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News: Winter 1994/95

Popper Dies

In September Sir Karl Popper died aged 92. Popper was one of the most influential thinkers this century on philosophy of science and political philosophy. His death comes in the midst of renewed interest in his work. The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been holding a series of public lectures on different aspects of Popper’s thought and it had been hoped that he would be well enough to attend one of them. In The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935) he criticised the traditional view that science progesses by induction and suggested that the mark of a scientific statement is that it has the potential to be falsified; that is, disproved by a contrary observation.

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