Karl Popper
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Austrian person
British person
epistemologist
human
philosopher
philosopher of science
political philosopher
Karl Popper was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his theory of falsifiability as the demarcation criterion between science and non-science.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl Popper canonical | 72 |
| Karl R. Popper | 2 |
| Popper | 2 |
| Karl Raimund Popper | 1 |
| critical rationalism | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
Austrian person
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British person ⓘ epistemologist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ philosopher of science ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Vienna ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lippincott Award
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Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ⓘ
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Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
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| birthDate | 1902-07-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
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Austria-Hungary
Vienna ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Austria
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1994-09-17 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Karl Bühler ⓘ |
| education | University of Vienna ⓘ |
| employer |
London School of Economics
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University of Canterbury ⓘ University of London ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish descent ⓘ |
| familyName |
Karl Popper
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Popper
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| fieldOfWork |
epistemology
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logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| fullName |
Karl Popper
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Karl Raimund Popper
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| givenName | Karl ⓘ |
| influenced |
Alan Musgrave
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David Deutsch ⓘ George Soros ⓘ Hans Albert ⓘ Imre Lakatos ⓘ John W. N. Watkins ⓘ Paul Feyerabend ⓘ Thomas Kuhn ⓘ William W. Bartley ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Albert Einstein
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Bertrand Russell ⓘ David Hume ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Vienna Circle ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conjectures and refutations model of scientific progress
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critical rationalism ⓘ critique of historicism ⓘ defense of open society ⓘ falsificationism ⓘ problem of demarcation ⓘ theory of falsifiability ⓘ |
| language |
English
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German ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
demarcation problem
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induction ⓘ political liberalism ⓘ scientific method ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1930 ⓘ |
| name | Karl Popper self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Conjectures and Refutations
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Objective Knowledge ⓘ The Logic of Scientific Discovery ⓘ The Open Society and Its Enemies ⓘ The Poverty of Historicism ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
analytic philosophy
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critical rationalism
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| positionHeld | Professor of Logic and Scientific Method ⓘ |
| religion | agnosticism ⓘ |
| residence |
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Christchurch
London, England ⓘ
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London
Vienna ⓘ |
| spouse | Josefine Anna Henninger ⓘ |
| theory |
conjectures and refutations model of knowledge growth
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falsifiability as demarcation criterion between science and non-science ⓘ three worlds ontology ⓘ |
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