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The Open Society and Its Enemies is a work on political philosophy by the philosopher Karl Popper, in which the author presents a "defence of the open society against its enemies", [1] and offers a critique of theories of teleological historicism, according to which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws.
One of the earliest formulations of "paradox of tolerance" is given in the notes of Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies in 1945. Popper raises the paradox in the chapter notes regarding "The Principle of Leadership", connecting the paradox to his refutation of Plato's defense of "benevolent despotism". In the main text, Popper ...
Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA [4] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British [5] philosopher, academic and social commentator. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific ...
Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at reality, described by the British philosopher Karl Popper in a lecture given in August 1967. [1] The concept involves three interacting worlds, called world 1 , world 2 and world 3 .
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper.Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German original, titled Logik der Forschung.
Popper's usage of "historicism" has been criticized as differing significantly from the normal definition of the word. [6] That is, amongst historians themselves, a historicist is normally someone whose methodology is cautiously hermeneutical and exegetical , rather than predictive and speculative.
The principle of rationality (or rationality principle) was coined by Karl R. Popper in his Harvard Lecture of 1963, and published in his book Myth of Framework. [1] It is related to what he called the 'logic of the situation' in an Economica article of 1944/1945, published later in his book The Poverty of Historicism. [2]
Karl Popper, a philosopher of science, sought to solve the problem of induction. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] He argued that science does not use induction, and induction is in fact a myth. [ 28 ] Instead, knowledge is created by conjecture and criticism. [ 29 ]