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Birth
Karl Popper was born in Vienna. His parents, were of Jewish origin. Popper recalled his up bring as decidedly bookish. -
University of Vienna
Popper left Realgymnasium, because he was unhappy with the teaching he went to attend the University of Vienna. He did not formally enroll for another year. -
Married
Popper married Josephine Anna Henninger, she supported him and also was his amanuensis until her death in 1985 -
New Zealand
he took a teaching position at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. -
The Open Society and its Enemies
Popper takes Socrates ideas over Plato's. Say that Plato betrayed Socrates in the republic, he describes Socrates sympathizing with totalitarianism.
Popper, Karl R. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1971. Print. -
The Poverty of Historicism
Popper talks about two main ideas of historicism pro-naturalistic approach which favors the application of the methods of physics
Popper, Karl R. The Poverty of Historicism. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Science should us Falsifiability, because a reproducible experiment or observation can refute a theory and experiment but no number of experiments can prove a theory
Popper, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson, 1960. -
Conjectures and Refutations
Karl Popper viewed Einstein’s theory as being “risky” as it’s still being subjected to proof by empirical methods. He proved that Adler’s social theories on individual psychology had non scientific basis. This with other theories such as that of Astrology he believed were practised with ancient and rather primitive tools: and he termed them as “beliefs” or “metaphysics” or “pseudo-sciences”. Popper, Karl. Conjectures and Refutations. Routledge Classics, 2002. -
Knighted
Sr. Karl Popper was knighted. -
Retired
Retired from the University of London in 1969. He remained active as a writer. -
The end of Sr. Karl Popper
Popper died in 1994
