Karl Popper

Also known as Karl Raimund Popper Sir, Karl Raimund, Sir Popper, Sir Karl Raimund Popper

Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher famous for developing falsificationism, a theory about how science works based on the idea that scientific claims should be testable and potentially provable wrong. He is also known for criticizing Plato, Hegel, and Marx as defenders of totalitarianism, and for promoting the concept of an "open society" as an alternative to their views.

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: Vienna
Place of death: Kenley
Occupation: teacher
Educated at: University of Vienna
Employer: University of London
Languages spoken: German
Academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor: Moritz Schlick
Doctoral student: Charles Leonard Hamblin
Field of work: quantum mechanics
Movement: liberalism
Image: Karl Popper.jpg
Residence: Vienna

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student: Alan Musgrave
member of: National Academy of Sciences
Commons category: Karl Popper
date of birth: 1902-07-28
date of death: 1994-09-17
birth name: Karl Raimund Popper
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name in native language: Karl Raimund Popper
ethnic group: Jewish people
writing language: German
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influenced by: Hans Vaihinger
professorship: academician
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Popper bust in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism.

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