Karl popper

Karl Popper

By TJFloyd
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    Birth/Death

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    First few books

    Karl Popper's first book was "The Problem of Induction" written in 1930. It's known that Popper drastically reorganized his early work and later released "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", followed by "Fundamental Contradiction of Positivism". In 1932 he completes "The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge".
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    Another round of books written

    The year of 1943 Popper finishes "The Open Society and Its Enemies". "The Poverty of Historicism" was completed and published in 1944. "The Open Society" was later published and released in 1945. An Introduction to the thoughts of Karl Popper by Roberta Corvi, and Patrick Camiller (December, 1996)
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    Karl Popper's "Philosophy of Science: a Personal Report"

    1951 Popper resumes work on a book that will be called Postscript: Twenty Years After. He summarizes his ideas on the philosophy of science at a lecture in Cambridge: "Philosophy of Science: a Personal Report".
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    Karl Popper's "Philosophy of Science: a Personal Report" continued.

    Popper follows three steps to breakthrough to his philosophy. They are:
    1. He shifts the focus of his work from the psychology of knowledge to the theory of knowledge. He is interested in the logical status of natural laws.
    2. He distinguishes between strictly universal statements and numerical universal statements
    3. He solves the problem of induction.
    Karl Popper's Philosophical Breakthrough*
    Stefano Gattei (October, 2004)

  • John Maynard Smith-Karl Popper and the Philosophy of Science (99/102)

    John Maynard Smith-Karl Popper and the Philosophy of Science (99/102)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDVMTvtgK6c