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Title: Sir Karl Raimund Popper papers
Collection Number: 86039
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material: In
English
Date (inclusive): 1928-1995
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, phonotapes, phonorecords, and photographs, relating to philosophy,
the nature of knowledge, the philosophy of culture, the philosophy and methodology of science, and the philosophy of history
and the social sciences. Deacribed in two groups, original collection (boxes 1-463) and the incremental materials acquired
at a later date (boxes 464-583).
Collection Size:
575 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 2 card file boxes, 28 envelopes, 47 phonotape reels, 4 phonotape cassettes, 11 phonorecords
(248 linear feet)
Creator:
Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902-
The collection is open for research. Use copies of sound recordings are available for immediate use.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1986 with increments added at a later date.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Collection available on microfilm. Original collection (473 reels) and Incremental materials (91 reels)
[Identification of item], Sir Karl R. Popper papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
| 1902, July 28 | Born, Vienna, Austria |
| 1926 | Ph.D., University of Vienna |
| 1930 | Married Josefine Anne Henninger (1906-1985) |
| 1934 | Author, Logik der Forschung |
| 1930-1935 | Schoolteacher, Vienna |
| 1937-1945 | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Canterbury University College, University of New Zealand, Christchurch |
| 1945 | Author, The Open Society and Its Enemies |
| 1945-1949 | Reader in Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, England |
| 1949-1969 | Professor of Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London |
| 1954 | Author, Miseria dello storicismo |
| 1962 | Author, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge |
| 1965 | Knighted |
| 1972 | Author, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach |
| 1976 | Author, Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography |
| 1977 | Co-author (with John C. Eccles), The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism |
| 1979 | Author, Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie |
| 1982-1983 | Author, Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery |
| 1983 | Author, A Pocket Popper |
| 1984 | Author, Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt |
| 1986- | Head, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut fur Wissenschaftstheorie, Vienna |
Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, phonotapes, phonorecords, and photographs, relating to philosophy,
the nature of knowledge, the philosophy of culture, the philosophy and methodology of science, and the philosophy of history
and the social sciences. Most of collection also available on microfilm (564 reels). Sound use copies of sound recordings
available.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Civilization--Philosophy.
Conservatism.
History--Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophers.
Philosophy.
Phonorecords.
Phonotapes.
Science--Methodology.
Science--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Philosophy.