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Frank Tipler has argued that physics can explain immortality, though such arguments are not falsifiable and thus do not qualify, in Karl Popper's views, as science.
* Karl Popper Archive at LSE British Library This is a microfilm copy of the Stanford University Popper Archive of Popper's papers to whose catalogue a weblink is provided.
* Karl Popper Archive at University Library Klagenfurt, consists of Popper's Library and paper copies of the Popper Papers at The Hoover Institution Archive at Stanford, California
There are anomalies for all paradigms, Kuhn maintained, that are brushed away as acceptable levels of error, or simply ignored and not dealt with ( a principal argument Kuhn uses to reject Karl Popper's model of falsifiability as the key force involved in scientific change ).
Karl Popper's view that scientific hypotheses are never really confirmed,
* He is a great admirer of the philosopher Karl Popper, and contributed a foreword to the 1982 Festschrift in Popper's honor.
Thus, in the twentieth century this collapse was reinforced by Karl Popper's explication of the hypothetico-deductive model, where the hypothesis is considered to be just " a guess " ( in the spirit of Peirce ).
Stuart Mayper ( 1916 – 1997 ), who studied under Karl Popper, introduced Popper's principle of falsifiability into the seminar-workshops he led at the Institute starting in 1977.
A pioneer in the field, and inspired by Karl Popper's and Warren Weaver's works, Nobel prize economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek dedicated much of his work, from early to the late 20th century, to the study of complex phenomena, not constraining his work to human economies but venturing into other fields such as psychology, biology and cybernetics.
Though Nietzsche was critical of theories concerning what could not be observed, he believed that theories ought to be capable of being falsified: while arguing against what he held to be the negative influence of the Kantian noumenon in the philosophy and science of his day, Nietzsche roughly approximated the scientific philosopher Karl Popper's assertion that falsifiability was the basis of scientific knowledge:
* Joseph Agassi, an Israeli philosopher of science who developed Karl Popper's ideas
* Confirmation theory, in the philosophy of science, an extension by Donald A. Gillies of Karl Popper's theory of corroboration
Karl Raimund Popper's book Logik der Forschung was published in this collection.
Karl Popper's criticisms of utopian social pursuits in The Open Society and Its Enemies are markedly similar to Đilas ' views, which were nonetheless developed independently ( see note 6 to Chapter 18 of The Open Society and Its Enemies and related text ).
In Karl Popper's definition, found in his two-volume book The Open Society and Its Enemies, he defines an " open society " as one which ensures that political leaders can be overthrown without the need for bloodshed, as opposed to a " closed society ," in which a bloody revolution or coup d ' état is needed to change the leaders.
Billionaire investor and political activist George Soros, a disciple of Karl Popper, has argued that the sophisticated use of powerful techniques of deception borrowed from modern advertising and cognitive science by political operatives such as Frank Luntz and Karl Rove casts doubt on Popper's original conception of open society.
Unlike, for example, Karl Popper's informal inductive inference theory, however, Solomonoff's is mathematically rigorous.
For instance, Joshua Muravchik, on the basis of Karl Popper's definition of science as " the practice of experimentation, of hypothesis and test ," argued that " Owen and Fourier and their followers were the real ‘ scientific socialists .’ They hit upon the idea of socialism, and they tested it by attempting to form socialist communities.
In Karl Popper's philosophy of science, belief in a supernatural God is outside the natural domain of scientific investigation because all scientific hypotheses must be falsifiable in the natural world.
He was responsible for Karl Popper's invitation to Cambridge.
This work's importance was not noticed, as J. Trenn editor of the English edition published in 1979 writes, ' Fleck's pioneering monograph was published at almost the same time as Karl Popper's Logik der Forschung.
He first presented his notion of incommensurability in 1952 to Karl Popper's LSE seminar and to a gathering of illustrious Wittgensteinians ( Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, H. L. A.
Kraus ' influence is notable in Karl Popper ; while translation of scientific theories into verificationist terms had been a standard procedure in logical positivism for some time, Popper's criticism of several philosophers and scientists that failed to comply with his notion of the scientific method took a mocking quality reminiscent of the former.

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There were serious scientific objections to the process of natural selection as the key mechanism of evolution, including Karl von Nägeli's insistence that a trivial characteristic with no adaptive advantage could not be developed by selection.
At the insistence of USPD representatives the Council of People's Representatives appointed a " Nationalisation Committee ", among others with Karl Kautsky, Rudolf Hilferding and Otto Hue.
Allegations that Siegelman was prosecuted at the insistence of Bush-appointed officials at the Justice Department, as well as the insistence of Leura Canary, a U. S. Attorney in Montgomery whose husband was Alabama's top Republican operative and who had for years worked closely with Karl Rove, led federal courts to release the accused on bail.
At the insistence of his wife, Ottilie Lucia Kühler ( daughter of the Maschinentischler carpenter Karl Kühler of Vienna ), Martin moved the guitar shop in 1838 to Nazareth, Pennsylvania where it is still located.
She kills Anton, Karl and Johann, driven mostly by the ghostly insistence of Hans.

