Sir Karl Raimund Popper Papers, 1928-1995
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8c60064j No online items Register of the Sir Karl Raimund Popper Papers, 1928-1995 Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution staff and David Jacobs Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, CA, 94305-6010 (650) 723-3563 © 1998 Register of the Sir Karl Raimund 86039 1 Popper Papers, 1928-1995 Title: Sir Karl Raimund Popper papers Collection Number: 86039 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: In English Date (inclusive): 1928-1995 Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, phonotapes, phonorecords, and photographs, relating to philosophy, the nature of knowledge, the philosophy of culture, the philosophy and methodology of science, and the philosophy of history and the social sciences. Deacribed in two groups, original collection (boxes 1-463) and the incremental materials acquired at a later date (boxes 464-583). Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives Collection Size: 575 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 2 card file boxes, 28 envelopes, 47 phonotape reels, 4 phonotape cassettes, 11 phonorecords (248 linear feet) Creator: Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902- Access The collection is open for research. Use copies of sound recordings are available for immediate use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1986 with increments added at a later date. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Alternative Form Available Collection available on microfilm. Original collection (473 reels) and Incremental materials (91 reels) Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Sir Karl R. Popper papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. 1902, July Born, Vienna, Austria 28 1926 Ph.D., University of Vienna 1930 Married Josefine Anne Henninger (1906-1985) 1934 Author, Logik der Forschung 1930-1935 Schoolteacher, Vienna 1937-1945 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Canterbury University College, University of New Zealand, Christchurch 1945 Author, The Open Society and Its Enemies 1945-1949 Reader in Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, England 1949-1969 Professor of Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London 1954 Author, Miseria dello storicismo 1962 Author, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge 1965 Knighted 1972 Author, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach 1976 Author, Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography 1977 Co-author (with John C. Eccles), The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism 1979 Author, Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie 1982-1983 Author, Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery 1983 Author, A Pocket Popper 1984 Author, Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt 1986- Head, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut fur Wissenschaftstheorie, Vienna Scope and Content Note Register of the Sir Karl Raimund 86039 2 Popper Papers, 1928-1995 Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, phonotapes, phonorecords, and photographs, relating to philosophy, the nature of knowledge, the philosophy of culture, the philosophy and methodology of science, and the philosophy of history and the social sciences. Most of collection also available on microfilm (564 reels). Sound use copies of sound recordings available. Subjects and Indexing Terms Civilization--Philosophy. Conservatism. History--Philosophy. Knowledge, Theory of. Philosophers. Philosophy. Phonorecords. Phonotapes. Science--Methodology. Science--Philosophy. Social sciences--Philosophy. SPEECHES AND WRITINGS I, 1928-1986 Scope and Contents note Conference papers, drafts of books, essays, notes, reviews, speeches, and related correspondence, arranged chronologically Unidentified writings, n.d. Folder 1, General Folder 1-6 Folder 2, General Folder 1-15 Folder 16-24 Fragments Folder 3, Fragments Folder 1-36 Folder 459, Fragments Folder 1-2 Folder 3, Miscellaneous pages Folder 37 Folder 4, Folder 1 "An Alternative Proof that Probability Is Now Ampliative," Holograph n.d. Folder 2 "Animal Alphabet," Holograph and typescript n.d. Folder 3 "The Arrow of Time," Typescript of chapter for a book n.d. Folder 4 "Axiom Definition," Holograph n.d. Folder 5 "An Axiom System for Intuitionist Probability," Holograph n.d. Folder 6 "Axiome, Definitionen, und Postulate der Geometrie," Typescript (2 bound volumes) n.d. Folder 7 "Bemerkung zum komplementaritatsproblem der Quantenmechanik," Typescript n.d. Folder 8 "Bemerkungen uber Sprachtheorie