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Born
Karl Popper was born in Vienna, Austria in 1902. He was born in upper middle class parents. All of his parents and grandparents were Jewish. But his parent convert from Judism to Lutheranism in order to fit in with cultural Austrian society. -
Published "The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge"
Fearing the rise of Nazism, he started to write his first book (The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge). Popper trying to solve the two basic problems with his celebrated theory of falsifiable. He argues that the inferences made in science are not inductive but deductive. Routlegde, 2008. https://philpapers.org/rec/EGGTTF -
Publish "The Poverty of Historicism"
Containing 3 parts, part 1 describes historicist views, in part 2, Popper argues against historicist method and he describes his criticism of it, and finally he contrasts modern methodologies with historicist method, which he deemed as antiquated. Popper advocates for piecemeal social engineering and reversible changes are made to society in order to be best able to learn from the changes made. Bruce Sterling, 2018. https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/02/poppers-poverty-historicist -
Publish "The open society and its new enemies"
Summary: open society is characterized by recognizing every human being as a person. Persons have the freedom to shape their lives as they see fit, as well as the responsibility to account for their actions on demand. This freedom gives rise to fundamental rights. These are rights of defense against external interference in one’s own judgement about how one wants to conduct one’s life. Michael Esfeld, 2021. https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/features/the-open-society-and-its-new-enemies/ -
Republished "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" in English
In this book, Karl Popper introduces the idea that scientific method should be based on falsifiability. Popper argued instead that hypotheses are deductively validated by what he called the “falsifiability criterion.” According to Popper, such metaphysics, Marxist history, and Freudian psychoanalysis are not empirical sciences, because of their failure to adhere to the principle of falsifiability. Britannica, Dec 26th, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Popper. -
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Retirement and death
Popper retired from academic life in 1969, though he remained intellectually active for the rest of his life.
Popper died of "complications of cancer, pneumonia and kidney failure" in Kenley at the age of 92 on 17 September 1994.