Karl Popper

Interview

• "Against Television" (London, 13/04/93)

Biography

Born in Vienna 20 July 1902, Karl Raimund Popper was attracted by many intellectual experiences (music, physics, mathematics, politics) and worked for a time at the Alfred Adler children's clinic. In 1928 he graduated in philosophy. After the Nazi occupation of Austria he emigrated to New Zealand where he taught at Canterbury University College of Christchurch.

In 1946 he became professor of logic and then of methodology at the London School of Economics. He left the LSE in 1969, after having taught, among others, Feyeraband and Lakatos. In the 1950 Popper was recognised for his research activities: he was named a member of the Royal Society and was knighted in 1965. Emeritus professor of the London School of Economics and Visiting Professor of many other universities, he died in September 1994.

Bibliography

A complete bibliography of Karl Popper can be found in T. E. HANSEN, Bibliography of the Writings of Karl Popper, in P. A. SCHILPP, The philosophy of K. Popper, La Salle, 1974. pp. 1199- 1287.

Among his principal works:

• The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934).
• The Open Society and its enemies (1945).
• The Poverty of Historicism (1957).
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959).
• Conjectures and refutations (1962).
• Objective Knowledge (1972).
• Unended Quest (1976).