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Popper, Philosophy and Faith

Popper, Philosophy and Faith
  • Anthony O'Hear
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    June 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2025
  • This Element aims to make good an imbalance in scholarly work on the thought of Karl Popper. Towards the end of his life he developed a dualistic view of the self, and connected to it, a model of reality consisting of three worlds: first the inorganic world; a second level domain of consciousness; and a third world of ideas, institutions and concepts. This third world develops beyond the ideas and understanding of its human inventors. The implications of these later developments has not been fully considered, nor has his idea that his critical rationalism rests on an irrational faith. These are considered against the context of his more famous work on science and the open society. Popper saw his late work in quasi-Platonic terms, and the similarities and differences here are explored. Does Popper's work as a whole tend in an unfulfiled Platonic direction or need a religious foundation?

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Anthony O'Hear, University of Buckingham
  • Book:
    Karl Popper
    Published online:
    25 April 2024
    Print publication:
    02 May 2024, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    This collection of essays on the work of Sir Karl Popper is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s annual lecture series given in London from October 1994 to March 1995. Popper himself died in August 1994, shortly before the start of the lectures. His death was the cause of sadness to all of those involved in the series. Some, indeed, had been close friends of Popper over many years, and others colleagues and acquaintances, some close, some more distant. Even those unacquainted with Popper personally spoke in their lectures of the profound intellectual stimulation they had received from the study of his works.

Karl Popper
  • Edited by Anthony O'Hear
  • Published online:
    25 April 2024
    Print publication:
    02 May 2024
  • Sir Karl Popper was a major thinker of the twentieth century, one who – as Anthony O'Hear writes in his new Foreword – 'has had a beneficent influence on those who have come under the spell of his thought and of the inimitable prose in which he articulates it'. It is now twenty-five years since Popper died, and thus seems – after a quarter of a century – an apposite moment to revaluate his impact, significance, and influence. The several chapters in this classic volume focus on many key elements of Popper's thought and philosophy. They are by no means uncritical, but afford Popper the respect due to a philosopher who wrote always with a degree of clarity, precision, and directness rare in the academic world of his time, and – as O'Hear puts it – 'even rarer subsequently'. This important book constitutes an essential introduction to some of the most esteemed philosophical writing of our times.

  • 3 - The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?

  • Edited by Michael McGhee, University of Liverpool
  • Book:
    Spiritual Life
    Published online:
    18 April 2024
    Print publication:
    25 April 2024, pp 74-93

  • Summary

    I will begin by considering some themes from Proust’s wonderful essay on Chardin, Chardin and Rembrandt (Proust, 1988). Proust speaks of the young man ‘of modest means and artistic taste’, his imagination filled with the splendour of museums, of cathedrals, of mountains, of the sea, sitting at table at the end of lunch, nauseated at the ‘traditional mundanity’ of the unaesthetic spectacle before him: the last knife left lying on the half turned-back table cloth, next to the remains of an underdone and tasteless cutlet. He cannot wait to get up and leave, and if he cannot take a train to Holland or Italy, he will at least go to the Louvre to have sight of the palaces of Veronese, the princes of van Dyck and the harbours of Claude. Doing this will, of course, make his return to his home and its familiar surroundings seem yet more drab and exasperating.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Anthony O'Hear, University of Buckingham
  • Foreword by Tim Crane, Central European University, Budapest
  • Book:
    The Philosophy of Mind
    Published online:
    19 May 2022
    Print publication:
    09 June 2022, pp 1-2

  • Summary

    The philosophy of mind is one of the most exciting and innovative areas in philosophy at the current time. Necessarily, much of the work in the area is highly specialized, but as a consequence it is not widely available or accessible. By bringing together some of the leading figures in the field, we hope in this volume to fill what is often perceived both inside and outside philosophy to be a gap. Contributors have attempted in their papers to give an idea of their current concerns, to indicate the directions in which their work is taking them, and to suggest how it relates to other issues both in the philosophy of mind and in philosophy generally.

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