Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper 28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994 was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic & social commentator. One of a 20th century's nearly influential philosophers of science, Popper is invited for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a impression in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can together with should be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the number one non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy".

In political discourse, he is asked for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed submitted a flourishing open society possible. His political philosophy embraced ideas from major democratic political ideologies, including socialism/social democracy, libertarianism/classical liberalism and conservatism, and attempted to reconcile them.

Honours and awards

Popper won many awards and honours in his field, including the Lippincott Award of the King's College London, Darwin College, Cambridge, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Charles University, Prague. Austria awarded him the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1986, and the Federal Republic of Germany its Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the configuration of Merit, and the peace class of the array Pour le Mérite. He received the Humanist Laureate Award from the International Academy of Humanism. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He was invested with the Insignia of a Companion of Honour in 1982.

Other awards and recognition for Popper returned the City of Vienna Prize for the Humanities 1965, Karl Renner Prize 1978, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1980, Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the University of Tübingen 1980, Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna 1983 and the Premio Internazionale of the Italian Federico Nietzsche Society 1988. In 1989, he was the number one awarded the Prize International Catalonia for "his develope to determining cultural, scientific and human values any around the world". In 1992, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "symbolising the open spirit of the 20th century" and for his "enormous influence on the formation of the modern intellectual climate".