Karl Popper

Date/Time

11/06/2016 (Saturday)

2.00 - 5.00 pm

Location
The Adelaide





Professor John Clarke will present a Saturday School:

Karl Popper on Science, the Open Society and the Open Universe

Popper is best known for his influential ideas on the philosophy of science, but his importance extends much more widely. His concept of the ‘open society’, written in the dark days of fascist tyranny, helped to re-define the ideals of democracy and freedom in the post-war period, and his views on science led to controversial speculations about consciousness and its evolution, about free will and determinism, and to the view that the universe as a whole is in some sense creative.