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      • CROYDON, ENGLAND -- Sir Karl Popper, 92, a philosopher and prominent anti-Marxist whose views helped frame the ideals of Britain's conservative government in the 1980s, died Sept. 17 at a hospital in this London suburb. He had pneumonia, cancer and kidney failure.
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    Karl Popper was born in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to upper-middle-class parents. All of Popper's grandparents were assimilated Jews; the Popper family converted to Lutheranism before he was born [13] [14] and so he received a Lutheran baptism. [15] [16] His father, Simon Siegmund Carl Popper (1856-1932), was a lawyer from Bohemia ...

  3. Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to debates concerning general scientific methodology and theory choice, the demarcation of science from non-science, the nature of probability and quantum mechanics, and the methodology of the social sciences.

  4. Jan 30, 2000 · The papers of Friedrich von Hayek and Karl Popper, both former Hoover fellows, are housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. Two of the twentieth century’s best-known thinkers, they were friends for half a century. The personal and intellectual exchanges in these postcards and letters document their remarkable relationship.

  5. Sep 2, 2016 · Karl Popper died, age 92, of cancer on September 17, 1994 in Kenley, England, UK. He was buried beside his wife in Vienna’s Lainzer Friedhof Cemetery. The couple had no children.

  6. Sep 19, 1994 · September 18, 1994 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. CROYDON, ENGLAND -- Sir Karl Popper, 92, a philosopher and prominent anti-Marxist whose views helped frame the ideals of Britain's conservative government...

  7. Nov 13, 1997 · Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th 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, conventionalism, and relativism in science and in human affairs generally, a committed advocate and staunch defender of the ...

  8. Twentieth-century philosophy. Name: Karl Raimund Popper. Birth: July 28, 1902. Vienna, Austria. Death: September 17, 1994. London, England. School/tradition: critical rationalism, fallibilism, evolutionary epistemology. Main interests. Epistemology, philosophy of science, social and political philosophy.

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