Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability" is one of the few philosophical ideas that physicists regularly mention. But science is far more complex than it suggests, says Robert P Crease As a ...

One of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, Sir Karl Popper founded the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in 1946. Critical rationalism was the cornerstone not only of his ...

Robert Matthews’s examination of Karl Popper’s criterion that scientific hypotheses are defined by their falsifiability, and of alternatives like Bayesian probability, provides an illuminating view ...

Could it be that the general interpretative framework of the standard model of quantum physics is not falsifiable as per Popper? For some philosophers of science, falsifiability is the fundamental ...