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Karl Popper is Born
Karl Popper was born in Vienna in 1902, to upper middle-class parents. Popper left school at the age of 16 and attended lectures in mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology and the history of music as a guest student at the University of Vienna. -
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The annexation of Austria in 1938 became the catalyst which prompted Popper to refocus his writings on social and political philosophy and he published The Open Society and Its Enemies, his critique of totalitarianism. From this point on his reputation and stature as a philosopher of science and social thinker grew enormously, and he continued to write prolifically -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
What many have said is the most important book written in the 20th century. Popper offered his first detailed account of scientific methodology and of the importance of falsification.Popper aimed to capture the logical or methodological differences between scientific disciplines, such as physics, and non-scientific disciplines, such as myth-making, philosophical metaphysics, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist social criticism. -
Karl Popper Dies
Popper died of complications of cancer, pneumonia and kidney failure in Kenley at the age of 92 on 17 September 1994. He had been working continuously on his philosophy until two weeks before, when he suddenly fell terminally ill. Popper's manuscripts went to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, partly during his lifetime and partly as supplementary material after his death.
