Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
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Popper, Sir Karl Raimund (1902–94), Austrian philosopher of science. He left Vienna for New Zealand on Hitler's rise to power, and came to England in 1946, where, in 1949, he was appointed professor of logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics. His philosophy of science claims to solve the problem of induction: the problem of extrapolating from past to future, or, more precisely from limited evidence to a general conclusion. He has also contributed to political philosophy and a defence of free will and the ‘self-conscious mind’. His works include
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (
Logik der Forschung, 1934);
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), and
The Self and Its Brain (1977, with John C. Eccles).
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Obituary: Professor Sir Karl Popper
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/19/1994; ; 700+ words
; Karl Raimund Popper, philosopher: born Vienna...Self and its Brain (with Sir John Eccles) 1977, Postscript...Bartley) 1982-83, A Pocket Popper 1983, Popper Selections 1985...Croydon 17 September 1994. KARL POPPER was one of the most...
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Philosopher Karl Popper Dies; Leading Anti-Marxist in Britain
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/19/1994; 669 words
; Sir Karl Popper, 92, a philosopher and prominent...s Conservative Party. Sir Karl's anti-Marxist "The Open...During the radical 1960s, Sir Karl came to be labeled a reactionary...methodical piling up of data. Karl Raimund Popper, who once claimed he...
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`FLY-BOTTLE' PLAYS ON AUDIENCE MINDS.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/11/2004; 700+ words
; ...is just such a depiction of Sir Karl Raimund Popper, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein...history has it, nearly went at Popper with a fireplace poker during an...to tell his side of the truth. Popper is described in the program as...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/17/1998; 552 words
; ...Tomlinson Griffes, composer, 1884; Sir Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman...Porter, novelist, 1980; Professor Sir Karl Raimund Popper, philosopher, 1994. On this day...frigates Briton and Tagus, under Sir Thomas Staines and Captain Pipon...
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American Philosophical Quarterly: Vol. 45, No. 2, April 2008.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...It explores some ideas from Swineburne's Simplicity as Evidence of Truth, and compares them with those of Sir Karl Raimund Popper's philosophy of science. The article details how the theory of Swineburne is doubted considering the prevailing...
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Karl Raimund Popper The Austrian philosopher Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) offered an original analysis of scientific research that he also applied to research in history and philosophy. Karl Popper was born in Vienna on July 28...
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Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Popper, Sir Karl Raimund (1902–94) British philosopher of natural and social sciences...absolutely confirmed. In The Open Society and its Enemies (1945), Popper attacked the historicism of Marxism .
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Popper, Karl
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Popper, Karl 1902-1994 Sir Karl Raimund Popper was a leading twentieth-century philosopher. His first...greatest intellectual heroes, Plato (427 – 347 BCE) and Karl Marx (1818 – 1883). He claimed that their devotees...
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induction
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...on the question of how to assess the strength of different kinds of inductive argument (see Nelson Goodman ; Sir Karl Raimund Popper ). For a classic account of inductive arguments see J. S. Mill, System of Logic (1843). Bibliography...
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pop sociology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...is therefore not always easy. Popper, Sir Karl Raimund (1902–94) An Austrian...Logic and Scientific Method). Popper made a number of major contributions...studies of the natural sciences. Popper was knighted in 1965, but remained...
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