Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty) Sir Karl Popper (1902–94) is certainly among the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century, as well as ...

Popper challenged Wittgenstein head on: Philosophy, he said, addresses genuine problems and not, as Wittgenstein would have it, “puzzles” that disappear when proper mental hygiene clears up our ...

In the soft light of an antipodean afternoon, Graham Macdonald is careful to impress his academic orientation upon a visitor. Mr. Macdonald is, as he says, director of the department of philosophy and ...

Popper emphasized that he had known all the titans of twentieth-century science: Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg. Popper blamed Bohr, whom he knew “very well,” for having introduced subjectivism ...

Graham Oddie (PhD, London, 1979) began studying philosophy at the University of Otago (New Zealand). While Oddie was an undergraduate at Otago, Sir Karl Popper came for a year as a Visiting Professor.

In this talk, the 8th Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse will discuss how the philosophical works of Karl Popper have informed the practice of his own scientific research activities, ...

Sir Karl Popper (1902–94) is certainly among the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century, as well as an important critic of Marxism, but his reputation is still under ...