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Sir Karl Raimund Popper

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Karl Popper, or otherwise known as Sir Karl Raimund Popper, was born on July 28, 1902 in Vienna, Austria. He was a British philosopher of natural and social science who was a strong believer that knowledge "evolves from experience of the mind."
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  • 1st Book, Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery)

    1st Book, Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery)
    Karl Popper wrote his first book, Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery) in 1934. It was published by the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists, even though Popper clearly rejected their inductive empiricism and developmental historicism. He believed that theories are accepted or rejected according to a selection process, and that the more generally applicable a theory is, the greater its value.
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    Teaching at Canterbury University

    Karl Popper taught philosophy at Canterbury University College located in New Zealand from 1937 to 1945.

  • 2nd Book, The Open Society and It's Enemies

    2nd Book, The Open Society and It's Enemies
    In 1945, Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies
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    Popper's contribution to Philosophy of Science

    His contribution to the philosophy of science was his rejection of the inductive method in empirical science. He was a believer in the scientific method, and stated that a scientific hypothesis may be tested and verified by repeated outcomes of repeated experiments. Popper argued that hypotheses are validated by the “falsifiability criterion.” He said that astrology, metaphysics, Marxist history, and psychoanalysis are not empirical sciences because of the lack of falsifiability.
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    Teaching at London School of Economics

    Karl Popper became a professor of logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics from 1949 until his retirement in 1969.

  • 3rd Book, The Poverty of Historicism

    3rd Book, The Poverty of Historicism
    In 1957, he wrote his 3rd book, The Poverty of Historicism.
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    Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery, 3 vol. (1981–82).

    From 1981 to 1982, Karl Popper worked on 3 volumes of a postscript to his first book, the Logic of Scientific Discovery.

  • Death

    Death
    Karl Popper died in London, England at the age of 92.