Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy". In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made 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. (Wikipedia).
Karl Popper on Definitions (1974)
A version of an upload from the previous channel. It comes from a 1974 interview with Popper. The translation is my own. For more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7Ju
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Karl Popper on Science & Absolute Truth (1974)
A version of an upload from the previous channel. It comes from a 1974 interview with Popper. The translation is my own. For more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7Ju
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Karl Popper and Induction duke it out. Who will win? This is something I put together awhile back and originally uploaded on the previous channel and always quite liked. I think it succinctly illustrates some of the underlying problems with Popper's philosophy of science and why it doesn't
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Karl Popper on What Philosophy Isn't & Philosophical Prejudices
Just another re-upload from the previous channel. The translation is my own. Details will be added later. More Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc #Phil
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Karl Popper on Science & Fallibilism (1971)
A short clip of Karl Popper discussing his famous falsifiability criterion of the demarcation between science and non-science, and how he partly came to it, as well as his fallibilism. This is from a 1971 discussion with John Eccles and the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders as the moderator. T
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Bryan Magee on Karl Popper (1999)
Just another re-upload from the previous channel that I put together awhile ago. The clips of Bryan Magee come from his "Confessions of a Philosopher". The clips of Popper come from various documentaries and interviews. More details will be added at a later time. More Popper: https://www.y
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Karl Popper on the Open Society (1974)
A short of clip of Karl Popper discussing the Open Society from a 1974 interview. The translation is mine. For more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc
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Karl Popper on Socrates vs Plato (1979)
A short clip of Karl Popper discussing his interpretation of Socrates and Plato, particularly regarding knowledge and the state. He touches specifically on the Socratic paradox about ignorance: i.e. knowledge of our own lack of knowledge, at least when it comes to matters of importance (e.
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Karl Popper on the Myth of the Standpoint (1990)
Karl Popper gives a talk on relativism called the Myth of the Standpoint. The translation is my own. Details will be added at a later date. More Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o #Philosophy #Popper #Relativism
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Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream. Karl Popper observed these developments firsthand and came to draw a disti
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Karl Popper on Tolerance & Intellectual Responsibility (1981 Clips)
A few clips of Karl Popper discussing, among other things, tolerance (including the famous paradox of tolerance), relativism and how it differs from Popper's own view which he refers to here as critical pluralism. He also touches on skepticism, scientific knowledge, and some of the ethical
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Includes ideas of scientists centuries before the scientific revolution, such as Ibn al-Haytham, as well as the ideas of modern philosophers of science such as Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. My Patreon page is at https://www.patreon.com/EugeneK
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