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anewbeginning
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| Posted 2/2/2003 9:50 AM (GMT -6) |   | Are any of his books worth purchasing? I was considering buying "The Open Universe:An Argument for Indeterminism". Thought maybe someone here has read it.
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 2/3/2003 11:23 PM (GMT -6) | | I've read quite a bit from Popper in years past. He is widely regarded as one of the most lucid, creative and broad thinkers in the philosophy of science. I find him very insightful, especially in the area of epistemology. DEFINITELY get this book.
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Alan Rhoda
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| Posted 2/4/2003 10:44 AM (GMT -6) | | I haven't read the book you mention, but Popper is a stimulating thinker. The books of his that I've read are "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" and "Objective Knowledge". Both are worth reading, though I think his exclusively falsificationist approach to science is inadequate.
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anewbeginning
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| Posted 2/4/2003 12:58 PM (GMT -6) | | Thanks for the insights, guys. I plan to order some of his works.
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SeanG
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| Posted 2/5/2003 6:10 PM (GMT -6) | | The only series I read by him was The Open Society & Its Enemies (National Review recently ranked the book number six on its list of the hundred most important nonfiction works of the century). I have also read a few articles from him… especially the ones that criticized natural selection. A good bio can be found at:
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/001/turner.html
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