Karl Popper
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA |
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September 17 1994 (aged 92) |
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Analytic |
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Epistemology |
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Notable ideas |
Falsifiability |
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Socrates (via Plato) · Aristotle |
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Virtually all philosophy of science since 1930s · Hayek · Friedman |
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994) was an Austrian and British[1] philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics.
He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote a lot on social and political philosophy. Popper is known for the idea of empirical falsification.
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[change] Life
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.[2] Popper received a Lutheran upbringing and was educated at the University of Vienna.[2]. His father had 12,000-14,000 volumes in his personal library.[3]
In 1919 he became attracted by Marxism and therefore joined the Association of Socialist School Students and also became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, which was at that time a party that fully adopted the marxist ideology.[4] He soon became disillusioned, abandoned the ideology and remained a passive supporter of social liberalism throughout his life.
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[change] References
- ↑ Watkins, J. Obituary of Karl Popper, 1902-1994. Proceedings of the British Academy, 94, pp. 645–684
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Magee, Bryan. The Story of Philosophy. New York: DK Publishing, 2001. p. 221.
- ↑ Raphael, F. The Great Philosophers London: Phoenix, p. 447
- ↑ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/ - Stephen Thornton, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
[change] Other websites
- Discussion of Popper's Life and Work from Philosophy Talk Radio Program
- Karl Popper from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Karl Popper Web
- Karl Popper Institute includes complete bibliography 1925-1999
- Sir Karl Popper Society International Association for the Promotion of Science and Research, in German
- University of Canterbury (NZ) brief biography of Popper
- Audio recordings of Karl Popper speaking
- Influence on Friesian Philosophy
- Open Society Institute George Soros foundations network
- "A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper" by Martin Gardner
- "A Sceptical Look at 'A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper'" by J C Lester.
- Sir Karl Popper: Science: Conjectures and Refutations
- Information on Lakatos/Popper Site maintained by John Kadvany, PhD.
- Discovering Karl Popper by Peter Singer The New York Review of Books, vol. 21, no. 7 (May 2, 1974)
- An interview with Karl Popper. Persian translation by Khosro Naghed
- Karl Popper (Il Diogene) (it)
- "Karl Popper", BBC Radio 4 programme, In Our Time, 8 February 2007. Discussion with John Worrall, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics, Anthony O'Hear, Weston Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University, Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
- History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science, BOOK V: Karl Popper Site offers free downloads by chapter available for public use.
- Karl Popper Archive at LSE British Library This is a microfilm copy of the Stanford University Popper Archive of Popper's papers to whose catalogue a weblink is provided.
- http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/ub/sondersammlungen/karl-popper-sammlung/index.html (Karl Popper Archive at University Library Klagenfurt. Consists of Popper's Library and paper copies of the Popper Papers at The Hoover Institution Archive at Stanford, Cal.)
