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Karl Popper was born in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to upper-middle-class parents. All of Popper's grandparents were assimilated Jews; the Popper family converted to Lutheranism before he was born [14] [15] and so he received a Lutheran baptism.
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.
Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at and understanding reality, developed by the British philosopher Karl Popper in many lectures and books, for example "Objective Knowledge - An Evolutionary Approach" (1972) and "The Self And Its Brain" (1977). Popper's theory involves three interacting worlds, called world 1, world 2 and world 3. [1]
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 rejects Plato's argument, in part because he argues that there are no readily available "enlightened philosopher-kings" prepared to adopt this role, and advocates for the institutions of liberal democracies as an alternative. In the corresponding chapter notes, Popper defines the paradox of tolerance and makes a similar argument.
Karl Popper considered demarcation as a major problem of the philosophy of science. Popper articulates the problem of demarcation as: Popper articulates the problem of demarcation as: The problem of finding a criterion which would enable us to distinguish between the empirical sciences on the one hand, and mathematics and logic as well as ...
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers is a 2001 book by BBC journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow about events in the history of philosophy involving Sir Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, leading to a confrontation at the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club in 1946. [1]
The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality is a 1994 book by the philosopher Karl Popper. [1]The book is a collection of papers "prepared on different occasions as lectures for non-specialist audiences" (p. x).