Karl Popper

Sir Karl Popper
Karl Popper c. 1980s
BornKarl Raimund Popper
28 Julie 1902(1902-07-28)
Vienna, Austrick-Hungary
Dee'd17 September 1994(1994-09-17) (aged 92)
Lunnon, Ingland, U.K.
NaitionalityAustrick
Breetish
Alma materVarsity o Vienna
Era20t-century filosofie
RegionWastren filosofie
Schuil
Main interests
Notable ideas
  • Bauld hypothesis
  • Creetical raitionalism
  • Falsificationism
  • Evolutionary trial an error view o the growth o knawledge
  • Propensity interpretation
  • Open society
  • Cosmological pluralism
  • Modified essentialism
  • Axiomatisation o probability
  • Active Darwinism
  • Spearhead model o evolution
  • Objective hermeneutics
  • The paradox o tolerance
  • Creetical dualism (o facts an staundarts)
  • Experimental corroboration as an indicator o verisimilitude/truthlikeness
  • Basissatz (basic statement)
  • Popper's experiment
  • The historicism–historism distinction
  • Negative utilitarianism

Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS[6] (28 Julie 1902 – 17 September 1994) wis an Austrick-Breetish filosofer an professor.[7][8][9] He is generally regairdot as ane o the greatest filosofers o science o the 20t century.[10][11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Thornton, Stephen (1 Januar 2015). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Karl Popper (Winter 2015 ed.). ("Popper professes to be anti-conventionalist, and his commitment to the correspondence theory of truth places him firmly within the realist's camp.")
  2. ↑ "Cartesianism (philosophy): Contemporary influences" in Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ Hacohen, Malachi Haim. Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna. Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp. 83–85.
  4. ↑ Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970 (2nd ed.), p. 146.
  5. ↑ Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 1994.
  6. ↑ Miller, D. (1997). "Sir Karl Raimund Popper, C. H., F. B. A. 28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994.: Elected F.R.S. 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 369–310. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0021.
  7. ↑ Watkins, J. "Obituary of Karl Popper, 1902–1994". Proceedings of the British Academy. 94: 645–84.
  8. ↑ Karl Popper (1902–94) advocated by Andrew Marr BBC In Our Time – Greatest Philosopher, Retrieved Jan 2015
  9. ↑ Adams, I.; Dyson, R.W., Fifty Major Political Thinkers, Routledge, 2007, p. 196. "He became a British citizen in 1945".
  10. ↑ Thornton, Stephen (1 Januar 2015). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Karl Popper (Winter 2015 ed.).
  11. ↑ Horgan, J (1992). "Profile: Karl R. Popper – The Intellectual Warrior". Scientific American. 267 (5): 38–44. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1192-38.
  12. ↑ Shea, B. "Popper, Karl: Philosophy of Science", in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, James Feiser (ed.) and Bradley Dowden (ed.). Retrieved 10 Feb 2016.