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- CROYDON, ENGLAND -- Sir Karl Popper, 92, a philosopher and prominent anti-Marxist whose views helped frame the ideals of Britain's conservative government in the 1980s, died Sept. 17 at a hospital in this London suburb. He had pneumonia, cancer and kidney failure.
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An early adversary of Popper's critical rationalism, Karl-Otto Apel attempted a comprehensive refutation of Popper's philosophy. In Transformation der Philosophie (1973), Apel charged Popper with being guilty of, amongst other things, a pragmatic contradiction.
Sep 13, 2024 · In full: Sir Karl Raimund Popper. Born: July 28, 1902, Vienna, Austria. Died: September 17, 1994, Croydon, Greater London, England (aged 92) Notable Works: “The Logic of Scientific Discovery” Subjects Of Study: scientific method. criterion of falsifiability. induction.
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Nov 13, 1997 · Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century. He was also a social and political philosopher of considerable stature, a self-professed critical-rationalist, a dedicated opponent of all forms of scepticism and relativism in science and in human affairs generally and a committed ...
Sep 18, 1994 · Sir Karl Popper, a philosopher who was a defender of democratic systems of government, died today in a hospital here. He was 92. He died of complications of cancer, pneumonia and kidney...
Sep 2, 2016 · Karl Popper died, age 92, of cancer on September 17, 1994 in Kenley, England, UK. He was buried beside his wife in Vienna’s Lainzer Friedhof Cemetery. The couple had no children.
Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Popper bust in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna. In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible.
Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to debates concerning general scientific methodology and theory choice, the demarcation of science from non-science, the nature of probability and quantum mechanics, and the methodology of the social sciences.
