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The Birth of Karl Popper
A native of Austria, Karl Popper was born on the 28th of July in 1902.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Popper Access Date: March 24, 2019 -
"The Logic of Scientific Discovery," Karl Popper
Published in 1934, Poppers' " The Logic of Scientific Discovery," breeches Popper's favored concept of Falsifiability. Citing that, "the true method of science was not one of observation, hypothesis, and confirmation but one of conjecture and experiment..."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ideology-society. Accessed March 24, 2019 -
"The Poverty of Historicism," Karl Popper
"The Poverty of Historicism," By Karl Popper was his third book. Published in 1957, Popper criticizes historicism, describing it as "an approach to the social sciences which assumes the historical prediction is their principle aim"(Popper, 1957) This view is related to his belief in rejecting the induction method in favor for failiability.
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/stable/2549898?sid=primo&origin=crossref&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Accessed March 24, 2019 -
The Death of Sir Karl Popper
In his passing Popper was remembered for not only his philosophies applied to science but his political philosophies as well. An article announcing his death the New York Times called
Popper a "defender of democratic systems and an opponent of Marxism," (NY Times, 1994)
Educational Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-sGqBsWv4
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/18/obituaries/sir-karl-popper-is-dead-at-92-philosopher-of-open-society.html Accessed March 24, 2019
