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Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA [4] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British [5] philosopher, academic and social commentator.
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Karl Popper, né le 28 juillet 1902 à Vienne en Autriche et...
- Inductivist
Inductivism is the traditional and still commonplace...
- The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a work on political...
- The Poverty of Historicism
The Poverty of Historicism is a 1944 book by the philosopher...
- Popper's three worlds
Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at reality,...
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the...
- Kuhn–Popper debate
The Kuhn-Popper debate was a debate surrounding research...
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Karl Popper was born in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to middle-class parents of Jewish origins, both of whom had converted to Christianity. Popper received a Lutheran upbringing and was educated at the University of Vienna.His father had 12,000–14,000 volumes in his personal library. In 1919, he became attracted to Marxism. He joined th...
Popper, brought up in Vienna, was well aware of the Vienna Circle. That school of logical positivism, led by Moritz Schlick, defined knowledge (especially scientific knowledge) as being propositions which could be verified. Popper thought this was quite wrong. In his opinion, science grew indirectly, by wrong ideas being falsified. This he worked u...
Popper's work on political philosophy is also of great importance. Marxclaimed knowledge of an historical process, where societies evolved from one state to another, until they reached a final state. This type of thought is known as 'historicism'. Popper argued that the growth of human knowledge partly causes the evolution of human history. Since "...
The Three Worlds Doctrine was invented by Popper and is used in philosophy to understand the condition in which we find ourselves as human beings. It assumes the existence of three worlds. They are 1. The outside world, which we know and understand with our senses. 1. The world of consciousness, which we experience as our inner thoughts and dreams ...
The logic of scientific discovery, 1934 (as Logik der Forschung, English translation 1959), ISBN 0-415-27844-9The poverty of historicism, 1936 (private reading at a meeting in Brussels, 1944/45 as a series of journal articles in Econometrica, 1957 as a book), ISBN 0-415-06569-0The open society and its enemies, 1945 Vol 1 The spell of Plato. ISBN 0-415-29063-5, Vol 2 The high tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the aftermath. ISBN 0-415-29063-5Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge, 1963, ISBN 0-415-04318-2Discussion of Popper's Life and Work Archived 2008-04-14 at the Wayback Machine from Philosophy Talk Radio ProgramKarl Popper from Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Karl Popper Web Archived 2007-12-03 at the Wayback MachineKarl Popper Institute Archived 2008-03-11 at the Wayback Machineincludes complete bibliography 1925-1999- 20th century philosophy
Nov 13, 1997 · Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century. He was also a social and political philosopher of considerable stature, a self-professed critical-rationalist, a dedicated opponent of all forms of scepticism and relativism in science and in human affairs generally and a committed ...
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification.
