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Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life : Including Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986 and Three Related Texts

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014

Online-Ressource (166 p)

Englisch

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I. Karl Popper, Hunstanton Windmill, and the Beginnings of Molecular Biology; 1. The Old and the New Secrets of Life; 2. Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986; 3. In Search of a Better World: Popper in England 1935/1936; 4. The Old Windmill at Hunstanton and Popper's Path into Biology; 5. The 1936 Meeting of the Theoretical Biology Club; 6. The Biologists of the Club; Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981); John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971); Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994); Dorothy Wrinch (1894-1976); John B. S. Haldane (1882-1964); Berthold (Berti) Wiesner (1901-1972)

Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975)Lancelot L. Whyte (1896-1972); Joseph Needham (1900-1995); 7. Hunstanton Windmill after 1956: Myer Head Salaman; Chapter II. All Organisms Influence Their Own Evolution; 8. Writing the Medawar Lecture in the Turbulent Year of 1986; 9. The March Lecture: 'An Advanced Development of Darwin's Theory'; 10. The April Lecture on Evolutionary Epistemology ; 11. Popper's Medawar Lecture at the Royal Society London; 12. The Long Road to Getting the Medawar Lecture Published ; 13. The Clash with Nobel Prize Winner Max Perutz; 14. 'Based on' versus 'Explained by'

15. Emergence: Inventions without an Inventor16. A Silent Jubilee: Fifty Years of Thinking about Life and Evolution; Chapter III. Two New Secrets of Life: The Origin of Knowledge and Activity; 17. Do Plants Have Knowledge?; 18. Popper's 'Lamarckism and DNA'; 19. The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology; 20. The Distinction between Knowledge and Information; 21. Crick's Central Dogma Unravelled; 22. The Fall of the Central Dogma; 23. The Second New Secret of Life: Will or 'Real Activity'; 24. Natural Selection Creates Nothing: Popper's Thought Experiment

25. In the Centre of Real Activity: Popper's GE-System26. The Chemical Origin of Real Activity; 27. Will as a Network of Propensities; 28. The Brutal Logic of Natural Selection Debrutalized; Appendix: Four Texts by Karl Popper; A. Karl Raimund Popper: A New Interpretation of Darwinism. The First Medawar Lecture (1986); Editorial Remarks; B. Karl Popper: 'Lamarckism and DNA' (1973); Further comments; C. Karl Popper: 'A World without Natural Selection but with Problem Solving' ; D. Karl Popper: 'Letter to a Friend' (1989); I. The present view; II. Putting nucleic acids into their place!

[Postscript 23 December 1989]Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index of Names; Index of Subjects

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Progress -- Philosophy ; Progress -- Moral and ethical aspects

The story of how humans and all living things came into existence is told in two widely believed versions: the Book of Genesis and Darwin's Origin of Species . It was the philosopher Karl Popper who presented us with a third story, no less important. His New Interpretation of Darwinism denies the creative power of blind chance and natural selection and establishes knowledge and activity of all living beings as the real driving forces of evolution. Thus, spiritual elements are back in the theory of evolution, and in Popper's view "the entire evolution is an adventure of the mind."In this