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Karl Popper was born on 28 July 1902 in Vienna to Jewish parents. -
In 1928, he received a PhD in Philosophy. His dissertation, On the Problem of Method in the Psychology of Thinking, dealt primarily with the psychology of thought and discovery[1] https://iep.utm.edu/pop-sci/ -
Poppers first major work in the philosophy of science. This book talks about falsification. Popper, Karl. The Logic of Research. Basic Books, 1945. -
Germany would be the catalyst for Popper. "The annexation of Austria in 1938 became the catalyst which prompted Popper to refocus his writings on social and political philosophy. He published The Open Society and Its Enemies, his critique of totalitarianism, in 1945"[1] This leads to poppers beginnings in philosophy. [1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#BasiStatFalsConv -
This book goes on to discuss in short how to allow a system to make it so the bad rulers can be removed. The book also discusses different forms of ruling along with two party systems. Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Basic Books, 1945. -
Karl Popper has had a long career in philosophy with books about how the people should rule and critiques on totalitarianism. But Poppers biggest contribution would come from his ideas on what is commonly referred to as true science and the non-science. -
Propper begins teaching at University of London
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Popper believed that science should be about trying to disprove your theories rather than finding things that prove them right. In essence Popper believed that making big predictions/hypothesis and trying to disprove(falsification) them was true science and any that did the complete opposite and tried to find things to verify their predictions was Pseudoscience. -
The goal was falsification, "Popper accordingly rejects the view that induction is the characteristic method of scientific investigation and inference, substituting falsifiability in its place. It is easy, he argues, to obtain evidence in favour of virtually any theory, and he consequently holds that such “corroboration”, as he terms it, should count scientifically only if it is the positive result of a genuinely “risky” prediction, which might conceivably have been false." -
Poppers rewrite/translation of his previous book into english Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Basic Books, 1959.
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The propensity interpretation of probability
Karl R. Popper 1959 The Propensity Interpretation of Probability -
Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994. Conjectures and Refutations : the Growth of Scientific Knowledge. New York :Harper & Row, 19681965. -
Popper retires as a Professor.
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Popper, Karl. The Philosophy of Karl Popper, 1974. -
Karl Popper would retire from the University of London in the late 1960s and remain active as a lecture until he died on 17 September 1994. -
Crash Course Karl Popper's Falsification [1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#BasiStatFalsConv
[2] https://iep.utm.edu/pop-sci/ Image Citations:
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