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Popper Obituary, Harre (1994), p.  PAGE 3 The Independent (London); September 19, 1994; GAZETTE PAGE; Page 32; 2516 wordsHEADLINE: Obituary: Professor Sir Karl PopperBYLINE: ROM HARRE Karl Raimund Popper, philosopher: born Vienna 28 July 1902; Senior Lecturer, Canterbury University College, Christchurch, New Zealand 1937-45; Reader in Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics 1945-49, Professor of Logic and Scientific Method 1949-69 (Emeritus); FBA 1958; President, Aristotelian Society 1958- 59; President, British Society for the Philosophy of Science 1959-61; Kt 1965; FRS 1976; CH 1982; Guest Professor in the Theory of Science, University of Vienna 1986-94; Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1986-94; author of Logik der Forschung 1934 (revised 1966, 1984), The Open Society and its Enemies 1945 (revised 1966), The Poverty of Historicism 1957, The Logic of Scientific Discovery 1959, On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance 1961, Conjectures and Refutations 1963, Of Clouds and Clocks 1966, Objective Knowledge 1972, Unended Quest: an intellectual autobiography 1976, The Self and its Brain (with Sir John Eccles) 1977, Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery (edited by W.W. Bartley) 1982-83, A Pocket Popper 1983, Popper Selections 1985, A World of Propensities 1990; married 1930 Josefine Anna Henninger (died 1985); died Croydon 17 September 1994. KARL POPPER was one of the most widely read philosophers of the century. He achieved both professional eminence and vast popular esteem. Among philosophers he was known for his unremitting resistance to the simplistic reductionism of the Positivists. Among scientists he was admired for the clarity of his call for a rigorous rationality based on the unsentimental search for what would tend to prove ones pet ideas mistaken. But he was best known outside professional circles for his subtle and passionate defence of the democratic way against the tyranny of the state.