Foreign thinker
Karl Popper
Karl PopperPhilosophyAustrian-British1902–1994
Revolutions rarely bring what they promise, and usually lead to a despotism worse than the one they overthrew.
Life and Thought
Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and one of the most important philosophers of science in the twentieth century. He is known for the theory of falsifiability and the concept of the open society, and his works have had a wide-ranging influence on the philosophy of science and political thought.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures20 titles
Logic of Research / Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Poverty of Historicism
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
On Clouds and Clocks
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
The Endless Search: An Intellectual Autobiography
The Self and Its Brain
The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism
Realism and the Aim of Science
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics
Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge
The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
Knowledge and the Mind-Body Problem
All Life is Problem Solving
After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings
The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
The Future Is Open: Joint Conversations and Writings
The Lesson of This Century
Utopia and Violence: Essays and Conversations by Karl Popper
