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 ...

Sir Karl Popper (1902–94) is certainly among the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century, as well as an important critic of Marxism, but his reputation is still under ...

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 ...

Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly / עיון: רבעון פילוסופי, כרך כ"ג‎, חוברת ב'/ד‎' (ניסן תשל"ב-תשרי תשל"ג), pp. 82-99 (18 pages) The notion of "Historicism" became known mainly in 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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. To unpack these a bit, Karl Popper was the philosopher of science who I ...