und ihre Geschichte," Holograph n.d. Folder 9 "Bemerkungen zum sogenannten Problem der Willensfreiheit," Typescript n.d. Folder 10 "Bleen is Projectible," Holograph n.d. Folder 11 "Bohr Copenhagen Interpretation," Typescript outline n.d. Folder 12 "Boole's Philosophy of Logic," Typescript n.d. Folder 13 "C-Axiom System," Holograph n.d. Folder 14 "Can There Be a Quantum Logic?" Holograph n.d. Folder 15 "Cardinal Numbers in New Foundation," Holograph n.d. Folder 16 "Causal Completeness," Holograph n.d. Folder 17 "Causality," Holograph n.d. Register of the Sir Karl Raimund 86039 3 Popper Papers, 1928-1995 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS I, 1928-1986 Folder 18 "Clouds, Clocks, and Organisms: An Essay on Causation and Propensity," Holograph outline n.d. Folder 19 "Comments on Quantum Mechanics," Typescript n.d. Folder 20 "The Construction of Shortest Random-Like Sequences of Degree n" (with L. R. B. Elton), Typescript n.d. Folder 21 "A Contradiction Between Special Relativity and the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics," Holograph n.d. Folder 22 "A Conversation between Karl R. Popper and Jean-Pierre Vigier," Typescript n.d. Folder 23 "Counterexamples to a Proof of Clauser and Horne" (with Thomas D. Angelidis), Typescript n.d. Folder 24 "Determinism and Indeterminism," Holograph outline n.d. Folder 25 "Dismembering (Dismantling) the Philosophy of Meaning," Holograph outline and notes n.d. Folder 26 "Do Ampliative Probabilistic Inferences Exist?" Holograph n.d. Folder 27 "The End of Materialism," Holograph outline n.d. Essay volumes, (apparently Projected compilations of selected writings n.d. 1970s and 1980s). Folder 5, Folder 1 General Untitled volumes Folder 2 Preface; Science: Problems, Aims, Responsibilities; Optimist, Pessimist, and Pragmatist Views of Human Knowledge; Physics and Philosophy; Plato; Historical Explanation Folder 3 The Bucket and the Searchlight; In Search of Enlightenment; The Status of Science; A Note on the Theory of the Cold War; The Open Society and the Democratic State Folder 4 Evolutionary Epistemology Scope and Content Note Includes letter from Gunter Wachtershauser); On the Nutritive Origin of Vision; Remarks on 'Place of Mind in Nature'; The Place of Mind in Nature Folder 5 The Influence of Einstein on My View of Science; Julius Kraft; A Brief Remark on the Theory of the Cold War; A Political Postscript on the Central Problem of the Cold War; The Open Society and the Democratic State Folder 6 Of Clouds and Clocks; A Realist View of Logic, Physics, and History; Evolution and the Tree of Knowledge; Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject; On the Theory of the Objective Mind; Professor Popper's Seminar On Seeing Red, ; The Myth of the Framework; Models, Instruments, and Truth 1969 January 7 Folder 7 A Paradox of Zero Information; Extract from Logic without Assumptions; On the Status and the Methods of Science; The Open Society and the Democratic State "Einstein" Folder 8 Holograph outline and notes Folder 9 Typescript miscellaneous pages Folder 10 "Four Essays on Social Philosophy." Notes "How I See Philosophy" Folder 6, Folder 1 How I See Philosophy Folder 2 Indeterminism Is not Enough Folder 3 Einstein's Influence on My View of Science Folder 4 The Status of Science: A Broadcast to Russia Folder 5 Science: Problems, Aims, Responsibilities; Epistemology and Industrialization; Emancipation Through Knowledge Folder 6 Creative Self-Criticism in Science and in Art Register of the Sir Karl Raimund 86039 4 Popper Papers, 1928-1995 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS I, 1928-1986 "In Search of Enlightenment: Essays in the Philosophy of Science and of Politics." Preface; Science: Problems, Aims, Responsibilities; Optimist, Pessimist, and Pragmatist Views of Scientific Knowledge; Physics and Philosophy; The Bucket and the Searchlight; In Search of Enlightenment; The Status of Science; A Note on the Cold War; The Open Society and the Democratic State; Einstein's Influence on My View of Science; Julius Kraft, ; Epistemology and Industrialization; Historical Explanation: An Interview; Models, Instruments, and Truth: The Rationality Principle in the Social Sciences 1898-1960 Folder 7 General Folder 8 Typescript "Lady Popper's Essay Volume" Folder 9 Philosophy and Physics Folder 10 The Revolution in Our Idea of Knowledge "The Myth of the Framework" (also entitled "Emancipation through Knowledge" and "On History and Society") General Folder 7, Folder 1 Notes and table of contents Folder 2 Correspondence Folder 3 Working copy Folder 4-5 Emancipation through Knowledge Folder 6-8 The Myth of the Framework Folder 8, The