Book contents
- Karl Popper
- Talking Philosophy
- Karl Popper
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Popper, Science and Rationality
- 2 Popper and Reliabilism
- 3 The Problem of the Empirical Basis
- 4 ‘Revolution in Permanence’: Popper on Theory-Change in Science
- 5 Popper’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Probability
- 6 Propensities and Indeterminism
- 7 Popper on Determinism
- 8 Popper and the Quantum Theory
- 9 The Uses of Karl Popper
- 10 Popper and Darwinism
- 11 Popper and the Scepticism of Evolutionary Epistemology, or, What Were Human Beings Made For?
- 12 Does Popper Explain Historical Explanation?
- 13 The Grounds for Anti-Historicism
- 14 What Use is Popper to a Politician?
- Works of Karl Popper Referred to in the Text
- Index
14 - What Use is Popper to a Politician?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2024
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Book contents
- Karl Popper
- Talking Philosophy
- Karl Popper
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Popper, Science and Rationality
- 2 Popper and Reliabilism
- 3 The Problem of the Empirical Basis
- 4 ‘Revolution in Permanence’: Popper on Theory-Change in Science
- 5 Popper’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Probability
- 6 Propensities and Indeterminism
- 7 Popper on Determinism
- 8 Popper and the Quantum Theory
- 9 The Uses of Karl Popper
- 10 Popper and Darwinism
- 11 Popper and the Scepticism of Evolutionary Epistemology, or, What Were Human Beings Made For?
- 12 Does Popper Explain Historical Explanation?
- 13 The Grounds for Anti-Historicism
- 14 What Use is Popper to a Politician?
- Works of Karl Popper Referred to in the Text
- Index
Summary
Some years acquire symbolic status, and one such year is 1968. All over Europe and the United States university students exploded into violent rebellion. Insofar as this would-be revolution had an ideology it was unquestionably Marx-inspired, even if the Marxism was not always orthodox. It so happens that in the years 1970–1971 I was teaching philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. And because of Oxford University’s system, almost unique, of individual tuition for undergraduates, this meant I found myself in a continuing one-to-one relationship with bright students who were in the throes of revolutionary fervour.
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- Karl Popper , pp. 411 - 434Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024