In the soft light of an antipodean afternoon, Graham Macdonald is careful to impress his academic orientation upon a visitor. Mr. Macdonald is, as he says, director of the department of philosophy and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The world has been paying lots of attention ...

Great progress has been achieved in the field of ethics during the last fifty years, Karl R. Popper, professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London, declared yesterday afternoon ...

One of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, Sir Karl Popper founded the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in 1946. Critical rationalism was the cornerstone not only of his ...

Whereas the Reagan administration in the 1980s could do little to help Iranians (Ronald Reagan’s determined efforts to engage the clerical regime over the hostages in Lebanon certainly didn’t ...

In addition to his day job running Japan's central bank, Haruhiko Kuroda has maintained a longtime interest in Karl Popper, the 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher of science. He wrote the ...

I began to discern the paradox lurking at the heart of Karl Popper's career when, prior to interviewing him in 1992, I asked other philosophers about him. Queries of this kind usually elicit dull, ...

Discoverer of the blood groups, Karl Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. His father, Leopold Landsteiner, a doctor of law, died when Karl was six years old. His mother brought him up.