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The Significance of Popper's Thought Proceedings of the Conference
Karl Popper: 1902-1994. March 10-12, 1995, Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw.
Stefan Amsterdamski, editor
Rodopi, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1996, 97 pp.
What is the importance of Karl Popper's work for psychiatrists? Popper is best known as a philosopher of science. He held that a theory, to be scientific, must be falsifiable. He found logical positivism inadequate.
Popper's theory of the three worlds cuts across materialism and idealism and is an important contribution to the theory of mind. Popper asks us to perform two thought experiments: Firstly, imagine that all the machinery and tools in the world, as well as all human knowledge on how to make and use...