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Birth of Sir Karl
Karl Popper was born in Vienna Australia into an upper middle class family. His mother, Jenny Schiff and father, Simon Popper. -
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Life and interests
Popper was a very intelligent individual. From a young age he picked up interest such as music from his mother which at one point he wanted to make a career out of. Popper left school at the age of 16 and attended lectures in mathematics, psychology and the history of music as a guest student at the University of Vienna. In 1919 he became heavily involved in left-wing politics, but soon abandoned it completely. He continued his schooling and earned his doctorate in psychology in 1928. -
Poppers' Philosophy of Science
Karl studied the great minds of Einstein and Freud and compared the different ways they observed science and came to a conclusion that not all science was created equal. In 1935, Popper published The Logic of Research, his first major work in the philosophy of science in which he distinguished scientific statements from other kind, introducing fallibility. He says a statement can be considered scientific if it can be disproved.
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Teaching
In 1946, after the Second World War, Sir Karl moved to the United Kingdom to become a reader in logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics. In 1949, he was appointed professor of logic and scientific method where he continue to instruct until he retired in 1969. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Logic-of-Scientific-Discovery/plot-summary/ -
Death of Sir Karl
Popper died of complications of cancer, pneumonia and kidney failure 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. After cremation, his ashes were taken to Vienna and buried at adjacent to where his wife Josefine Anna Popper had already been buried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
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