Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can be scrutinised with decisive experiments.
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Background
- Born in
- Vienna
- Educated at
- University of ViennaUniversity of Cambridge
- Awards
- 🏆 Catalonia International Prize🏆 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art🏆 Otto Hahn Peace Medal🏆 Montyon Prize🏆 Goethe Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Moritz Schlick🎓 Karl Bühler
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Charles Leonard Hamblin
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Trending topics shown first"In speaking of sociological laws or natural laws of social life I have in mind such laws as are formulated by modern economic theories, for instance, the theory of international trade, or the theory o…"
"One of the ideas I had discussed in The Poverty of Historicism was the influence of a prediction upon the event predicted. I had called this the "Oedipus effect", because the oracle played a most impo…"
"I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should …"
"It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to compl…"
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1902
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