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Published The Open Society And Its Enemies
A book about uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper argues that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics. -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
This publication was when Popper introduced his solution to the problem of induction. This was when he introduced the concept of falsifiability. Stating that for a theory to be scientific it needed to be tested and to be proven false. Unfalsifiable theories are unscientific precisely because they cannot be tested was his concept behind falsifiability. -
Knight Popper
In 1965 Karl Popper was knighted
I thought this was a fun fact that I did not know. -
Retired as a professor
Karl Popper retired from the University of London in 1969 but still remained active as a writer. -
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
In this publication Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. He argues that scientific knowledge is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection. -
Realism and the Aim of Science
This is the first volume of the Postscript. Popper formulates and explains his non-justificationist theory of knowledge. That science aims at true explanatory theories, yet it can never prove, or justify, any theory to be true, not even if it is a true theory. He states that science must continue to question and criticize all its theories, even those that happen to be true.