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Birth of Karl Popper
Karl Raimund Popper was born in Vienna, Austria on July 28, 1902. His parents were Simon Siegmund Carl Popper and Jenny Schiff and he had two older siblings. He was an Austrian-British Philosopher that changed changed the views about science and he is known to be one of the world's most influential philosophers of our time. 'Karl Popper was a philosopher of uncommon originality, clarity and depth, and his range was exceptional.' - The Times -
Higher Education
Popper began his academic studies of mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Vienna. He received a PhD in Philosophy in 1928. He is also received many awards and honorary degrees including doctorate from Charles University in Prague. -
Marriage to Josefine Anna Henninger
Personal life: married his colleague Josefine Henninger. -
Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Research)
This was Popper's first major work about the philosophy of science and it was originally written in German later was released in English.in the The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959). Popper argued that scientific theories are distinguished from non-scientific theories in that "they make testable claims that future observations might reveal to be false." He believe science was all about falsification. Here is a Youtube I found on Poppers theories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-sGqBsWv4 -
London School of Economics
Popper started teaching until 1969 where he continued his work on the philosophy of science. -
The Poverty of Historicism
Another one of Karl Popper's top works in which he critiqued and argued the scientific methodology of historicism. He denied the fundamental ideas of historicism, to include that they just attempt to form predictive and explanatory laws. The book consisted of three articles where he offered controversial analysis of the methodology of the social sciences."The logic of his theory is uttterly simple: a universal statement is falsified by a single genuine counter-instance."(Stanford, 2022) -
Conjectures and Refutations
Another popular work from Karl Popper was Conjectures and Refutations published in 1963. In this book he explores how science advances with falsification and not by verification. Poppers methodology is that in order to prove a statement is accurate one must conduct research that can disprove it. In this book he also shares his theories how this same concept applies to politics and history. -
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
Sir Karl Popper becomes knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He was then elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. His innovative thinking became so inspiring that he received some of the highest recognitions. -
Death of Popper
Popper died at 92 years in London, England and the cause of death was pneumonia, cancer and kidney failure. His final resting place is at the Lainzer cemetery in Vienna. -
References
Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). (2022, September 12).https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/Popper Karl: Philosophy of Science | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (n.d.). https://iep.utm.edu/pop-sci/Image
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