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In his philosophy of science, which has much in common with that of his good friend Karl Popper, Hayek was highly critical of what he termed scientism: a false understanding of the methods of science that has been mistakenly forced upon the social sciences, but that is contrary to the practices of genuine science.
After receiving a substantial inheritance upon his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Kummer.
Her brother, Marx's uncle Benjamin Philips ( 1830-1900 ), was a wealthy banker and industrialist, upon whom Karl and Jenny Marx would later often come to rely for loans while they were exiled in London.
Marxism – Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of an international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party presiding over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship of the proletariat.
* April 5 – Karl XII becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Karl XI.
He was born Jean Bernadotte, distinguished from a namesake brother by the addition of Baptiste and had the full name of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte by the time Karl also was added upon his Swedish adoption in 1810.
Building primarily upon the early works of Karl Marx, Fromm sought to re-emphasise the ideal of freedom, missing from most Soviet Marxism, and more frequently found in the writings of libertarian socialists and liberal theoreticians.
They were finally secularised in the 1803 German Mediatisation upon the territorial losses to France in the Treaty of Lunéville, except for the Mainz prince-archbishop and German archchancellor Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, who continued to rule as Prince of Aschaffenburg and Regensburg.
Other influences upon Derrida are Martin Heidegger, Plato, Søren Kierkegaard, Alexandre Kojève, Maurice Blanchot, Antonin Artaud, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Lévinas, Ferdinand de Saussure, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Claude Lévi-Strauss, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Stéphane Mallarmé.
His stepfather also made him heir to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810 and hence he technically succeeded as Grand Duke to Archbishop Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, the Prince-Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine, upon the latter's abdication in 1813.
Zachariae edited with Karl Joseph Mittermaier the Kritische Zeitschrift fur Rechtswissenschaft und Gesetzgebung des Auslandes, and the introduction which he wrote illustrates his wide reading and his constant desire for new light upon old problems.
According to the United States Department of the interior-Bureau of Land Management, in a letter from Mr William H. Richards, Director and Chief, Branch of Surveys, in his letter to Karl Starkweather dated April 29, 1954, he states that upon inspection of the tract books held by the Bureau: " Of interest to you personally are the notations of the CASH entries Nos.
The root of uniquely German geopolitik rests in the writings of Karl Ritter who first developed the organic conception of the state that would later be elaborated upon by Ratzel and accepted by Hausfhofer.
DNVP-politician Karl Helfferich in particular became the target of attacks, because he had just recently uttered a vitriolic attack upon Rathenau.
He gave lectures on such issues as " the woman's question " ( this was the era of the suffragist movement in the UK ) and upon Karl Marx.
In order to improve his financial position, he accepted early in 1786 the post of librarian to Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, the prince-elector and of archbishop of Mainz, who bestowed many important offices upon him and obtained his elevation to nobility from the emperor Leopold II.
Wilhelm Furtwängler called upon Karl Straube to see whether Schenker might be able to teach in Munich.
Wehler drew upon the modernization theory of Max Weber, with concepts also from Karl Marx, Otto Hintze, Gustav Schmoller, Werner Sombart and Thorstein Veblen.
In 1858, upon the death of Johannes Müller, the chair of anatomy and physiology, which that man had held, was divided into a chair of human and comparative anatomy, which was given to Karl Bogislaus Reichert ( 1811 – 1883 ), and a chair of physiology, which naturally fell to Du Bois-Reymond.
Dunkerley went on to identify a wide range of philosophical influences upon the thinking of the intellectuals in the cabinet, ranging from post-structuralism to the works of Marxist thinkers Karl Marx, René Zavaleta Mercado and E. P.
Karl Marx thus established that, in a capitalist society, the creation of wealth is based upon " the paid and unpaid portions of labour are inseparably mixed up with each other, and the nature of the whole transaction is completely masked by the intervention of a contract, and the pay received at the end of the week "; and that:
A sentence of death by hanging is pronounced by a US War Crimes Tribunal upon Adolf Hitler's personal physician, 43-year old Karl Brandt.
The group originated within the " Revolutionary Tendency " of the Socialist Workers Party and, upon its expulsion from the SWP, it named itself " Spartacist " in 1964 in homage to the original Spartacist League in World War I Germany co-led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

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