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Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifia…

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Awards
Knight Bachelor (1965)
Education
University of Vienna (PhD, 1928)
Born
Karl Raimund Popper (1902-07-28)28 July 1902 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Citizenship
Austria · United Kingdom (from 1945)
Died
17 September 1994(1994-09-17) (aged 92) London, England
Doctoral advisor
Karl Ludwig Bühler · Moritz Schlick

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Notable ideas · 28
Karl Popper → Active Darwinism, Axiomatization of probability, Basissatz (basic statement), Bold hypothesis, Bold hypothesisCritical rationalismFalsifiabilityCriticism of dogmatic/naive falsificationismDemarcation problemEvolutionary trial and error view of the growth of knowledgePrope…, Critical dualism (of facts and standards), Critical rationalism, Criticism of dogmatic/naive falsificationism, Criticism of justificationism, Criticism of psychoanalysis, Demarcation problem, Evolutionary trial and error view of the growth of knowledge, Experimental corroboration as an indicator of verisimilitude/truthlikeness, Falsifiability, Logic of scientific discovery, Modified essentialism, Negative utilitarianism, Objective hermeneutics, Open society, Popper's experiment
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Main interests · 9
Karl Popper → Epistemology, Interpretations of quantum mechanics, Logic, Metaphysics, Origin of life, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science, Rationality, Social and political philosophy
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School · 7
Karl Popper → Analytic philosophy, Correspondence theory of truth, Critical rationalism, Interactionism, Liberalism, Metaphysical realism, Würzburg School
see also · 5
Karl Popper → AustriaList, Calculus, Philosophy, Popper, WikiquoteGeorge Soros
Doctoral students · 4
Karl Popper → A. I. Sabra, Alan Musgrave, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Joseph Agassi
Institutions · 4
Karl Popper → Canterbury University College, Darwin College, Cambridge, King's College London, London School of Economics

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Karl PopperDoctoral advisorMoritz Schlick1.00infobox
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Karl PopperInstitutionsLondon School of Economics1.00infobox
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Karl PopperNotable ideasBold hypothesisCritical rationalismFalsifiabilityCriticism of dogmatic/naive falsificationismDemarcation problemEvolutionary trial and error view of the growth of knowledgePrope…1.00infobox
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