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“Good translating is very hard work”

2021

Abstract Upon immigrating to New Zealand in 1937, Austrian-born philosopher of science Karl Raimund Popper lived and worked in the English-speaking world, where he published his major works in English. Life events forced him to engage in various forms of self-translation around the same time that he began earnestly working on translating Presocratic philosophical fragments into English. While he rejected language wholesale as an object of philosophical reflection, translation became an exception, a privileged occasion for philosophical reflection on language. This article reads Popper’s thoughts on translation in the context of previously unpublished correspondence between Popper and potent…

Alcune considerazioni sulla conversazione di Popper con “Parmenide”

Although Popper contributed significantly to the doctrinal recovery of the so-called second part of the Parmenidean poem, his overall interpretation of Parmenides' thought nevertheless strengthened the traditional thesis that sees Parmenides as the father of metaphysics. It is quite well known, in fact, that Popper assimilated the Parmenidean doctrine of being to Einstein's theory of relativity, combining them both under the "label" of "Methaphysical Determinism". It is also known that Popper says he spoke directly with Einstein about this interpretative hypothesis - in a conversation in which he would have called him, precisely, "Parmenides" - and that the scientist had agreed enough with …

Idealismo y filosofía de la ciencia : introducción a la epistemología de Karl R. Popper [Ressenya]

1973

Reseña del libro de Miguel A. Quintanilla Idealismo y filosofía de la ciencia: introducción a la epistemología de Karl R. Popper, Madrid, Tecnos, 1972.