Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise of Evolutionary Epistemology
Hark, Michel Ter
This 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. By arguing that Popper’, s famo...