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Beginnings of Karl Popper
Born in Vienna, Austria July 28, 1902.
He taught philosophy at canterbury university college in New Zealand from 1937 to 1945.
During those years he found Freud, Adler, and Einstein's scientific theories interesting, and how different they were from each other he gravitated towards Einstein's theory of relativity due to the fact that it took a major risk and the theory could be wrong. -
The Logic of Research
In 1935 Popper's first major work for philosophy was published, called The Logic of Research, and later on it was translated to English and the name changed to The Logic of Scientific Discovery publish in 1959. The book was about scientific methodology and the importance of falsification. citation for picture:
Logic of scientific discovery by karl R popper - biblio.com. (n.d.). Retrieved July 22, 2022, from https://www.biblio.com/book/logic-scientific-discovery-popper-karl-r/d/1461923749 -
Conjectures and Refutations
One of his most known works goes into his theory of falsification. Helps to understand the demarcation between science and pseudoscience. Picture citation:
Popper, K. (n.d.). Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge (routledge classics) by Karl Popper - paperback - From world of books ltd (sku: Gor002657110). Biblio.com. Retrieved July 22, 2022, from https://www.biblio.com/book/conjectures-refutations-growth-scientific-knowledge-routledge/d/733859222 -
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Citations
Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Karl popper. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 22, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Popper Internet encyclopedia of philosophy. (n.d.). Retrieved July 22, 2022, from https://iep.utm.edu/pop-sci/#H2