Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology [Paperback]

This book is about Karl Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher.This groundbreaking book is about Karl Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that Popper's philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the psychology of Otto Selz, whose theory of problem solving and scientific discovery laid the foundation for much of contemporary cognitive psychology.This groundbreaking book is about Karl Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that Popper's philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the psychology of Otto Selz, whose theory of problem solving and scientific discovery laid the foundation for much of contemporary cognitive psychology.This book demonstrates that Karl Popper's philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the psychology of Otto Selz. Selz's theory of problem solving and scientific discovery laid the foundation for much of contemporary cognitive psychology. This original analysis covers Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher.List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Tracing the genesis of an idea; 2. Psychology of thinking, evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; 3. Popper and the foundations of pedagogy; 4. Otto Selz and the science of problem solving; 5. Popper's psychology of knowledge; 6. Evolutionary epistemology and the mind-body problem; Notes; Bibliography; Index.'It will be essential reading for scholars in the history of psychology, the history of philosophy, Popper studies and the philosophy of the social sciences.' Ian Jarvie, York University, Toronto'& a major contribution &' Learning for Democracy