OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE: An Evolutionary Approach.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark grey cloth, with copper titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with creasing to the lower corner of one page due to a production fault, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, which is mildly faded to the spine and is otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£4.50 to the front flap).

'Objective Knowledge' collects ten essays by Karl R. Popper, many revised and expanded in this volume. Comprising, 'Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction', 'Two Faces of Common Sense: An Argument for Commonsense Realism and Against the Commonsense Theory of Knowledge', 'Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject', 'On The Theory of the Objective Mind', 'The Aim of Science', 'Of Clouds and Clocks', 'Evolution and the Tree of Knowledge', 'A Realist View of Logic, Physics, and History', 'Philosophical Comments on Tarski's Theory of Truth' and an Appendix 'The Bucket and The Searchlight: Two Theories of Knowledge'. "In the past, the theory of human knowledge has been mainly subjectivist: even scientific knowledge was regarded as a special kind of human belief, a particularly well founded kind. The author breaks with this tradition: a realist and fallibilist, he regards scientific knowledge, stated in human language, as no longer part of ourselves, but as exposed to objective criticism, which acts as a bridle and as a spur. Scientific knowledge grows through critical selection" (publisher's blurb).