In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
One example: In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Solution is here: Literature
Explanation: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

Now, solve this: One of this author's works claims that no society can predict its future states of knowledge, thereby weakening the title theory. This author explained free will with a two-stage model in which quantum effects create a random set of new ideas and possible actions, and the mind exerts a "selective pressure" that eliminates all but one; that model was proposed in a book cowritten with John Eccles titled The Self and Its Brain. This author discussed the Quine-Duhem thesis in one work that claims that a theory with more general applications is less likely to be rejected in a test. One of this author's students attempted to reconcile his work with Thomas Kuhn and wrote abuot the falsification of research programs. For 10 points, name this teacher of Imre Lakatos who wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Solution:
Social Science