Karl Popper
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born
July 28, 1902
died
September 17, 1994
gender
male
place of birth
Vienna, Austria
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genre
Philosophy, Science, Politics
influences
Socrates (via Plato), Aristotle, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Einstein, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Vienna Circle, Tarski, Selz Russell, Campbell, Burke
about this author
Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH, FRS, FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian and British 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 extensively on social and political philosophy. Popper is known for repudiating the classical observationalist/inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification instead; for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy" and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of ...more
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper avg rating 4.04 — 130 ratings — published 1935 17 editions |
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The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume Two: Hegel and Marx by Karl Popper avg rating 4.01 — 99 ratings — published 1945 12 editions |
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The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1 : The Spell of Plato by Karl Popper avg rating 4.04 — 69 ratings — published 1945 9 editions |
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The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper avg rating 3.90 — 67 ratings — published 1961 11 editions |
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Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper avg rating 4.15 — 62 ratings — published 1963 9 editions |
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Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach by Karl Popper avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published 1972 6 editions |
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All Life is Problem Solving by Karl Popper avg rating 4.00 — 26 ratings — published 1995 8 editions |
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Popper Selections by Karl Popper, David Miller avg rating 3.90 — 20 ratings — published 1983 5 editions |
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Unended Quest by Karl Popper avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 1976 14 editions |
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جامعۀ باز و دشمنانش by Karl Popper avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 1945 6 editions |
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"For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority."
— Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery)
— Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery)
"Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of a philosophical character; we act on them in private life, in politics, in our work, and in every other sphere of our lives -- but while some of these assumptions are no doubt true, it is likely, that more are false and some are harmful. So the critical examination of our presuppositions -- which is a philosophical activity -- is morally as well as intellectually important."
— Karl Popper
— Karl Popper
