The 1992 Laureates / Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Category / Philosophy (Philosophical thoughts of the 20th century)

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Karl Raimund Popper

U.K. / July 28, 1902-1994
Philosopher; Professor Emeritus, University of London

“A Philosopher Who Gave a Great Impact on the Intellectual World of Natural and Social Science by What He Calls Falsifiability Criterion and Advocated the Realization of Open Society Based on the "Critical Rationalism"”
A philosopher symbolizing the open spirit of the 20th century who has exerted an enormous influence on the formation of the modern intellectual climate, not only in the particular realm of philosophy, but also those of cultural and social sciences, and even that of natural science. He has continued to grasp unerringly the import of new modes of societal development and his "critical rationalism" presents the possibility of disproof as the distinguishing feature of scientific thinking.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1902
Born in Vienna, Austria
1922
Graduated from University of Vienna
1937
Fled to New Zealand
1946
Emigrated to England
1949
Professor (Logic and Scientific Method), School of Economics, University of London
1969
Professor Emeritus, School of Economics, University of London

AWARDS AND HONORS

1965
Prize for Geisteswissenschaften (Germany)
1965
Order of Companions of Honour
1966
Fellow of the International Academy for Philosophy of Science
1976
Fellow of the Royal Society
1989
Prize International Catalonia (Spain)

MAJOR WORKS

1934
Logik der Forschung
1945
The Open Society and Its Enemies
1963
Conjectures and Refutations
1972
Objective Knowledge
1977
The Self and Its Brain
1983
The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism
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