POPPER, Karl
- Era: 1902 - 1994
- Location: Austria United Kingdom
- Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY
A family history which was grandparentally Jewish and parentally Lutheran was no guarantee of safety: he spent 9 years in New Zealand before settling in the UK. He was a strong advocate of the need for evidential grounding of belief system or philosophy of life – it need not be empirically proven, but it must be capable of passing the ‘falsifiability test’. Nazism failed this test, but so did any other ‘utopian’ approach – Marxism, Psychoananalysis and any Fundamentalism. Instead any properly human society must be liberally open to a plurality of views.
Life
- Entry on Popper in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Popper and critical rationalism
- Karl Popper, the enemy of certainty
- Karl Popper and free will
- Natural selection and the emergence of mind
- Popper's theory of falsification
- On 'The Open Society and its Enemies'
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