A rare collection of books by the renowned philosopher Sir Karl Popper has fetched £13,000 for Oxfam, after being donated to ...

S ir 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 ...

According to Malachi Haim Hacohen, an associate professor of European intellectual history at Duke University and author of Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945 (Cambridge University Press ...

Karl Popper, who was a philosopher of science and -- according to Prof. Ulf Persson, "not a nice man" -- popularized the notion that science ought to be "falsifiable." In contrast to the more ...

I began to discern the paradox lurking at the heart of Karl Popper's career when, prior to interviewing him in 1992, I asked other philosophers about him. Queries of this kind usually elicit dull, ...

In addition to his day job running Japan's central bank, Haruhiko Kuroda has maintained a longtime interest in Karl Popper, the 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher of science.

Karl Popper proposed that the true purpose of democracy is not to select the best leaders but to facilitate the prompt and peaceful removal of obviously bad ones. Photo by Chris Young/CP.

A rare collection of books by the renowned philosopher Sir Karl Popper has fetched £13,000 for Oxfam, after being donated to one of the charity's shops. The 12-book collection, which included ...