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Karl Popper

Karl Popper was an influential 20th century philosopher of science. [1] He developed the principle of falsifiability, which holds that for a theory to be considered scientific it must be capable of being proven false. [2] Popper is known for works like The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies, in which he analyzed scientific thinking and investigated ideas that undermine freedom and tolerance. [3]

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Karl Popper

Karl Popper was an influential 20th century philosopher of science. [1] He developed the principle of falsifiability, which holds that for a theory to be considered scientific it must be capable of being proven false. [2] Popper is known for works like The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies, in which he analyzed scientific thinking and investigated ideas that undermine freedom and tolerance. [3]

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Karl popper

One of the most influential philosophers of science of


the 20th century

Conducted by: (Robert Koch


group)
Sherouk Safwat, Aya Abdallah,
Maryam Elahmady
Austrian-born British Philosopher Biography
Attended lectures by Einstein
Taught philosophy at the University of Canterbury in
New Zealand and was a professor at the London School
of Economics where he founded the Department of
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in 1946, and
there lectured and influenced both Imre Lakatos and
Paul Feyerabend
Main interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of science,
Logic, Social and political philosophy, Metaphysics,
Philosophy of mind
Awards: 1965 - City of Vienna Prize for the Humanities
1978 - Karl Renner Prize
1980 - Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
1981 - Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize
1983 - Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna
1988 - the Premio Internazionale of the Italian
Federico Nietzsche Society
1902 1994
Popper held a view of science that is quite different to
the traditional or common sense view
So lets get to know more about his marvelous,
astounding and remarkable works!

It is a part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the
correction of our mistakes
Publicatio
ns
Karl Popper wrote
more than 25 books
about theories of his
own and other topics,
both scientific and non-
scientific; heres the
most popular of each
category

The Logic of Scientific Discovery The Open Society and its Enemies
(1959) is an analysis of scientific (1945) is Poppers systematic
thinking through his particular investigation of some powerful
view of epistemology. This book ideas which undermine our
revolutionized contemporary freedoms and the traditions of
thinking about science and rationality and tolerance,
knowledge especially during social and
Cosmologi
cal
pluralism
Popper proposed falsification as a way to
determine if a theory is scientific. If a
theory is falsifiable then it is scientific.
A good hypothesis is one that is
falsifiable.
Falsifiabili The hypothesis must be so stated that if
unsupported it is rejected (or falsified )
ty so it cannot be proven until disconfirmed.
Thus, it must specify the conditions
under which it is rejected.
Example: A test would disprove gravity if
we let go of an object and it did not
fall.
Here is a video for
more clarification :
https://youtu.be/-
X8Xfl0JdTQ
Popper and Kuhn are two important philosophers
that have opposing views. Popper who is a realist,
Karl and
tellsclaims that
the real andscience
Popper Vs. make the people to
understand the
Thomas world. On the other
hand there is Kuhn.
Kuhn He seems as an anti-
realist but has some
realist views too. His
realistic side is that;
he accepts only the
And finally thousand slides wont be enough to
mention all of his startling works !

THANK YOU.
References
http://socialsciences.in/article/popper-vs-kuhn-i
https://www.slideshare.net/aprichelle/lesson-4-a2?qi
d=64a60910-0780-46ea-8d76-6e846c80e92c&v=&b=&from_se
arch=8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper

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