Karl Popper
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FBA, FRS
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. Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. If the outcome of an experiment contradicts the theory, one should refrain from ad hoc manoeuvres that evade the contradiction merely by making it less falsifiable. Popper is also known for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy". In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he came to believe made a…more
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Books with Karl Popper
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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2007
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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2012
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
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2001
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Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide
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2001
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
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2013
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Education: A Very Short Introduction
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2013
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Karl Popper
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1973
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Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
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2000
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Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems
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1980
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Karl Popper
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2010
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