Karl Popper Educational Institutions Philosophy Science Academia Universities HC

Description: Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth:Our Universities and the Wealth of the NationBy William Warren Bartley IIIPublished by Open Court Publishing Company, 1990. First Printing, First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some pencil notes to text and endpapers. Index, 315 pages. William Warren Bartley (1934-1990) finished "Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth: On Universities and the Wealth of Nations" in the last year of his life. He had been a student of and collaborator with Karl Popper and to his great credit assisted Popper in tidying up and publishing the three volumes of The Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery in 1982/83 after a delay of a quarter of a century. He also, along with Gerard Radnitzky, edited "Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge" 1987.This is a brilliant effort to diagnose the limits that fashion and habit place on the productivity of our educational institutions. It is not only this however for there are deep insights throughout the book that can help improve the condition. His account of Karl Popper's ideas and their reception in academia is core. Bartley is uniquely qualified for this exercise for he understood that Popper could be a difficult man, their communication fell flat for some twelve years from 1965 but their renewed collaboration was productive for each of them and has left a legacy that is rich indeed for those who can make the effort to understand it.For those with an interest in the history of the philosophy of science, Bartley's inside knowledge of Imre Lakatos may be an eye opener. He points out that Lakatos took over the privately circulated accounts by Popper, Agassi and Watkins of "metaphysical research programs", built the more marketable "scientific research programs" and thereby achieved great fame. Popper had an aversion to essentialism, to spending needless energy analysing the meaning of words, Bartley says with some irony "What Popper meant of course is that words shouldn't matter. But Lakatos knew better than to moralise." Loc: C5StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackKarl Popper Educational Institutions Philosophy Science Academia Universities HC Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth:Our Universities and the Wealth of the NationBy William Warren Bartley IIIPublished by Open Court Publishing Company, 1990. First Printing, First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some pencil notes to text and endpapers. Index, 315 pages. William Warren Bartley (1934-1990) finished "Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth: On Universities and the Wealth of Nations" in the last year of his life. He had been a student of and collaborator with Karl Popper and to his great credit assisted Popper in tidying up and publishing the three volumes of The Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery in 1982/83 after a delay of a quarter of a century. He also, along with Gerard Radnitzky, edited "Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge" 1987.This is a brilliant effort to diagnose the limits that fashion and habit place on the productivity of our educational institutions. It is not only this however for there are deep insights throughout the book that can help improve the condition. His account of Karl Popper's ideas and their reception in academia is core. Bartley is uniquely qualified for this exercise for he understood that Popper could be a difficult man, their communication fell flat for some twelve years from 1965 but their renewed collaboration was productive for each of them and has left a legacy that is rich indeed for those who can make the effort to understand it.For those with an interest in the history of the philosophy of science, Bartley's inside knowledge of Imre Lakatos may be an eye opener. He points out that Lakatos took over the privately circulated accounts by Popper, Agassi and Watkins of "metaphysical research programs", built the more marketable "scientific research programs" and thereby achieved great fame. Popper had an aversion to essentialism, to spending needless energy analysing the meaning of words, Bartley says with some irony "What Popper meant of course is that words shouldn't matter. But Lakatos knew better than to moralise." Loc: C5

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