biography
| name: |
Popper, Sir Karl (Raimund)
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1902–94)
|
| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at Vienna University, where he associated with the ‘Vienna Circle’ of philosophers, though he was strongly critical of their logical positivism. In 1935 he published his first book on scientific methodology, Die Logik der Forschung (1934, The Logic of Scientific Discovery), which stressed the importance of ‘falsifiability’ as a defining factor of true scientific theories, which he contrasted with such ‘pseudosciences’ as Marxism and psychoanalysis. He left Vienna during Hitler's rise to power, lectured in New Zealand (1937–45), finally becoming professor of logic and scientific method at London (1949–69). Later books include The Open Society and its Enemies (1945), a polemic directed against all systems with totalitarian implications, particularly Marxism, and The Poverty of Historicism (1957). He was knighted in 1965. |
|
|
