Objective Knowledge
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Objective Knowledge
| Full title | Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach |
|---|---|
| Author | Karl Popper |
| Published | 1972 |
| Pages | 389 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Popper’s papers setting out an evolutionary epistemology: knowledge grows by conjecture and error-elimination, the same logic by which organisms adapt, and what matters is the objective content of theories and the criticism they survive, not the knower’s state of mind. It contains the “third world” argument, the attack on the bucket theory of mind, and his case that the problem of induction is dissolved rather than solved. |
Objective Knowledge
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — marked on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, in Science, Technology, and Epistemology, the curriculum’s account of how knowledge is actually produced, March 2026. Full list: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Karl Popper — the author.
- Epistemology — the field this reframes evolutionarily.
- Knowledge — objective knowledge as something with a life of its own.
- Falsifiability — Popper’s criterion, argued here against induction.
- Evolution — the mechanism he takes knowledge growth to share.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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