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"One of the main tasks for human reason is to make the universe we live in understandable to ourselves. This is the task of science. There are two different components of about equal importance in this enterprise. The first is poetic inventiveness ..."
– Karl Popper
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Important CR site
Thanks to Bruce Caithness, a site we should know about, run by Antoni Diller, a longtime promoter of non-justificationism. This should have been on the list of CR Resources years ago, how come nobody told me? What a shame that … Continue reading
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Guides and other e books
The Guide to The Logic of Scientific Discovery has been reloaded with some minor corrections, also the links from the table of contents now work. Other books are now available in addition to the five guides, including my MA thesis … Continue reading
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Beyond The Outsider
In “The Popular Popper, The Guide to The Open Society and Its Enemies” (2013) Rafe Champion mentions Bryan Magee’s attendance at Popper’s 1958 address, titled “Back to the Pre-Socratics”, to the Aristotelian Society in London. Magee relates this in Chapter … Continue reading
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How to Win a Debate
I’ve been reading Teachers Without Goals: Students Without Purposes by Henry J. Perkinson. I cannot recommend this book enough. The book totally embraces Karl Popper’s ideas as far as learning, and moreover, also embraces the concept of evolutionary epistemology. I … Continue reading
Popular Popper series complete
With the publication of the guide to Objective Knowledge overnight the five volumes of the Popular Popper series are now published on Amazon, going head to head with Mills and Boone in the $3.99 price bracket. The first, The Logic … Continue reading
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The Popular Popper Guide to The Open Society is here!
The third of the Popular Popper series has hit the streets, or at least the Kindles and cognate apps. Conjectures and Refutations is just about ready to load, then it takes a few hours or maybe a day to appear … Continue reading
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