by Karl R. Popper · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449307461
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The World of Parmenides is a collection of essays by the renowned philosopher Karl Popper, exploring ancient Greek philosophy, focusing on Parmenides and the Presocratic Enlightenment. Popper examines history from a perspective of problematic situations, offering a new understanding of past thinkers. This book, compiled by Arne F. Petersen and Jorgen Mejer, highlights Popper's concern for Presocratic philosophy and its impact on Western thought. It includes unpublished writings and sheds light on the complexity of ancient Greek thought.
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism.
