Karl Popper

Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy".In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Popper has received more than 2,566,471 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Karl Popper is the 47th most popular philosopher (up from 48th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Austria (up from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Philosopher.

Karl Popper is most famous for his idea of falsification. He argued that for a theory to be scientific, it must be falsifiable, or capable of being proven false.