Karl R. Popper

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born

July 28, 1902 in Vienna, Austria

died

September 17, 1994

gender

male

website

http://elm.eeng.dcu.ie/~tkpw/

genre

Philosophy, Science, Politics

influences

Socrates (via Plato), Aristotle, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Einstein,...more

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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 social criti...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 2,456 ratings · 154 reviews · 55 distinct works

	The Logic of Scientific Discovery 3.90 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 1934 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1 : The Spell of Plato 4.06 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1945 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume Two: Hegel and Marx 3.98 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1945 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge 4.06 avg rating — 181 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Poverty of Historicism 3.79 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach 3.89 avg rating — 75 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	All Life Is Problem Solving by Karl R. Popper, Patrick Camiller (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography 3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1976 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Popper Selections by Karl R. Popper, David Miller (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Open Society and Its Enemies 4.10 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1945 — 8 editions	My rating:

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“Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
― Karl R. Popper

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“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”
― Karl R. Popper

tags: intolerance , tolerance

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“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
― Karl R. Popper

tags: philosophy , reason

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