Popper, Karl

Popper, Karl
   b. 1902, Vienna (Austria); d. 1994
   Philosopher
   Karl Popper was chiefly a philosopher of science. His works include The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935), The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), The Poverty of Historicism (1957), Conjectures and Refutations (1963) and Objective Knowledge (1972). Popper distinguishes between genuine science and ‘pseudoscience’. Whereas genuine scientific propositions are falsifiable in that they explicitly or implicitly specify the evidence which would refute them, pseudo-scientific propositions (such as many of those expounded in Marxism and Freudianism) are unfalsifiable in that no conceivable evidence constitutes their disconfirmation. Science develops in an evolutionary manner. While no theory can be proved, the ‘fittest’ survive rigorous attempts to falsify them. In his social and political philosophy, Popper provides a penetrating critique of totalitarianism and a stalwart defence of democracy.
   See also: philosophy; science
   ROD PATERSON

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