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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Karl_PopperKarl Popper - Wikipedia

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   Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA [4] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British [5] philosopher, academic and social commentator.

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3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › popperKarl Popper - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Nov 13, 1997 · Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century. He was also a social and political philosopher of considerable stature, a self-professed critical-rationalist, a dedicated opponent of all forms of scepticism and relativism in science and in human affairs generally and a committed ...

4. www.simplypsychology.org › karl-popperKarl Popper: Falsification Theory - Simply Psychology

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   Jul 31, 2023 · Learn about Karl Popper's philosophy of science, which argues that scientific theories should be falsifiable rather than verifiable. Find out how Popper criticized induction, empiricism, and the demarcation problem, and see examples of his falsification principle.

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6. www.britannica.com › biography › Karl-PopperKarl Popper | Biography, Books, Theory, & Facts | Britannica

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   May 14, 2024 · Karl Popper, Austrian-born British philosopher of natural and social science who subscribed to anti-determinist metaphysics, believing that knowledge evolves from experience of the mind. Learn more about Popper’s life and career, including his various books.

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   An overview of the life and work of Karl Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. Learn about his falsificationist methodology, his views on probability, quantum mechanics, and social science, and his legacy.

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   Sep 17, 1994 · Learn about Karl Popper, the Austrian philosopher who promoted falsifiability as the essence of science. Find out how his logic and parable of the black swan shaped the scientific community.

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   What did Karl Popper contribute to science?

   • Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to debates concerning general scientific methodology and theory choice, the demarcation of science from non-science, the nature of probability and quantum mechanics, and the methodology of the social sciences.

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   What was Popper's philosophy?

   • This philosophical focus on questions of method, objectivity and claims to scientific status was to become a principal life-long concern, bringing the orientation of Popper’s thought into line with that of such contemporary “analytic” philosophers as Frege and Russell as well as that of many members of the Vienna Circle.

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   Who was Karl Popper?

   • Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century.

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   Is Popper a historical indeterminist?

   • Popper, then, is an historical indeterminist, insofar as he holds that history does not evolve in accordance with intrinsic laws or principles, that in the absence of such laws and principles unconditional prediction in the social sciences is an impossibility, and that there is no such thing as historical necessity.

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   Is Popper a realist?

   • First, Popper claims to be a realist and rejects conventionalist and instrumentalist accounts of science. But his account in the Logic of Scientific Discovery of the role played by basic statements in the methodology of falsification seems to sit uneasily with that.

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   What is Popper's problem?

   • 3. The Problem of Demarcation For Popper the central problem in the philosophy of science is that of demarcation, i.e., of distinguishing between science and what he terms “non-science” (e.g., logic, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and Adler’s individual psychology).

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10. iep.utm.edu › popp-polKarl Popper: Political Philosophy | Internet Encyclopedia of ...

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    Learn about Popper's critique of totalitarianism, his defense of freedom and democracy, and his vision of the open society. Explore his arguments against historicism, holism, essentialism, and utopian social engineering.