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

Articles

• "Zwei Bedeutungen von Falsifizierbarkeit [Two meanings of falsifiability]", In: H. Seiffert and G. Radnitzky, Handlexikon der Wissenschaftstheorie, München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994: 82–85.

Books

• Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie, typescript, 1930–33, 1979
  • The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge, 2008
• The Poverty of Historicism, 1936.
  • Mizeria istoricismului, trans. Dan Suciu and Adela Zamfir, Bucuresti: All, 1996 (in Romanian).
• Conjectures and Refutations, London: Routledge, 1963.
  • Conjecturi şi infirmări: creşterea cunoaşterii ştiinţifice, trans. Constantin Stoenescu, Dragan Stoianovici and Florin Lobonţ, Bucuresti: Trei, 2001 (in Romanian).
• Logik der Forschung: Zur Erkenntnistheorie der Modernen Naturwissenschaft [The Logic of Research], 1934; Vienn: Julius Springer-Verlag, print 1935.
  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery, New York: Basic Books, 1959.
  • Logica della scoperta scientifica, 1974 (in Italian).
  • Logica cercetării, trans. Mircea Flonta, Alexandru Surdu and Erwin Tivig, Bucuresti: Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1981 (in Romanian).
• 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-
• Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem, M. A. Notturno (ed.), London: Routledge, 1994
  • Cunoaşterea şi problema raportului corp-minte. O pledoarie pentru interacţionism, trans. Florin Lobonţ, Bucuresti: Trei, 1997.
• Objective Knowledge, 1966, excerpt.
• with Konrad Lorenz, Die Zukunft ist offen, 1985 (in German).
  • The Future is Open
  • Viitorul este deschis. O discuţie la gura sobei, trans. Simona Lobonţ and Florin Lobonţ, Bucuresti: Trei, 1997 (in Romanian).
• Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt: Vorträge und Aufsätze aus dreißig Jahren, Munchen/Zurich: Piper, 1984; 2nd edition, 1987.
  • În căutarea unei lumi mai bune, trans. Anca Rădulescu, Bucuresti: Humanitas, 1998.
• La lezione di questo secolo, intervista di Giancarlo Bosetti, Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 1992 (in Italian).
  • Lecția acestui secol, trans. Florin Dumitrescu, Bucuresti: Nemira, 1998 (in Romanian).

Literature

• Roberta Corvi, Invito al pensiero di Karl Popper, Gruppo Ugo Mursia Editore S.p.A., 1993.
  • An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper, trans. Patrick Camiller, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, IA.
• Bruce Caldwell, Recovering Popper. A review essay of Malachi Hacohen, Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Malachi Haim Hacohen, Karl Popper, The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Karl Popper, Unended Quest, original 1974; Rev. ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.

Bibliography

• compiled by citizendium.org
• compiled by Makoto KOGAWARA / Yoshihisa HAGIWARA
• compiled by Ralph Dumain

Links

• Stephen Thornton, "Karl Popper", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• http://www.tkpw.net/
• Resources in English and Japanesse