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Karl Popper Born 7/28/1902; Died 9/17/1994
Karl Popper's greatest contribution to science was his disagreement of the scientific method, as well as his proposal of the necessity of falsifiability in the testing of a hypothesis. He recorded this idea in is 1934 book Logik der Forschung. Popper talks about how simply making a hard conclusion based on observation alone is not enough to make the results fully trustworthy. Falsifiability and the ability for it to be proven wrong gives the evidence in the for the hypothesis more validity. -
Karl Popper Born 7/28/1902; Died 9/17/1994
In 1945, Popper introduces another significant work named The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this work, Popper displays his disdain for the ideas of many well-known thinkers, such as Marx and Plato. He claims that their ideas were only based on their social status, as opposed to believing that those groups must evolve and that it is our responsibility as an intelligent people to figure out exactly what that is supposed to look like. -
Karl Popper Born 7/28/1902; Died 9/17/1994
Conjectures and Refutations is the next in the line of the great works of Popper. Popper analyzes the scientific arguments that other well-known scientists and critiques their work. In the same process, as he goes through them, he is making his point about whether those arguments are scientific ones or are purely Pseudo-Science. Essentially, if it cannot be verified through testing, then it is not real science. It is then implied that knowledge is gained through learning from the past. -
Karl Popper Born 7/28/1902; Died 9/17/1994
Finally, one of Popper's later works alongside John Eccles was released in 1977 and was titled The Self and Its Brain. To keep this simple, this book is basically a debate between authors. They focus on the relationship between the body and mind, and each of them states their thoughts throughout the different parts of the book. Both tend to come at it from different perspectives. Eccles comes at it from as biological perspective, and of course Popper has a more philosophical outlook on it.