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The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German original, titled Logik der Forschung.
Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA [4] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British [5] philosopher, academic and social commentator. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific ...
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography is a 1976 book by the philosopher Karl Popper. [1]The work first appeared with the title "Autobiography of Karl Popper" in The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1974) from the Library of Living Philosophers series.
Karl Popper considered demarcation as a major problem of the philosophy of science. Popper articulates the problem of demarcation as: Popper articulates the problem of demarcation as: The problem of finding a criterion which would enable us to distinguish between the empirical sciences on the one hand, and mathematics and logic as well as ...
Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at and understanding reality, developed by the British philosopher Karl Popper in many lectures and books, for example "Objective Knowledge - An Evolutionary Approach" (1972) and "The Self And Its Brain" (1977). Popper's theory involves three interacting worlds, called world 1, world 2 and world 3. [1]
The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality is a 1994 book by the philosopher Karl Popper. [1]The book is a collection of papers "prepared on different occasions as lectures for non-specialist audiences" (p. x).
The principle of rationality (or rationality principle) was coined by Karl R. Popper in his Harvard Lecture of 1963, and published in his book Myth of Framework. [1] It is related to what he called the 'logic of the situation' in an Economica article of 1944/1945, published later in his book The Poverty of Historicism. [2]
This problem was central to the philosophy of Karl Popper, largely because Popper was among the first to affirm that truth is the aim of scientific inquiry while acknowledging that most of the greatest scientific theories in the history of science are, strictly speaking, false. If this long string of purportedly false theories is to constitute ...