Popper (In Our Time)
1934 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Karl Popper whose ideas about science and politics robustly challenged the accepted ideas of the day. He strongly resisted the prevailing empiricist consensus that scientists' theories could be proved true.
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Around 1934
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)