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Popper birth and early life
Popper was born in 1902 in Vienna. He was influenced in his early life by his father who was a lawyer by trade and brushed off his interests in philosophy to his son Karl. He was also heavily influenced by his mother's love for music. He attended the local Realgymnasium and later left to attend the University of Vienna in1918. This is where he became heavily involved in left-wing politics and ideas of Marxism. Later in 1925, he undertook a doctoral program and began laying his foundation. -
The logic of Scientific Discovery
Popper published his work explaining an asymmetry between verifiability and falsifiability, an asymmetry that results from the logical form of universal statements. According to Popper, "non-reproducible single occurrences are of no significance to science. Thus a few stray basic statements contradicting a theory will hardly induce us to reject it as falsified. We shall take it as falsified only if we discover a reproducible effect that refutes the theory" -
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Popper publishes his work that questions certain aspects of social science. In this work, he questions many early philosophers such as Plato, and Socrates. He analyzes Plato's ideas of social change and ideas of Athenian democracy. he then goes on to criticize the work of Marx and Hegel. Referred to as on of the most popular defenses of western liberal values in the post-WWII era. -
Conjectures and Refutations The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Popper published his ideas in this book regarding the way in which he integrates the concepts of truth and content to frame the metalogical concept of “truthlikeness” or “verisimilitude”. A “good” scientific theory, Popper argues in that work, has a higher level of verisimilitude than its rivals, and he explicates this concept by reference to the logical consequences of theories. A theory’s content is the totality of its logical consequences, which can be divided into two classes:(Stanford,2021) -
“Three Worlds”
Popper develops the notion of objectivity further in a novel but controversial way by seeking to free it completely from all psychological constraints. What is central to epistemology, he reaffirms, is the concept of objectivity, which he seeks to show requires neither the notions of subjective mental states nor even that of a subject “possessing” knowledge: knowledge in its full objective sense, he argues, is knowledge “without a knowing subject”(Brendan,2014) -
Death
Karl Popper died leaving this world changed by his interesting and well throughout ideas of not just physical science but political science and his interpretation of how the world works. -