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| {{Short description|Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902–1994)}}
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| {{Infobox philosopher
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| | honorific_prefix = Sir
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| | name = Karl Popper
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| | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS|FBA|size=100%}}
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| | image = Karl Popper.jpg
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| | caption = Popper in the 1980s
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| | birth_name = Karl Raimund Popper
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| | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|7|28|df=yes}}
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| | birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
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| | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1994|9|17|1902|7|28|df=yes}}}}
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| | death_place = London, England
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| | citizenship = {{ubl|Austria|United Kingdom (from 1945)}}
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| | era = [[20th-century philosophy]]
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| | region = [[Western philosophy]]
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| | school_tradition = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}
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| |[[Analytic philosophy]]
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| |[[Critical rationalism]]
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| |[[Würzburg School]]{{sfn|IEP Critical rationalism}}
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| |[[Metaphysical realism]]<ref name=SEP>{{harvnb|Thornton|2015}} : "Popper professes to be anti-conventionalist, and his commitment to the correspondence theory of truth places him firmly within the realist's camp".</ref>
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| |[[Correspondence theory of truth]]<ref name=SEP/>
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| |[[Interactionism (philosophy of mind)|Interactionism]]
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| |Liberalism{{sfn|IEP Popper political}}
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| | main_interests = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}
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| |[[Epistemology]]
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| |[[Rationality]]
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| |[[Philosophy of science]]
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| |[[Logic]]
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| |[[Social philosophy|Social]] and [[political philosophy]]
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| |[[Metaphysics]]
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| |[[Philosophy of mind]]
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| |[[Origin of life]]
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| |[[Interpretations of quantum mechanics]]
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| | alma_mater = [[University of Vienna]] (PhD, 1928)
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| | institutions = {{plainlist|
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| * [[Canterbury University College]]
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| * [[London School of Economics]]
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| * [[King's College London]]
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| * [[Darwin College, Cambridge]]}}
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| | notable_ideas = {{collapsible list|{{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}
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| |[[Bold hypothesis]]
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| |Critical rationalism
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| |[[Falsifiability]]
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| |Criticism of [[Dogmatic falsificationism|dogmatic]]/[[naive falsificationism]]
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| |[[Demarcation problem]]
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| |Evolutionary [[trial and error]] view of the [[growth of knowledge]]
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| |[[Propensity]] interpretation
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| |[[Open society]]
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| |[[Popper's three worlds]]
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| |Modified [[essentialism]]
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| |Criticism of [[justificationism]]
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| |Axiomatization of [[probability]]
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| |[[Popper's experiment]]
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| |Active [[Darwinism]]
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| |Spearhead model of [[evolution]]
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| |[[Criticism of psychoanalysis]]
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| |[[Situational logic]]
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| |[[Objective hermeneutics]]
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| |The [[paradox of tolerance]]
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| |Critical dualism (of facts and standards)
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| |[[Logic of scientific discovery]]
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| |Experimental [[corroboration]] as an indicator of [[verisimilitude]]/[[truthlikeness]]
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| |''Basissatz'' ([[basic statement]])
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| |The [[historicism]]–[[historism]] distinction
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| |[[Negative utilitarianism]]
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| |[[Philosophy of mathematics#Popper's two senses of number statements|Popper's two senses of number statements]]
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| |[[The Myth of the Framework|The "Myth of the Framework"]]
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| }}
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| |title={{nobold|''See list''}}
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| | influences = {{hlist|[[Socrates]]|[[Aristotle]]|[[René Descartes|Descartes]]{{sfn|Britannica Cartesianism}}|[[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]|[[Arthur Schopenhauer|Schopenhauer]]|[[Jakob Friedrich Fries|Fries]]|[[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]]<ref>Hacohen, Malachi Haim (2000). ''Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna''. Cambridge University Press. pp. 83–85.</ref>|[[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]|[[Vienna Circle]]|[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]|[[Alfred Tarski|Tarski]]|[[Otto Selz|Selz]]|[[Bertrand Russell|Russell]]|[[Donald T. Campbell|Campbell]]|[[Edmund Burke|Burke]]|[[John Stuart Mill|Mill]]|[[David Hume|Hume]]|[[Charles Sanders Peirce|Peirce]]| [[Gottlob Frege|Frege]]|[[Bernard Bolzano|Bolzano]]|[[Edmund Husserl|Husserl]]|[[Günter Wächtershäuser|Wächtershäuser]]|[[Josef Popper-Lynkeus|Popper-Lynkeus]]}}
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| | influenced = {{hlist|[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]|[[Milton Friedman|Friedman]]|[[Imre Lakatos|Lakatos]]|[[Paul Feyerabend|Feyerabend]]|[[George Soros|Soros]]|[[David Miller (philosopher)|Miller]]|[[William Warren Bartley|Bartley]]|[[Mark Rutte|Rutte]]|[[Ernst Gombrich|Gombrich]]|[[Ian Jarvie|Jarvie]]|[[Paul Levinson|Levinson]]|[[Peter Munz|Munz]]|[[Bryan Magee|Magee]]|[[Konrad Lorenz|Lorenz]]|[[Jeremy Shearmur|Shearmur]]|[[Peter Medawar|Medawar]]|[[Hans Albert|Albert]]|[[Ernest Gellner|Gellner]]|[[Frits Bolkestein|Bolkestein]]|[[Thomas Kuhn|Kuhn]]<ref>[[Thomas S. Kuhn]] (1970). ''[[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]''. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (2nd ed.). p. 146.</ref>|[[Jose Guilherme Merquior|Merquior]]|[[Helmut Schmidt|Schmidt]]|[[Michael Redhead|Redhead]]<ref>[[Michael Redhead]] (1996). ''From Physics to Metaphysics''. Cambridge University Press. p. 15.</ref>|[[Donald A. Gillies|Gillies]]|[[David Deutsch|Deutsch]]|[[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|Eccles]]|[[Roger Penrose|Penrose]]<ref>Roger Penrose (1994). ''[[Shadows of the Mind]]''. Oxford University Press.</ref>}}
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| | thesis_title = Zur Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie {{noitalic|(}}On Questions of Method in the Psychology of Thinking{{noitalic|)}}
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| | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/312029829
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| | thesis_year = 1928
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| | doctoral_advisor = {{plainlist|
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| * [[Karl Ludwig Bühler]]
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| * [[Moritz Schlick]]}}
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| | doctoral_students = {{plainlist|
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| * [[Joseph Agassi]]
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| * [[Charles Leonard Hamblin]]
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| * [[A. I. Sabra]]}}
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| | notable_students = {{plainlist| | |
| * [[Donald A. Gillies]]
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| * [[John W. N. Watkins]]}}
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| | relatives = [[Josef Popper-Lynkeus]] (uncle)
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| | awards = [[Knight Bachelor]] (1965)
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| }}
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| [[File:Karl Popper (1902-1994), Nr. 104 bust (bronce) in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna-2485.jpg|thumb|upright|Popper bust in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna]] | | [[File:Karl Popper (1902-1994), Nr. 104 bust (bronce) in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna-2485.jpg|thumb|upright|Popper bust in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna]] |
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