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Patroller of the stratosphere of ideas. (Philosophy & Ideas).(Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945 )
KARL POPPER almost came to the University of Sydney in 1945. John Anderson invited him to join the staff in Philosophy but Popper delayed his decision in the hope of an offer from the London School of Economics. When that offer came he withdrew his application for Sydney and so Professor Anderson was spared the confrontation with an ego equal in size to his own.
Popper died in 1994 at the age of ninety-two, and Malachi Hacohen's Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945 (Cambridge University Press) is the first comprehensive book to appear on his life and work. Hacohen, a historian based at Duke University, has charted the evolution of Popper's thinking with ...
- Karl Popper's theory of science and econometrics: the rise and decline of...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues Redman, Deborah A. March 1, 1994 700+ words
...Open Court, 1974a. Karl Popper is, in general...that component of Popper's theory of science...introduced economists to Karl Popper's ideas in 1938...Economic Theory, Popper seems to have been...Consequently, Poppers influence on econometrics...
- Karl Popper: a memoir.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Watkins, John March 22, 1997 700+ words
Karl Popper was born in Vienna on July 28, 1902...were eventually filling the New Theatre. Popper said in his autobiography that LSE in those...marvelous institution. But would it make Karl Popper a professor? That he was worthy of a chair...
- Ian Jarvie and Sandra Pralong, eds. Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years:...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Paden, Roger January 1, 2004 700+ words
...Jarvie and Sandra Pralong, eds. Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Karl Popper. London: Routledge, 2003. xx...example of whistling in the dark. Is Karl Popper still relevant? Does his Open Society...
- Karl Popper -- The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review April 1, 2001 700+ words
Karl Popper -- The Formative Years, 1902-1945...elsewhere.) This book seeks to restore Popper to the Jewish intellectual world of 'fin...the Habsburg capital. To the author, Karl Popper was not only a product of pre-1933 Vienna...
- Hacohen, Malachi Haim. Karl Popper, The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics...
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Culver, Keith March 1, 2002 700+ words
...95--Hacohen's biography of Popper arrives with the usual effusive praise...understanding of the legacy of Sir Karl Popper requires that we understand his roots...biography is much less revealing of Popper the man, and much more revealing...
- Obituary: Professor Sir Karl Popper
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ROM HARRE September 19, 1994 700+ words
...edited by W.W. Bartley) 1982-83, A Pocket Popper 1983, Popper Selections 1985, A World of Propensities 1990; married...Henninger (died 1985); died Croydon 17 September 1994. KARL POPPER was one of the most widely read philosophers of the...
- Karl Popper, critical rationalist.(modern philosopher)
- Magazine article from: National Review Glasner, David December 25, 1995 700+ words
...know that what we know is so? Sir Karl Popper's startling solution to that problem...Despite its theoretical character, Popper's work profoundly affected how...statements have none. Here is where Karl Popper enters the story, for in The Logic...
- The Philosopher's Apprentice: In Karl Popper's Workshop.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Chiariello, Michael March 1, 1996 700+ words
...Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper, volume 5. Edited by Kurt Salamun...p. ix) of his teacher, Sir Karl Popper, who, he claims, is "the greatest...This account of his studies under Popper applies the idea that criticism is...