"First published as an 'Autobiography of Karl Popper' in The philosophy of Karl Popper in The library of living philosophers, ed. Paul Arthur Schlipp, by the Open Court Publishing Co., Illinois, 1974"--T.p. verso.

Omniscience and fallibility --;
Childhood memories --;
Early influences --;
The First World War --;
An early philosophic problem: infinity --;
An early philosophical failure: the problem of essentialism --;
A long digression concerning essentialism: what still divides me from most contemporary philosophers --;
A crucial year: Marxism; science and pseudoscience --;
Early studies --;
A second digression: dogmatic and critical thinking; learning without induction --;
Music --;
Speculations about the rise of polyphonic music: psychology of discovery or logic of discovery? --;
Two kinds of music --;
Progressivism in art, especially in music --;
Last years at the university --;
Theory of knowledge: Logic der Forschung --;
Who killed logical positivism? --;
Realism and quantum theory --;
Objectivity and physics --;
Truth; probability; corroboration --;
The approaching war; the Jewish problem --;
Emigration: England and New Zealand --;
Early work in New Zealand --;
The open society and The poverty of historicism. Other work in New Zealand --;
England: at the London School of Economics and Political Science --;
Early work in England --;
First visit to the United States. Meeting Einstein --;
Problems and theories --;
Debates with SchrödInger --;
Objectivity and criticism --;
Induction; deduction; objective truth --;
Metaphysical research programmes --;
Fighting subjectivism in physics: quantum mechanics and propensity --;
Boltzmann and the arrow of time --;
The subjectivist theory of entropy --;
Darwinism as a metaphysical research programme --;
World 3 or the third world --;
The body-mind problem and world 3 --;
The place of values in a world of facts.