Downs

By (author) David Howe

Naming Pathology from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Volume 20

edited by Alessandra Foscati and Michele Goyens

On Human Ambiguity

Writings on Religion and Subjectivity

By (author) Arne Grøn Edited by William Mathorne Edited by Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen

Sextus Empiricus on Fallacies and Expert Knowledge

by Johanna Helene Schmitt

Speculative Cartographies

Material Ecopoetics and Weird Mappings

Volume 9

By (author) Grzegorz Czemiel

Tabule Resolute

The Central European Type of Alfonsine Tables

Volume 4

By (author) Petr Hadrava By (author) Alena Hadravová

Theologia modernorum

Research on Robert Holcot's Theological Questions

Volume 9

Edited by Pascale Bermon Edited by Christophe Grellard Edited by Pascale Bermon

Transitive Media [Philosophy]

Think(er)ing Technologies in Real-Time

By (author) Wolfgang Ernst

Zoo Quest for a Dragon

By (author) David Attenborough

Zoo Quest to Guyana

By (author) David Attenborough

Das unersetzbare Selbst

Der Mensch im Zeitalter der Kunstlichen Intelligenz

by Emil Angehrn

Hermeneutisches Wissen

Essays nach Gadamer

By (author) Tobias Keiling

Jan Schröder: Recht als Wissenschaft

Ein Kommentar

Edited by Marietta Auer Edited by Ralf Seinecke Edited by Stefan Vogenauer

Natürliche Theologie

Beiträge zu ihrer Problemgeschichte und zur Frage ihrer gegenwärtigen Relevanz

Edited by Markus Höfner Edited by Matthias D. Wüthrich

Seiltanzer

Reflexionen uber eine Daseinsmetapher

by Gunnar Schmidt

Sitten zwischen Moralphilosophie und Politischer Okonomie am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts

Mit einer zweisprachigen Edition von Ludwig Heinrich Jakobs Preisschrift Quelles sont les institutions les plus propres a fonder la morale d'un peuple

by Sonja Asal

Teologia Politica – Politische Theologie

Volume 25

By (author) Merio Scattola Edited by Luise Schorn-Schütte Translated by Antonio Staude Translated by Francesca…

„Our house is on fire“

Theater / Drama / Theatertext und Klimakrise

Volume 5

Volume editor Andreas Englhart Volume editor Artur Pelka Volume editor Hannah von Sass

Ἀρχή and origo

The Power of Origins

Volume 13

Edited by Anke Walter Edited by Athanassios Vergados

A Communication Ethic of Dialogic Reformation

Nicholas of Cusa on Care for Communities in Crisis

Volume 106

by Michael R. Kearney

A Rational Faith

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Richard Swinburne

by Joshua Sijuwade

A Rational Faith

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Richard Swinburne

by Joshua Sijuwade

Ambiguum 10 of Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study

Papers collected on the Occasion of the Budapest Colloquium on Saint Maximus, 3-4 February 2021

Volume 97

Edited by Alexis Leonas Edited by Vladimir Cvetkovic

Archaeology of Irrigation Technology and Water Management in the Islamic World

Proceedings of the Bahrain Conference, January 2024

Edited by Timothy Insoll Edited by Rachel Maclean Edited by Salman Almahari

Architecture Is Construction

Global Award for Sustainable Architecture

By (author) Marie-Hélène Contal By (author) Jana Revedin By (author) Marta Maccaglia

Care in an Era of New Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

Relationships in a Connected World

Volume 14

By (author) V. Nurock

Community in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy

Volume 1

Edited by Stefano Marchesoni Edited by Nassima Sahraoui Edited by Sebastian Truskolaski

Creation Concepts and Creation Care

Perspectives from Early Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics XVII

Edited by Ruben Zimmermann Edited by Zacharias Shoukry Edited by Mirjam Jekel