Karl Popper

Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.

Biography

Educated at the University of Vienna, Popper emigrated to New Zealand in 1937, teaching at the University of New Zealand in Christchurch and then to England in 1945, where he was granted British citizenship and lived for the remainder of his life. He lectured in Philosophy at University College Cambridge (1937-45) and in 1969 was appointed an Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. He has held a variety of positions and lectured at Universities throughout Europe and America [1].

Works by Karl Popper

• Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie, typescript, 1930–33, 1979
  • The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge, 2008
• Logik der Forschung, 1934.
  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1959.
• The Open Society and its Enemies, 1945-.
  • Vol. 1, The Spell of Plato, 1943-
  • Vol. 2, The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath, 1966-
• The Poverty of Historicism, 1936
• Objective Knowledge, 1966, excerpt.
• with Konrad Lorenz, Die Zukunft ist offen, 1985 (in German).
  • The Future is Open
  • Viitorul este deschis, trans. , (in Romanian).

Links

• Stephen Thornton, "Karl Popper", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• http://www.tkpw.net/