Author

Books by Karl Popper

Karl Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Vienna, he fled Austria after the Anschluss and eventually settled in London, where he taught at the London School of Economics. He is best known for his philosophy of science, centered on the principle of falsifiability, developed in The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), and for his political philosophy, laid out in The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicism (1957). His work influenced generations of scientists, economists, and political theorists.