The Cambridge Companion to Popper

Jeremy Shearmur is Emeritus Fellow at the Australian National University. He studied at the London School of Economics with Popper, Watkins and Lakatos, and subsequently worked with Popper as his assistant for eight years. He taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, political theory at the University of Manchester, and subsequently both subjects at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper, and is coeditor of Popper's After the Open Society. Geoffrey Stokes is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) in the College of Business at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is the author of Popper: Philosophy, Politics and Scientific Method (1998). He has been a senior editor (2010–16) of the Australian Journal of Political Science. From 1994–9 he was the editor (politics) for the Australian Journal of Politics and History. In 1985–6 he held a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Philosophy and the History of Science at Boston University.

'… the essays provide solid, insightful, indeed exemplary assessments of fundamental themes in Popper's thought …' CHOICE

• 1. Popper and his philosophy: an overview Jeremy Shearmur and Geoffrey Stokes; 2. The young Popper, 1902–37: history, politics and philosophy in interwar Vienna Malachi Hacohen; 3. On Popper's contributions to psychology as part of biology Arne Petersen; 4. Popper's philosophy of science: looking ahead Peter Godfrey-Smith; 5. The problem of the empirical basis in critical rationalism Gunnar Andersson; 6. Karl Popper's evolutionary philosophy Michael Bradie; 7. Popper's paradoxical pursuit of natural philosophy Nicholas Maxwell; 8. Metaphysics and realism Alan Musgrave; 9. Popper's contributions to the theory of probability and its interpretation David Miller; 10. Popper's philosophy of mind Frank Jackson; 11. Popper's philosophy and the methodology of social science Ian Jarvie; 12. Popper and Habermas: convergent arguments for a postmetaphysical universalism Geoffrey Stokes; 13. Popper's politics and political thought Jeremy Shearmur.