Karl Popper

Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.

Educated at the University of Vienna, Popper emigrated to New Zealand in 1937, teaching at the University of New Zealand in Christchurch and then to England in 1945, where he was granted British citizenship and lived for the remainder of his life. He lectured in Philosophy at University College Cambridge (1937-45) and in 1969 was appointed an Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. He has held a variety of positions and lectured at Universities throughout Europe and America [1].

Books

Monographs

• Logik der Forschung: zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft, Vienna: Springer, 1935, 248 pp, PDF. (German)
  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson, 1959, PDF. (English)
  • A lógica da pesquisa científica, trans. Leônidas Hegenberg, São Paulo: Editora Cultrix, 1972, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Logica della scoperta scientifica, trans. Mario Trinchero, Torino: Einaudi, 1974, PDF. (Italian)
  • Logica cercetării, trans. Mircea Flonta, Alexandru Surdu and Erwin Tivig, Bucharest: Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1981, PDF. (Romanian)

• Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie [1930-33], ed. Troels Eggers Hansen, Tübingen: Mohr, 1979. (German)
  • The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge, trans. A. Pickel, London: Routledge, 2007. (English)

• Das Elend des Historizismus [1936], 1944-45; 1957. (German)
  • Misère de l'historicisme, Paris: Plon, 1956. (French)
  • The Poverty of Historicism, Routledge, 1957, xiv+166 pp; 2nd ed., 1961, [PDF. (English)
  • La miseria del historicismo, trans. Pedro Schwartz, Madrid: Taurus Ediciones, 1961; Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1972; 1999; 2006, PDF. (Spanish)
  • A Miseria do historicismo, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1980, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Mizeria istoricismului, trans. Dan Suciu and Adela Zamfir, Bucharest: All, 1996, PDF. (Romanian)

• The Open Society and its Enemies, 2 vols., Routledge, 1945, Log. (English)

• Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, London: Routledge, 1962, PDF. (English)
  • Conjecturi şi infirmări: creşterea cunoaşterii ştiinţifice, trans. Constantin Stoenescu, Dragan Stoianovici and Florin Lobonţ, Bucharest: Trei, 2001, PDF. (Romanian)

• Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, PDF. Excerpt (English)
  • Objektive Erkenntnis, trans. Hermann Vetter, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1973. (German)

• Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography, London: Fontana, 1976; rev.ed., Routledge, 2002. (English)
  • Ausgangspunkte. Meine intellektuelle Entwicklung, trans. Friedrich Griese and Karl Popper, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1979. (German)

• with J.C. Eccles, The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism, London: Springer International, 1977. (English)
  • Das Ich und sein Gehirn, trans. Angela Hartung, Munich: Piper, 1982. (German)

• The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism, ed. W.W. Bartley III, London: Hutchinson, 1982. Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery. (English)

• Realism and the Aim of Science [1956-57], ed. W.W. Bartley III, London: Hutchinson, 1983. (English)

• Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt: Vorträge und Aufsätze aus dreißig Jahren, Munich/Zurich: Piper, 1984; 2nd ed., 1987. (German)
  • În căutarea unei lumi mai bune, trans. Anca Rădulescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1998. (Romanian)

• with Konrad Lorenz, Die Zukunft ist offen, 1985. (German)
  • Viitorul este deschis. O discuţie la gura sobei, trans. Simona Lobonţ and Florin Lobonţ, Bucharest: Trei, 1997. (Romanian)

• Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defense of Interaction, ed. M.A. Notturno, London: Routledge, 1994. Based upon lectures delivered by the author at Emory University in 1969. (English)
  • Cunoaşterea şi problema raportului corp-minte. O pledoarie pentru interacţionism, trans. Florin Lobonţ, Bucharest: Trei, 1997. (Romanian)
  • Wissen und das Leib-Seele-Problem: eine Verteidigung der Interaktionstheorie, trans. & ed. Hans-Joachim Niemann, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. (German)

Lectures

• A World of Propensities, Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990, ix+51 pp., PDF. Expanded versions of two lectures given in 1988 and 1989.(English)

• The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, ed. M.A. Notturno, London: Routledge, 1994. (English)

• Frühe Schriften, ed. Troels Eggers Hansen, 2006. (German)

• After The Open Society, eds. Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner, 2008. (English)

Interviews

• with Giancarlo Bosetti, La lezione di questo secolo, Venice: Marsilio, 1992. Interview. (Italian)
  • Lecția acestui secol, trans. Florin Dumitrescu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1998. (Romanian)

Bibliography

• compiled by Makoto Kogawara and Yoshihisa Hagiwara
• compiled by Ralph Dumain
• at Citizendium.org

Literature

• David Miller (ed.), A Pocket, Fontana Press, 1987, PDF. (English)

• Roberta Corvi, Invito al pensiero di Karl Popper, Gruppo Ugo Mursia Editore S.p.A., 1993. (Spanish)
  • An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper, trans. Patrick Camiller, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, IA. (English)

• Malachi Haim Hacohen, Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, Cambridge University Press, 2000. (English) Review: Caldwell (2005).

• Stephen Thornton, "Karl Popper", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013. (English)

Links

• The Karl Popper Web
• Open Universe of the Japan Popper Society