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Op de bres voor de rede: de filosofie van Karl Popper in historisch perspectief

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Abstract

A plea for reason. Karl Popper’s philosophy from a historical point of view— Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) spent the first 33 years of his life in the city of Vienna, which was particularly at that time the main focus of Central-European culture and politics. His philosophy of science and political theory evolved in an intellectual climate that was dominated by German and Austrian thinkers. Already at a youthful age he joined the Austrian monists and plaid an active part in the socialist schoolreform movement. According to his autobiography Unended Quest,Popper gained a major scientific and political experience in 1919 under the influence of Albert Einstein’s new cosmology as well as through Marxist political practice. He waged his real war against logical positivism in the thirties, as he joined issue with the philoso¬ phers of science of the well-known Vienna Circle. Though Popper pleaded explicitly for a special method of ’Verstehen’ in the social sciences, the reception of his methodology still takes place mainly with reference to the growth of knowledge in the natural sciences as reconstructed in The logic of scientific discovery.

How to Cite:

Heyt, F., (1996) “Op de bres voor de rede: de filosofie van Karl Popper in historisch perspectief”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 41(1), 1–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95222