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Hans Albert was born on 8 February, 1921 in Cologne, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany, is a German philosopher (1921–2023). Discover Hans Albert's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?

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Age 102 years old
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Born 8 February 1921
Birthday 8 February
Birthplace Cologne, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
Date of death 24 October, 2023
Died Place Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1921

Hans Albert (8 February 1921 24 October 2023) was a German philosopher.

Albert was born in Cologne, Germany, on 8 February 1921, the son of a teacher of Latin and history.

1950

In 1950 he earned a degree in business administration at the University of Cologne, followed by a PhD in social politics in 1952.

1952

From 1952–1958 he worked as an assistant at the research institute for social and administrative sciences at the university, where he also obtained a Dr. habil.

1955

After 1955, he had discussions with Paul Feyerabend, who in those times was a critical rationalist and an admirer of Karl Popper.

Their letters were later published.

1957

in social politics in 1957.

As a lecturer he read logic, theory of science and economics of the welfare state.

1958

Beginning in 1958 he participated in the Alpbacher Hochschulwochen (a summer conference in the Austrian alpine village of Alpbach), where he met Karl Popper after having studied and mostly embracing his philosophy.

1961

1961–1969 was the time of the so-called Positivismusstreit (positivism dispute), the debate between Karl Popper and Theodor W. Adorno concerning positivism within German sociology during the 1960s.

Albert participated at this meanwhile famous Tagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Conference of the German Society of Sociology) in 1961 in Tübingen.

In the beginning there was no dispute on positivism, because both Adorno and Popper were opposed to positivism.

The debate was more about the differences between social sciences and natural sciences and the status of values in the social sciences.

1963

He was professor of social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1963, and remained at the university until 1989.

His fields of research were social sciences and general studies of methods.

He was a critical rationalist, paying special attention to rational heuristics.

Albert was a strong critic of the continental hermeneutic tradition coming from Heidegger and Gadamer.

In 1963, Albert received the Social Sciences and General Studies of Methods chair (later named Sociology and Studies of Economics) at Wirtschaftshochschule Mannheim (later University of Mannheim).

In 1963, the debate was continued by Jürgen Habermas in the Festschrift für Adorno.

1964

In 1964, in the Soziologentag (Conference on Sociology) in Heidelberg, the debate grew into an excited discussion between Habermas and Albert.

1969

The dispute culminated in a collection of essays, published in 1969 and translated into several languages.

This dispute gained a broad audience.

1989

In 1989, Albert retired from active service as a professor emeritus, but continued writing books and giving lectures at many universities, such as the 1990 lectures at the University of Graz on Critical Rationalism, the 1995 Walter Adolf Lectures at Hochschule St. Gallen, and the 1998 Wittgenstein-Lectures at the University of Bayreuth (with Rainer Hegselmann) about critical rationalism.

Albert lived in Heidelberg with his Austrian wife; they had a son.

On 8 February 2021, Hans Albert reached 100 years of age, thus becoming a centenarian.

Albert died in Heidelberg on 24 October 2023, at age 102.

Albert developed Popper's critical rationalism into a concise, broad-ranging maxim, thereby extending it from a method to progress in science to one equally applicable in day-to-day heuristics.

To substantiate his approach, he provided evidence for his thesis that there is no field of human activities where one should not be critical.

Consequently, he advocated applying critical rationalism to the social sciences, especially to economics, politics, jurisprudence, and religion.

In his view, the attitude of criticism is one of the oldest European traditions (going back to the pre-Socratics), in comparison with other less critical traditions.

Before his many books were published, Albert was already known to a broader audience for his contributions to the positivism dispute, arguing against his opponents of the so-called Frankfurt School of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer at the Frankfurt Institute of Sociology.

His contributions included

Albert observed that new insights are often difficult to spread or proliferate.

He ascribed this phenomenon's cause to ideological obstacles, for which Albert coined the phrase "immunity against criticism".

Albert's well known Münchhausen trilemma is ironically named after Baron Munchausen, who allegedly pulled himself out of a swamp seizing himself by his shock of hair.

This trilemma rounds off the classical problem of justification in the theory of knowledge.

It concludes that all attempts to rationally justify or rather ultimately verify a thesis must inherently fail.

This verdict concerns not only deductive justifications, as many of his critics believe, but also inductive, causal, transcendental, and all otherwise structured justifications.

As Albert reasoned, they all will be in vain, since a justification inevitably faces one of three flaws:

Albert stressed repeatedly that there is no limitation of the Münchhausen trilemma to deductive conclusions.