卡尔·波普尔爵士虽已年近九旬,却笔耕不辍。他最近出版的《倾向的世界》一书,篇幅不长,仅包括两篇新的演讲:作为此书标题的一篇是作者递交给1988年世界哲学大会的演讲;另一篇是《建立知识进化论》(Towards an Evolutionary Theoryof Knowledge),是1989年作者在伦敦经济学院校友会上发表的演讲。在这两篇演讲中,作者力图对自己过去60多年来问世的论著中哲学思想进行延伸和概括。尽管演讲某些地方有点专业化,但由于 Although Sir Karl Popper has nearly ninety years, but penmanship. His recently published book, Tendencies, is not long and includes only two new speeches: one of the titles of the book is a lecture delivered by the author to the 1988 World Philosophy Assembly; the other is “Building Knowledge Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge, ”is a 1989 lecture by the authors at the London School of Economics Alumni Association. In these two speeches, the author tries to extend and summarize the philosophical thoughts in his works that have been published for over 60 years. Although some of the speeches are somewhat specialized, they are due to